Show IW w s U Lt S. S Bluffing k Heres Heres Here's I 1 r Story of Army's s sr r L I S S 5 I 1917 ARMY S 5 1 MARINES S S t 1 TOTAL TOTI fiS S f A I II I S President Wilson's Wilsons order naming new divisions a and d brigade generals completes the the i preparations for training Americas America's new national arm army Vv With th the junior officers officers' graduation tion from training train train- traIning train traIn- training ing camps it turns the United Stales into a real military power power power- Germany thought we were bluffing called us and finds we hold the hand When we went to war our total armed forces were men Today we have And we have trained the men who will train the next mil mu- lion America has performed S the most gi gi- gigantic gigantic S gantic feat of military preparedness in history It has made strides believed impossible in putting effective force against the In April the regular army consisted of officers and men officers res reserve corps 2000 the national guard the navy naty the marine FORCE 5 I 7 S REGULARS t u. u NAVY S MARINES J S L TOTAL WI REST 5 NEW NATIONAL ARt iV 4 I L. I duP Ii i J c 4 S 7 I y- y S pJ I corps and there were less than naval militiamen The total forces numbered I The regular amy and the national guard were ordered recruited to war I strength the strength the army to men the guard to a total of I The regulars reached their quota quoi in August having added men in l' l four lr months The national guard muster mustered mus mus- ter terM d into federal service August 5 6 numb rl approximately men and continues in organizations organizations organizations not filled C The nav navy r finally ordered to recruit up to and the r marine tharine corps 15 to men cOl completed their quotas X Five months after the declaration of war therefore approximately fighting men of all branches are under underarms arms s More than third one-third of ot the men in the first quota of the new national national national na na- na- na army have been passed Before October all will be he in in camp The men who will train them have been selected in officers' officers training camps Pershing in the 1918 spring drive can have thoroughly equipped men By the end of March the national army will have completed six months training British infantrymen infantry infantry- men now go to France after sixteen weeks' weeks training are tested eight days and sent to the trenches If It the allies re require we can throw into battle additional troops the end of ot March March everyone every one trained more than six mon months months months-a a a millian fully I trained men for the next big offensive offensive- April 21 1917 the war department announced it had ample supplies for with the exception of heavy ordnance and machine guns These de deficiencies deficiencies deficiencies de- de have been met By the end of November the first increment of the national army will 1 be e equipped The rifle supply problem has been solved S Yes Yeh Yes in a way Uncle Sam was bluffIng bluffing bluffing bluff bluff- Ing ing But the bluffer has bluffed the theother others other Bluffer luffer |