Military Policy of the American Legion (Classic Reprint)
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Military Policy of the American Legion We are convinced that in the preparation of these estimates the economic demands of the country have received the fullest and most carefl consideration by the Secretary of War and any material cut will seriously affect an adequate national defense of our country and will tend to bring it below what is recognized as a proper margin of safety. The American Legion unqualifiedly indorses the recommendations upon the commissioned personnel of the United States Army made by Gen. Pershing. It believes that the elimination of a considerable number of the least effective officers of the Regular Establishment will tend to increase the efficiency of the entire Army of the United States. We believe that the commissioned personnel should not be cut below the number recommended by Gen. Pershing, which is the number approved by the Budget Committee, as these officers are required not merely for the units of the Regular Army but for the development of the National Guard, the Organized Reserves, and the system of citizen training. This committee is also directed by its national convention to recommend legislation that will provide that the time for making recommendations for and the awarding of the congressional medal of honor, the distinguished service cross and the distinguished service medal for service in the war, be extended five years after the declaration of peace by the United States and also that the law which allowed men who had previously been recommended for the congressional medal or honor but who failed to receive the distinguished service cross, be changed so that the law shall apply to all persons now in or who have been honorably separated from, the military service of the United States. As representatives of an organization containing a million exservice men, organized into 11,000 posts throughout the United States, we feel entitled to expect with some confidence that the country will look for some time to the exservice men of the Nation for a sound and patriotic judgment upon subjects relating to national preparedness. The committee on military affairs is concerned with the broad question of policy as it affects our national defense, without reference to any special interests. Our recommendations are based upon comprehensive viewpoint of the working of the entire Army reorganization act in a harmonious, efficient, and economical development of each of the component parts of the Army of the United States. D. John Markey, Maryland, Chairman. Edward L. Logan, Massachusetts. A. G. Thacher, New York. Hanson E. Ely, Iowa. Geo. E. Leach, Minnesota. John McA. Palmeu, District of Columbia. Arthur F. Cosby, New York. E. Y. Rickenbacker, Ohio. Senator Warren. Have you been before either of the two committees of the House, the Military Affairs Committee or the Appropriations Committee, or have you arranged to appear before them? Mr. Markey. We were before both the Military Affairs Committee and the Subcommittee on Appropriations yesterday. We also had a personal conference with Mr. Madden, the chairman of the committee, and submitted to him personally one of these statements of the committee. I want to possibly qualify one statement there in connection with what I have said, in the paragraph at the beginning of the second page of the brief, where it has been indicated that even less than the minimum for the National Guard, by stating that in the budget estimates there is provided an appropriation of $30,000,000 for the National Guard for the fiscal year beginning June 30. That, in the opinion of the Militia Bureau, whom I am quoting, is in their judgment sufficient only for a Guard of 143,000 men. To day there is in the National Guard of the country 140,0
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