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 7. Rating of Officers:

A uniform system of rating officers was developed. This rating system was first installed in the Officers' Training Camps as an aid in selecting candidates for commissions. Later it was used in selecting candidates for Officers' Training Schools. Now its use is universal both in America and in France as a means of securing every three months, a rating on every officer as an aid in determining promotion, demotion, discharge, and appointments to the Officers' Reserve Corps.

8. Commissioned Personnel Specifications:

Definitions of duties and qualifications of no less than 500 different kinds of officers in the various arms and branches of the service have been prepared, after ascertaining the answer to the question, " Just what does he do?" These commissioned personnel specifications are for use in recruiting officer material, in selecting men for training as officers, and making assignments. Statistical studies have been made of the relative significance of age, education, civilian earnings, intelligence and other qualifications of officers in the different branches of the service.

9. Cooperation with the Air Service:

The methods of selecting aviators were investigated and checked by reference to the actual success or failure of the pilots. An improved system of tests for aviation candidates was introduced and a new program of examination and selection installed.

10. Cooperation with the Provost Marshal General's Office:

Plans for securing classificatory information regarding all registrants were submitted to the Provost Marshal General and were partially embodied in the draft questionnaire.

11. Development Battalions:

The Committee cooperated closely with the General Staff and the Surgeon General's Office in preparing and introducing the plans for segregating, sorting, training, and utilizing the partially fit.

12. Cooperation with the Surgeon General's Office:

Some assistance was given to the Psychology Section of the Surgeon General's Department in devising and 7