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MILITARY ORGANIZATION is to make the rank of these officers correspond to that of officers in other branches of the service.

The Air Service consists of one Chief of Air Service with the rank of Major-General, one Assistant with the rank of Brigadier-General, 1,514 officers, and 16,000 enlisted men.    The infantry consists of 110,000 enlisted men and 4,200 officers; the cavalry of 20,000 enlisted men and 950 officers; and the field artillery of 37,000 enlisted men and 1,900 officers. The coast artillery consists of 30,000 enlisted men and 1,200 officers.

There is an Officers' Reserve Corps for the purpose of providing a reserve of officers available for military service when needed. Any person who has been an officer of the Army between April 6, 1917, and June 30, 1918, or an officer of the Regular Army at any time, may be appointed as Reserve Officer.

There are Reserve Officers' Training Corps, to be established in such civilian universities and colleges as are required to provide instruction in military tactics. Camps are maintained for the further practical instruction of the members of the Reserve Officers Training Corps for a period not exceeding six weeks in any one year. The President has power to appoint as Reserve Officers graduates of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps.

There is an Enlisted Reserve Corps, which consists of persons voluntarily enlisted therein for a period of three years, except in cases of persons who served in the Army and Navy and Marine Corps between April 6, 1917, and Nov. 11, 1918. These may enlist for one year periods. Organizations of the Enlisted Reserve Corps may be formed by the President into tactical organizations similar to those of the Regular Army and composed, as far as practicable, of men residing in the same locality.

The status of the National Guard was changed so as to bring it, in emergencies, directly into the national service. Men enlisted in the National Guard are required to sign an enlistment contract and subscribe to an oath of enlistment under the authority of the Federal Government. Officers of the National Guard must be selected from the enlisted men of the National Guard; from among the officers active or retired, reserve officers, and former officers of the Army and Navy or Marine Corps; and from enlisted men and former enlisted men of the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps who have been honorably discharged. They may also be selected from graduates of the United States Military and Naval Academies and from graduates of universities, colleges, and of officerstraining camps where they received instructions and supervision under an officer of the Regular Army.

Affairs affecting the National Guard are under the supervision of the Military Bureau of the War Department, the Chief of which is appointed by the President. He holds office for four years and has the rank and pay and allowance of an officer of the Regular Army.

The measure revised the provisions in regard to the conduct of court-martials and outlines the jurisdiction and procedure under which they will be held.  MILITARY POLICE, men who maintain civil order in the army.  MILITARY SERVICE INSTITUTIONOF THE UNITED STATES' is controlled by officers of the United States Army in association with the National Guard and others, and was founded for the discussion of military views and for professional improvement which should benefit United States military interests. In 1877 Generals Fry, Stanley, and Rodenbough sent out a call to army 