Show FP PUN i am m OF CIVILIAN ARMY war college heads prepare for handling of great volunteer force RAPID TRAINING PROPOSED special attention given to selection a of officers qualified by expert enee ence to lead men properly Wits washington hIngton the war college division of tho the general staff of ilia united states aricy lins has complete coni pleto plans prepared v apa red for tho the mobilization of a citizens aminy these plans were completed some time ngo ago la in anticipation of tile the time thile when the united states might bo be called upon to epter into hostilities against a first class power these plans were based it Is said aid up ali n lie possibility that the drat call cal I 1 for volunteers might bo be for meni men tho the war college recently prepared an off lelal paper dealing with the lie raising of a volunteer army under existing laws and under contemporaneous conditions therewith says gays ilia war college it has heretofore been assumed that in the event of a war with it a first class power tho the united states would require not less chaa baa half a million of men inen for tile first line behind which could ile bo prepared the greater gi cater army of citizen soldiers upon ivan whom choin our main reliance for national defense Is conditionally placed subject to presidents call tile the organization of volunteer armies can only be undertaken following ing the lie presidential proclamation stating the number needed and on tills this subject the war college says volunteer forces forced may bo be raised organized and maintained only during tile tho existence or imminence of war ind and only after congress shall have authorized zed the he president to ralso raise such forces congress could however by legislative enactment authorize tile the president to raise such forces in time if df peace when so authorized the president will hlll issue ills his proclamation stating the number of men desired for each eccli arm arps or department within such limits ais as may be fixed by law it Is ible that the proclamation wll will also re pite the ilia causes that make the call necessary and alad will state that the enlisted men shall be taken as far as practicable from tho ilia several states territories and Dir district strict of columbia in proportion to the respective populations thereof following tho the call of the president for or volunteers the secretary of war notifies the governors etc its as in a call for or militia luford informing ing them of tho the quo td id for their respective states the alie existing militia organizations that will be received into the volunteers tile the new organizations that it Is desired to calse and tile the maximum and minimum strength of organizations all terms of enlistments it Is pointed out will lie be the same same us its that for the regular army exclusive of reserve rioted periods and no person can bo be enlisted for tho the volunteer forces who Is g not effective and able bodied and who la Is not within tile ages stipulated for or that service under the law as it exists at the time of the presidents call neither can any man be enlisted who does not speak the english language while persons under eighteen years of ago age can be accepted only with tho ilia signed approval and consent sf of the parent or guardian of that recruiting rendezvous and depots the war college continues with a view to recruiting and maki tattling all organizations of tho the land forces as near their proscribed prescribed strength as practicable tho the necessary rendezvous and depots will bo be established by the secretary of war and wilt will bo be directly controlled by him here tho ilia recruits will bo be enlisted and trained for t the lie purI purposes loses of In instruction and discipline the troops at the T recruit depots may be organized into companies and battalions at the discretion of the secretary of war tile tho noncommissioned commissioned DOn officers and privates MR bo be of such grades and numbers as the president may inny prescribe it Is apparent that tho the recruits nt at tho the rendezvous und and depots are intended to forin fonn a reserve battalion for ench each regiment or equivalent thereof of regulars and volunteers olun only for the tet also provides that tit in order to maintain the land militia organization at their maximum strength the recruit rendezvous and depots in any state or territory may nt at tho the request of the governor thereof enlist and train recruits tor for land militia in fix the service of the united states from such state or territory all the officers required for or such auch recruit rendezvous and depots will be volunteers of the proper arm of at iho appointment of officers OHl cert all volunteer officers aro are appointed sy y tho president but tile the number and grado grade of buch officers shall not exceed the number and grade of like officers provided for a like force of the regular lar army and they will bo be subject to such assignment to duty and transfers ns as tho the president way may direct in order that tho the lives of those patriotic citizens v who ho may volunteer volun teen for or service may be safeguarded and co conserved U and not risked under perona I 1 lacking in experience in the care vt soldiers in camp and in battle tho i c war department has decided and nn an lioun ced that the lie appointment to volunteer yo commissions will be mad from those classes of our citizens wile who have had such experience and thai from froin those classes the lie selections celec tlona will wil bo be nindo made in tin following order W A persons who have lind find P experience ns as commissioned ollI cers I 1 in if lh army of the united states and ex cx officers of volunteers of proved experience peri Ver lence ence and efficiency 10 11 non off leers ol 01 ex in ili tile regular army W 0 persona who have lind had expert enco na as officers officer s in the 13 Iler persons sons who have qualified fled I 1 according to law under prescribed examinations ami nations to test their illness fitness to command and control men in the field M E graduates of education ill institutions or of military standing to which regular aminy officers are de tailed as professors of science under the law P F should the necessary number r of volunteer officers required not bo be furnished from the above nuovo classes tho the war department will give civilians locking lacking in actual military military experience an opportunity to appear for examination to test their fitness for coat commissions s j before hoards boards which the war d department part parti ment nent proposes to create 1 in tica tho several states begin training at once under the caption training of un tile tho war collego college pamphlet reads tile the training of voll volunteer inteer troops must inest begin without delay after their induction into the service no tiros must bo be lost it should begin at tile company rendezvous without waiting for complete mobilization under our traditional policy of relying principally for defense upon citizen sol diers the larger part of our land forces will not be fully trained on the outbreak of war it Is more than probable that we shall havo have to employ some moine of them with little or no train ing its as soon as they can bo bi assembled in suitable units tile the amount and character of the training ining will at first bo be directly proportional to the time line consumed provided a rational scheme be followed how much tinte time will be avol available lable it la Is impossible to predict it Is reasonable to assume however that in the tha event of a war with nn an oversea enemy it will be the he time required for our enemy to establish at leibst least a partial control of the sea sufficient to open tile lie way for landing of expeditionary forces any system of training however good in itself will tall fall to bring the desired results unless there are avail able ablen a sufficient number of trained instructors tors officers and noncommissioned gulcera cera the blind cannot lead the blind Ile referring ferring to the mobilization of volunteer armies tile the war college points out that all points of mobilization have been selected one in each state of the union and that these preliminary arrangements have been approved by both the federal and state authorities these plans provide for the necessary ne buildings tor for water sup ply and an ali other essential needs which will arise |