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Types oj Military Servl e

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T H E W A R I )EPAH I MEN I

The Chief of Staff is the immediate adviser of the Secretary of War on all matters relating to the Military Establishment and is harged by the Secretary of War with the planning, development, and ex< ution of the military program. He causes the War Department neral Stall to prepare the necessary plans for recruiting, mobilizing, inizing, supplying, equipping, and training the Army of the I nit I States for use in the national defense and for the subsequent demobiliation. As the agent, and in the name of the Secretary of War. he ssu< such orders as will insure that the plans of the War Department are harmoniously ex< :uted by all agencies of the Military Establishment, and that the military program is carried out spe< lil) I efficiently. The Chief of Staff, in addition to his duties as such, is, in \ ice, by dii :tion of the President, the Commanding General of the Field I and in that capacity dire ts the field operations and the neral ining of the several armies, of the overseas forces, and of GHQ, that is ' ' neral Headquarters units. He continues to exercise command > the field for s after the outbreak of war until such time as tin f •dent shall have sp< ifi illy designated a commanding general tl reof. A 1 >eputy ('hief of Staff assists the ('hief of Staff and acts for him ii his absence. lie is charg( I with general supervision over the activities f all of the War Department General Staff. * rdinarily in time of peace there is but one Deputy, but sine the Presidential declaration of an unlimited emei ency two additional I iti ha\ b n appointed. One is primarily charged with m tion and ipply matters and the thud with questions relating t <

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The Wai Department General Staff is divided into fivt lion; G I. or the first division, is the Personnel Division, It is chai ii neral, with tho duti< which relate to the personnel of the Arm) as individuals. For i ample, it is charged with the preparation i plans and polici( md the upervision oi activities d ilin with th urement, cla ification, a gnment, promotion, trans f < ret v • Hi, and di harge ol ill p ' onnel of the \ n m of the United . < G 2 i \\K Military [ntelli nee Division, It is charged with th ;iiii which relate to the coll< tion, iluation, ind dis emination

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