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Show Efficiency Will I Be the Test of 1 Officer Promotions j CAMP KEARNY, San Diego, Cal., j Nov. S. The more efficient ofTicer after December 1 will have an absolute and I positive advantage over the less effi- cient in opportunity for promotion in- ir stead of the ' theoretical advantage f heretofore enjoyed, according to warl department orders recently received D here. These orders provide for the rat- W ing of all officers every threo months!! on a basis recently propared by the department and the results of these ratings will outweigh seniority in tha matter of promotions. 9 The work of rating tho officers be- Jj gan both in this country and overseas jpf; uuLuuui' 10 jasu mm The average rating, it is oxpected, mm) will be about 60. When an officer's I rating falls below 45 he may be placed! on probation or relieved of duty and should his rating again fall below 45,1 he Is to be discharged, according to tho understanding of tho plan here. The ratings nre to -be kept on record in the personnel division of the gen- oral staff. m nn iflf |