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 administering the intelligence tests for enlisted men and officers. The psychologists in turn have tested 1,716,000 soldiers and furnished the personnel officers with their intelligence ratings to assist in making assignments, balancing units, and selecting men for special responsibilities.

13. Cooperation with the Navy:

At the time of the armistice, representatives of this Committee were assisting the Navy and the Marine Corps to prepare and install a complete personnel classification program to correspond with the Army system. In addition, one member of the Committee has done valuable work in refining methods of selecting and training men for special duties in the Navy, such as the work of the fire-control squad, the gun-pointer, the hydrophone listener, and the lookout.

14. The War Service Exchange:

This branch of the Committee was established January 18, 1918, to receive and classify applications of persons desiring to serve the Government and to refer them to the branches of the service needing them, and to cooperate with other agencies in locating and supplying men needed for special purposes by the various branches of the service. This organization relieved high officials of the War Department of the necessity of devoting valuable time to the interviewing of the many influential men who came to Washington to offer their services to the Government. It also cared for a total of about one hundred and ten thousand written proffers of service. It placed approximately ten thousand men, including many of superior attainments.

15. Personnel Work in the American Expeditionary Forces:

Members of the Committee studied the personnel needs of the A. E. F., and, with the cordial approval of General Pershing, established there a personnel organization similar to that in America. The Officers' Qualification Cards have had their widest usefulness over-seas, in supplying replacements and in locating rare specialists in emergencies.

16. British Experience:

Detailed study was made of the working of the British personnel organization, which in some respects is far