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personnel, Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., a reserve, trained and in training, composed of officers and enlisted men. Such 

 reserve will be called upon to furnish, under direction from the Chief of Staff, psychological personnel, either perma- 

 nently or temporarily, for such other points and at such times as necessity for the same may arise. 



Chiefs of staff corps, department commanders, and commanding officers of posts or stations may make official 

 requests for permanent or temporary psychological personnel for detail at schools, camps, or stations as necessity 

 arises. 



Psychological examinations of line officers will be made only on the recommendations of commanding officers, 

 and of officers of staff corps, upon request of the respective chiefs of staff corps. 



Psychological examinations for all candidates for officers' training camps will be held where sufficient psycho- 

 logical personnel is present and where time may permit the results of such examinations to be placed in the hands of 

 organization commanders before final recommendations on candidates are made. These results will be used only as 

 assisting guides in making selections. No particular psychological rating shall be declared as the minimum to be 

 attained by any such candidates. Directors of training camps may request that psychological examinations of stu- 

 dents be held where ratings may be deemed of value. 



Such recruits arriving at depot brigades or other points where Psychological Division is established as may, in 

 the opinion of the commanding officer, require such examination, will be examined psychologically and during their 

 two weeks' period of quarantine only. Subsequent to that period such examination will be held for groups when 

 necessary, and individually, by direction of commanding officers as they shall nominate. Organization com- 

 manders and camp or post surgeons where psychological examiners may be present will recommend when necessary 

 that special examinations of particular cases be held. 



Under direction of cantonment commanders any special branch or office of the cantonment organization may 

 request the assistance of a psychological examiner where it is deemed his service would be of value. Commanding 

 officers of development battalions will requisition for these examiners whenever necessary. 



Commanding officers other than cantonment commanders may make requisition for psychological examiners 

 from time to time as necessity arises. 



Camp or post surgeons under whose jurisdiction the psychological personnel shall fall will be responsible to their 

 respective commanding officers that the examinations are properly held; that psychological examiners reduce the 

 time occupied in individual examinations to the lowest practicable minimum, in the majority of cases, by question- 

 ing and by personal observation solely, particularly where recommendation for transfer to a development battalion 

 is the obvious solution, and that they resort to detailed standard psychological tests only in the more doubtful cases; 

 that the reports of examinations be promptly made; that judicious coordination be established between the psycho- 

 logical and psychiatric divisions to the end that the facilities of both may be used to obtain the most prompt action 

 on low mentality cases. 



Psychological reports where ratings only are given will be forwarded to personnel adjutants for their use in connec- 

 tion with other qualification card information in allotting recruits to organizations and further by such adjutant to proper 

 organization commanders for the information of the latter. If this be without the depot brigade the ratings should ac- 

 company the men concerned wherever practicable. The information thus conveyed will be considered as an assisting 

 and accelerating guide to commanders in assigning their men for particular duties and in training. Attention is here 

 invited to the fact that it may be possible for regimental commanders to perfect and' produce well-balanced organizations 

 by judicious use of psychological ratings, at time of incoming large drafts and in connection with the assignment of men 

 to companies; and possibly by company commanders, by special grouping with the idea of speeding up training. 



Where, in addition to ratings, psychological reports recommend discharge, individual examination or assignment to 

 development battalions, camp or post surgeons, under direction of commanding officers, will provide for special examina- 

 tions of the individuals so reported, before disability boards. Such disability boards shall be composed of medical 

 officers not all of whom shall be of any one class of specialists, as for example, psychiatrists, and in addition wherever 

 practicable, of one experienced line officer. 



Psychological reports shall be placed in the hands of organization commanders at the earliest practicable date, in 

 order that their ratings may be made of value. 



In special cases, where time does not permit that complete individual examinations be made, psychological exam- 

 iners will make for the information of the surgeon and personnel officer, some such provisional qualification card report 

 as "illiterate"' or otherwise, as the case may be. 



Under direction of commanding officers, the psychological personnel present will be supplemented when necessary 

 by enlisted members of the Medical or Sanitary Corps, who shall remain on psychological duty only in the rush of 

 examination of large groups and while making up rush reports on the same. 



Commanding officers shall provide quarters for the psychological division while bearing in mind that their principal 

 need is for one or two large rooms to hold groups of approximately 100 men during examinations. If need be the com- 

 manding officers of base or other hospitals will be called upon for temporary space, or directors of the Y. M. C. A.'s 

 temporarily, where no other space is available. Minor office space and individual examination rooms will be furnished 

 in available situations. Centralization of the psychological division in post or cantonment is desirable but not obliga- 

 tory. If necessary, tentage will be used. 



When deemed for the benefit of the service at large, the Surgeon General may request that commanding officers of 

 stations where psychological examinations have been held, be called upon for recommendation toward the improvement 

 of the psychological division and its service. 



