Who's Who and What's What in the Army 



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1 — Infantry Insignia 

 2— Cavalry 

 3— Field Artillery 

 4 — Coast Artillery 

 5 — Engineer'Corps 



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6 — Signal Corps 

 7 — Aviation Section 

 8 — Ordnance Department 

 9 — Quartermaster Corps 

 10— Medical Corps 



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11— Dental Corps 

 12 — Veterinary Corps 

 13 — General Officers of the Line 

 14 — General Staff Officers 

 15 — Adjutant General's Department 



We now come to the subdivision upon which the entire theory 

 of army organization is based. It is the infantry regiment 

 which advances and wrests contested territory from the 

 enemy. The other arms are subordinate to the infantry and 

 are built up only with an eye to assisting the infantry in these 

 tactics in any way circumstances may suggest. The battal- 

 ions making up the infantry regiment are in charge of a major 



Squad Squad Squad 



I st Platoon l na Platoon 3 rd Platoon 4 th Platoon 



Company 



At the bottom of every army is the private, and the group of 

 six or eight privates which make up the squad. No group of 

 men can be together without one of them being responsible. 

 The corporal, who is simply some designated soldier in the 

 squad, is a general leading a small army. He in turn is 

 subject to the orders of the platoons commanders, who are 

 lieutenants and sergeants. A captain commands the company 



The War Department an- 

 nounced recently that a 

 change was to take place 

 in our army organization. 

 The large units of th 2 old 

 organization were too un- 

 wieldy for trench warfare 

 and they have been broken 

 up into smaller ones, more 

 flexible and easier to 

 command. This explains 

 the new army corps unit 

 in the present system 



The automobile has had a tremendous influence in 

 making present-day warfare as mighty as it is. 

 Supplies are now brought up in great motor-trucks 

 four times faster than they could be with army mules 



Shoulder straps which commissioned 

 officers wear: 1. General; 2, Lieu- 

 tenant General; 3, Major General; 

 4, Brigadier General; 5, Colonel; 



