Promotion and Retirement: Hearings Before the Committee on Military Affairs and Subcommittee No. 8, House of Representatives, Seventieth Congress, First Session. March 21, 1928, April 4, 23, 24, and 30, 1928U.S. Government Printing Office, 1928 - 264 pages |
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Page 67 - An. Act to provide more effectively for the national defense by increasing the efficiency of the Air Corps of the Army of the United States, and for other purposes.
Page 76 - When an officer has served forty years either as an officer or soldier in the regular or volunteer service, or both, he shall, if he make application therefor to the President, be retired from active service and placed on the retired list...
Page 225 - Fourth, persons to be appointed as captains or lieutenants under the provisions of section 24, hereof, shall be placed according to commissioned service rendered prior to November 11, 1918, among the officers referred to in the next preceding clause; and where such commissioned service is equal, officers now in the Regular Army shall precede persons to be appointed under the provisions of this Act, and the latter shall be arranged according to age.
Page 148 - Regular, provisional, or temporary forces, except service under a reserve commission while in attendance at a school or camp for the training of candidates for commission...
Page 9 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War shall cause to be prepared an Air Corps promotion list on which shall be placed the names of all officers of the Air Corps of the Regular Army below the grade of colonel. The names on this list shall be arranged in the same relative order that they now...
Page 76 - Hereafter in computing the length of service for retirement credit shall be given soldiers for double the time...
Page 54 - But there is one thing I would like to say, and that is I...
Page 82 - I might add the steam plant is used there on the property for that purpose. (The committee thereupon went into executive session, at the conclusion of which an adjournment was taken until to-morrow, Thursday, January 27, 1927, at 10 o'clock am).
Page 152 - In determining relative rank and increase of pay for length of service, and, in the case of officers of the Regular Army, in determining rights of retirement, active duty performed while under appointment from the United States Government, whether in the Regular, provisional, or temporary forces, shall be credited to the same extent as service under a Regular Army commission.
Page 63 - That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to investigate and study the alleged injustices which exist in the promotion list of the Army and to submit to Congress on the second Monday in December, 1926, this study, together with his recommendations for changes, if any, in the present promotion list. Sec.