2 Each headquarters detachment will consist of 14 privates assigned to duty as follows: The enlisted men required for machine-gun platoons and headquarters detachments in the case of regiments organized as in columns A and C, will be assigned to troops by regimental commanders and will be additional in their respective troops, but no troop will contain more men in any grade than are authorized by the act of Congress approved February 2, 1901. In the case of regiments (Seventh and Eighth Cavalry) designated for station in the Philippine Islands the enlisted men required for machine-gun platoons and headquarters detachments will be detailed from troops as the regimental commanders may direct and will not be additional in their respective troops. a Not included in regimental total. See explanatory paragraph below. Each headquarters detachment will consist of 1 sergeant, detailed as trumpeter sergeant and orderly to the colonel. 16 privates (13 in Porto Rico Regiment), assigned to duty as follows: At regimental headquarters The enlisted men required for machine-gun platoons, mounted scouts, and headquarters detachments in the case of regiments organized as in columns A, C, and D will be assigned to companies by regimental commanders and will be additional in their respective companies, but no company will contain more men in any grade than are authorized by the act of Congress approved February 2, 1901. In the case of regiments (Eighth, Thirteenth, Fifteenth, and Twenty-fourth Infantry) designated for station in the Philippine Islands, the enlisted men required for machine-gun platoons, mounted scouts, and headquarters detachments will be detailed from companies as the regimental commanders may direct and will not be additional in their respective companies. a Twenty-eight additional men for each battery armed with 4.7-inch gun or howitzer or 6-inch howitzer. Each headquarters detachment will consist of 2 sergeants, detailed at regimental headquarters 1 in charge of scouts. 1 as signaler and telephone operator. 8 corporals, 4 detailed at each battalion headquarters 1 as signaler and telephone operator. 3 as artillery scouts. 3 musicians, detailed-. 1 at regimental headquarters. 1 at each battalion headquarters. 20 privates, detailed At regimental headquarters 3 as artillery scouts. 1 as assistant to signaler sergeant. 1 as horseshoer. 1 as saddler. 2 as drivers for reel cart. At each battalion headquarters 3 as artillery scouts. 1 as assistant to signaler corporal. 2 as drivers for reel cart. The enlisted men required for headquarters detachments will be assigned to batteries by regimental commanders and 5 will be additional in their respective batteries, but no battery will contain more men in any grade than are authorized by the act of Congress approved January 25, 1907. COAST ARTILLERY CORPS. Coast Artillery Corps noncommissioned staff Sergeants major, senior grade Master electricians. Engineers Electrician sergeants, first class. Electrician sergeants, second class. Master gunners.. Sergeants major, junior grade Firemen 14 bands (to be organized as provided for Cavalry) of 28 enlisted men each 170 companies of 104 enlisted men each. Total number of enlisted men in Coast Artillery 21 26 60 74 74 42 42 60 392 17,680 18.471 6 ADDITIONAL STRENGTH. a. For 4 troops of Cavalry at Fort Myer, 2 corporals and 18 privates each; for 1 squadron (4 troops) of Cavalry, 4 corporals and 72 privates, when stationed at Fort Yellowstone, Wyo.; for 2 troops of Cavalry, while on duty in Yosemite National Park, Cal., 10 privates each; for 2 companies of Infantry, 1 sergeant, 1 corporal, and 1 private each, while on duty at the School of Musketry, Presidio of Monterey, Cal.; to provide noncommissioned officers for duty with the Organized Militia, 115 sergeants, to be assigned to companies of Infantry and batteries of Field Artillery, as prescribed in orders from the War Department; to provide a nɔncommissioned officer for duty with Apache Indian prisoners of war, 1 sergeant for Battery C, Fifth Field Artillery; for each Infantry company, while stationed at Fort Jay, N. Y., 1 sergeant, 2 corporals, and 4 privates. Total additional... b. For each company of Infantry and each troop of Cavalry, except in organizations maintained at the statutory maximum, 7 privates; for each battery of Field Artillery, 12 privates; for each company of Coast Artillery and each company of Engineers, 5 privates. The total number of these additional privates at recruit depots and recruit depot-posts or en route to organizations shall not, however, exceed STAFF DEPARTMENTS, ETC. United States Military Academy. Signal Corps (including 36 master signal electricians) Post commissary sergeants.. 326 3,925 501 1.212 730 203 Post quartermaster sergeants.. 200 Indian scouts.... 75 Recruiting parties, recruit depots, and unassigned recruits in excess of vacancies and equal to 4 per cent of the authorized strength of organizations serving beyond the limits of the United States, estimated... 3,075 United States Military Prison Guards. 320 583 Total staff, etc.... 6,899 Organizations under orders to leave the United States for service in Hawaii Territory and the Panama Canal Zone may be increased one month before departure, to the strength prescribed herein for the respective arm of the service. [1882632, A. G. O.] II. By direction of the President, paragraph I, General Orders, No. 138, War Department, October 9, 1911, publishing the organization of the enlisted strength of the Army; and paragraph 1, General Orders, No. 112, War Department, June 19, 1906, and clauses a and b, section 1, paragraph II, General Orders, No. 149, War Department, July 30, 1910, providing for the strength of machine-gun platoons, are rescinded. [1882632, A. G. O.] |