GENERAL ORDERS, WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, May 15, 1915. Paragraphs 33 and 35, General Orders, No. 70, November 18, 1913, War Department, relating to the appointment of honor graduates of institutions of learning as second lieutenants in the Army, are amended to read as follows: 33. Those graduates who have been reported in the past as honor graduates of institutions formerly designated as "Distinguished Institutions" who become candidates for commissions in the Army and make a general average of $5 per cent or more on the competitive mental examination, and who fulfill the other requirements for commissions in the Army, will be placed in a special class. 35. The President of the United States authorizes the announcement that an appointment as second lieutenant in the Regular Army will be awarded annually to an honor graduate of each of the institutions designated as "Distinguished Colleges," under the provisions of paragraph 6, General Orders, No. 70, November 18, 1913, War Department, provided sufficient vacancies exist after the appointment of graduates of the Military Academy at West Point, and the successful competitors in the annual examination of en listed men. The honor graduate of a “Distinguished College" must be a member of the class graduating from that institution in the year in which his appointment to the Army is made. He will not be required to take any mental examination. [2042931, A. G. O.] BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: OFFICIAL: TASKER H. BLISS, Brigadier General, Acting Chief of Staff. H. P. MCCAIN, The Adjutant General. GENERAL ORDERS, No. 28. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, May 18, 1915. I.The following regulations governing the School of Musketry, Fort Sill, Okla., are announced: 1. The School of Musketry shall be a part of the command of Fort Sill, Okla. 2. OBJECT. The object of the School of Musketry is to train officers and noncommissioned officers for their important duties as fire leaders in battle and to provide trained instructors for regimental schools of practical musketry. 3. PERSONNEL. The personnel of the school will consist of the commandant, the assistant commandant, the school staff, the school detachment, the school troops, and such officers and enlisted men as may be detailed to attend the courses of instruction at the school. 4. THE COMMANDANT. 4. The commandant of the school will be an officer specially selected by the Secretary of War and charged with the administration of the school. Appropriations for the support of the school and for the purchase of school property will be disbursed on vouchers approved by him. b. He will make application for the detail of suitable officers for the school staff and shall assign officers so detailed to such duty incident to the school work and its administration as may be necessary. He will make application, also, for the detail or assignment of suitable noncommissioned officers and other enlisted men for the school detachment and shall assign them to specific duties in the detachment. c. He will supervise the training of the school troops and the methods of instruction in the school courses and make requisition for articles and equipment to carry out the purposes of the school. d. On the 1st of August of each year the commandant will make a report upon the progress and needs of the school, and on the same date he will submit a detailed program of instruction covering the courses to be given during the ensuing year. When this program has been approved, it will be published for the guidance of the school and the information of the students. 2 e. At the end of each course, the commandant will submit a report setting forth, briefly, the work accomplished during the course and showing the names of officers and noncommissioned officers who nave satisfactorily completed the course. f. In case of the absence or disability of the commandant, his duties shall be performed by the assistant commandant. 5. THE ASSISTANT COMMANDANT. The assistant commandant will be an officer specially selected by the Secretary of War for the duty and will assist the commandant in the administration and instruction work of the school, act for the commandant in his absence and perform such other duties connected with the school as may be assigned to him. 6. SCHOOL STAFF. The school staff will consist of all officers, not students, on duty with the School of Musketry. It will include the secretary, the statistical officer, the range officer, the directors, and the instructors. 7. THE SECRETARY. The secretary will be the custodian of the books and records of the school and will disburse the school funds under the direction of the commandant. He will command the school detachment and the student companies, be in charge of the library, and will conduct the correspondence of the school. 8. THE STATISTICAL OFFICER. The statistical officer will keep the records of all firing and will make such computations thereon as may be required. 9. THE RANGE OFFICER. The range officer will establish and maintain the targets. range guards, and range communications on all ranges and firing grounds used by the school and perform such other duties connected with the ranges and firing grounds as may be directed by the commandant. 3 10. THE ORDNANCE OFFICER. The ordnance officer will be an officer of the Ordnance Department, specially selected by the Secretary of War to perform the duties of ordnance supply officer for the School of Musketry and the School of Fire for Field Artillery. He will be in charge of the storehouses, workshops and property used in common by the two schools and be directly under the commanding officer of Fort Sill, Okla. 11. DIRECTORS AND INSTRUCTORS. 4. The directors will be assigned by the commandant to the several departments into which the school is divided and, under the supervision of the assistant commandant, will have charge of the instruction and experimental work of the school. They will be assisted by such number of instructors as may be assigned by the commandant to their departments. 6. The instructors, under the supervision of the directors, will have charge of the instruction work and be assisted by such sergeant-instructors as may be available for that duty. e. When practicable, directors and instructors will be senior to student officers, but whether senior or junior, directors and instructors will be accorded the respect due to their positions. d. Except when, in the opinion of the commandant, the exigencies of the service demand a departure from the rule, directors, instructors, and student officers will be exempt from all ordinary garrison duties and routine, from attendance at the garrison school for officers, from court-martial duty, and from all such drills and ceremonies as are not included in the course of instruction, and, in general, from all duties which would interfere with the performance of their functions in the school. 12. SCHOOL BOARD. The school board will consist of the commandant, the assistant commandant and the directors, with the secretary as recorder. The board will arrange the program of instruction and will prescribe the character and scope of the examinations and pass upon questions of proficiency. It will constitute a permanent board for such investigations and research work as may be referred to the school hw proper authority. |