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Types of Military Service

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The remaining War Department chiefs have no combat functions

They head departments that have purely administrative or servia functions, and therefore will he passed over with a mere indication o their respective services. The office of the Adjutant General is the one through which all current business is transacted and where old records are filed. The Chief of Finance is responsible for budgeting, disbursing, and accounting oi all W a r Department funds. The Inspector General inquires into and reports on all matters which affect the efficiency and economy of the Army, such as discipline, living- conditions, and morale of A r m y personnel, and the proper expenditure of funds and property. The Judge Advocate General is the legal adviser of the entire military establishment and heads the system of military justice. T h e Medical Department is charged with maintaining the health of personnel from the time they enter the A r m y until they leave. It provides necessary medical, surgical, and dental care, administers military hospitals, transports sick and wounded, gives veterinary service for public animals, and inspects all meat and dairy products, products. T h e O r d n a n c e Department is responsible for the development and procurement of all types of military weapons. T h e Q u a r t e r m a s t e r General's department procures, stores, and issues all supplies common to more than one arm, where not covered by another department. These include, chiefly, food, clothing, and a kinds of transport. It also supervises the transport of troops and supplies. T h e Provost .Marshal General, whose office has only recently been revived, is charged with raising and training the general Military Police for< i of the Army.

MOBILIZATION PROCEDURE

From the place of induction selectees are sent to a Reception Center. They are corps area installations and the number varies in M h corps area from two to four. It is probable that additional ones will be required. Wvvv the men are "processed," that is. furnished

certain items oi clothing and equipment, inoculated and vaccinated and

lassilied, after which they are given a tentative branch assignment preliminary to being senl to the proper Training ("cuter. Effort is mad. to exp lite passage through the Reception Center.

()]r ,,f the important operations at the Reception Center is classi fication of the individual. The greal demand for \ arious types of occu pai onal specialists makes it imperative that full advantage be taken ,f the individual's civilian experience to meel militan needs fht