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'''FIGURE 4. Spanish Army Central General Staff (U/OU)''' (chart)

who heads the office that monitors administrative activities of the legion and airborne troops; the Subinspector of Superior Premilitary Instruction, who coordinates the activities of the program for obtaining reserve officers and noncommissioned officers with offices handling activities of the arms and services; the Director of the Superior School of the Army, who also controls the army's general staff school; and the office which directs a program of education and recreation for the soldiers. The Chief of the Central General Staff is assisted by two directors general - the Director General of Organization and Field Operations and the Director General of Instruction and Training - each of whom is roughly comparably to a deputy chief of staff in the US Army staff system and is assisted by a secretariat and five numbered sections. Various administrative and service functions normally performed by an army general staff are handled by offices subordinate to the Under Secretary of the Army. These functions include supervision of the activities normally considered non-tactical, such as procurement and disposal of materiel, administration, and accounting of funds. The undersecretary is primarily concerned with laws, orders, and matters of commercial interest and service support. He supervises the activities of the Comptroller General; the Auditor General; the Judge Advocate; the Directors General of Industry and Materiel, Construction, Social Welfare, Disabled Veterans Affairs, Recruiting and Personnel, and Services (which include quartermaster, medical, veterinary, pharmacy); and a number of miscellaneous offices, procurement and disposal boards, and the army museum.

A decree dated 2 November 1973 established a reorganization plan for the Ministry of Army. Under this plan, which will be implemented gradually during 1974, the basic organizational structure of the ministry will consist of the Central General Staff, a Subsecretariat, an Army Material Headquarters, and the Directorate General of the Civil Guard, which was under the Ministry of Interior during peacetime until November 1973.

The Central General Staff (headed by a lieutenant general) will consist of the Subsecretariat, Directorate of Organization and Operations, Directorate of Supply Services, Directorate of Maintenance Service, Directorate of Instruction, Recruitment and Mobilization Headquarters, and the Chiefs of Branches of the Arms and Services and the Army Superior School. The Subsecretariat, each directorate, and the Recruitment and Mobilization Headquarters will be headed by a major general.

The Subsecretariat will consist of a General Secretariat, Personnel Directorate, and the Economic

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