APPENDIX B

The Numbers, Grades, and Assignments of the Officers and Enlisted Men of the Army, and the Numbers, Kinds, and Strength of Organizations Pertaining to Each Branch of the Service (Par. 4c, National Defense Act, 41 Stat. L. 762).

APPENDIX B

The following statistical data are furnished in compliance with the provisions of the last sentence of section 4 (c) of the act of Congress approved June 4, 1920 (41 Stat. L. 762), reading as follows:

The Secretary of War shall annually report to Congress the numbers, grades, and assignments of the officers and enlisted men of the Army, and the number, kinds, and strength of organizations pertaining to each branch of the service.

In addition to the data called for by the act, the losses of the Army during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1936, in detail, are also shown.

AUTHORIZED STRENGTH OF THE ARMY

An act of Congress approved June 26, 1936 (Public, No. 824, 74th Cong.), provides that the authorized commissioned strength of the Regular Army be increased by 185, such increase to be allotted to the Corps of Engineers. Thus, with this increase, and including the five increments to the Air Corps, authorized by the act of Congress approved July 2, 1926 (44 Stat. L., pt. 2, 783), the maximum authorized commissioned strength for the fiscal year 1936 was 12,588. As War Department appropriations for the year, however, provided for an average of 12,000 officers only, and for a reduction to 11,750 by September 30, 1935, in the number of officers whose original commissions are dated prior to June 1, 1935, the following table shows the apportionment to the promotion-list arms and services on such a basis, and the authorized commissioned strength of the nonpromotion-list services:

Detailed from other arms or services and included in the figures for those arms or services.
Includes officers of the Philippine Scouts.

There were 825 warrant officers of all classes in active service at the beginning of the fiscal year 1936; 11 appointments were made during the year, 2 in the Army Mine Planter Service, and 9 others, including

2 band leaders; and 52 separations occurred, leaving 784 in active service on June 30, 1936, a net loss of 41. Of the 784 indicated, 216 were exempt from the provisions of the act of June 30, 1922, which limited the strength to 600, so that there were 32 available vacancies, one of which was in the position of band leader, at the close of the year. As the eligible list established in 1920 in connection with original appointments under the provisions of section 4a, act of June 4, 1920, became exhausted in September 1935, an examination was held during the first week of June 1936 with a view to establishing another eligible list. More than 2,000 applicants participated in that examination, the final results of which have not as yet been determined. An act of Congress approved April 14, 1936 (Private, No. 463, 74th Cong.), grants to the present leader of the Army Band the rank, pay, and allowances of a captain, and the privilege of retirement in that grade at such time as the President, in his discretion, may direct.

The acts of April 15, 1926 (44 Stat. L., pt. 2, 257), and July 2, 1926 (44 Stat. L., pt. 2, 783), authorized an enlisted strength of 131,240, exclusive of Philippine Scouts. However, for several years thereafter papropriations provided for an average of 118,750 men, exclusive of the Philippine Scouts; and current appropriations provide for an increase in the enlisted strength to an average of 165,000, not including the Philippine Scouts, funds being provided for 6,415 enlisted men of the latter.

ACTUAL STRENGTH OF THE ARMY

The actual strength of the Army on June 30, 1935, and June 30, 1936, by arms and services, is shown in the following table, including retired personnel on active duty:

1 Exclusive of 1 officer redetailed as an additional member of the War Department General Staff. Includes 1 attached.

Exclusive of 44 officers on duty with but not detailed in the General Staff Corps.

4 Exclusive of 47 officers on duty with but not detailed in the General Staff Corps. Includes 1 Philippine Scout officer, retired, on active duty.

Includes both commissioned and warrant officers.