COMMISSIONED PERSONNEL ON DUTIES OTHER THAN THOSE UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF A CHIEF OF ARM OR SERVICE

The following table shows, as of June 30, 1940, the number of officers on duty with, or under detail or assignment to, duties other than those under the supervision of a chief of arm or service in which they were commissioned (or to which they had been detailed or assigned), classified by grades and arm or service from which detached:

The character of the duty performed by officers enumerated in the foregoing table is shown below:

1 General Staff includes 109 officers "on duty with" and not detailed.
Includes 5 colonels and 4 lieutenant colonels, professors at Military Academy.

WARRANT OFFICERS

The following table shows the number of warrant officers of each class in active service at the beginning of the fiscal year 1940, and the gains and losses during the year:

DETACHED ENLISTED MEN'S LIST

The actual number of men on the detached enlisted men's list increased from 5,439 on June 30, 1939, to 5,837 on June 30, 1940. The following tabulation shows the number of men on that list on the latter date, classified according to character of duty to which they have been assigned.

Character of duty and number of enlisted men

Recruiting Service...

Disciplinary barracks guard and noncommissioned officers.

Guard company, New York port of embarkation_.
Headquarters, New York port of embarkation...

Headquarters, San Francisco port of embarkation_.

Intelligence police-

Indian scouts..

Headquarters, First Army..

Headquarters, Second Army.

Headquarters, Third Army..
Headquarters, Fourth Army.
Fort Bliss detachment.--.
At sea..

Total__

OFFICERS' RESERVE CORPS

782

367

615

1,271

147

115

88

259

28

375

742

6

85

1, 184

91

22

4

3

14

8

1

5, 837

In the following statement the strength of the Officers' Reserve Corps, by grades, on June 30, 1939, and on June 30, 1940, is shown, itemized as to officers who are eligible for assignment to active duty and those who are ineligible for such assignment:

1 Inactive Reserve, not included in totals, comprises officers over 64 years of age, or physically disqualified, or who apply for transfer thereto after required period of service.

In the following table is shown the strength of the Officers' Reserve Corps by grades and sections, as of June 30, 1940:

Of the foregoing 12,408 are ineligible for promotion, active duty, and assignment during peacetime. The grades of these officers are as follows:

During the fiscal year changes in the Officers' Reserve Corps occurred as follows:

Appointments-

12, 300

Nonassignable Reserve officers who have regained assignable status_---- 813

Total...

13, 113

Separations of assignable Reserve officers, by classes, during the fiscal year were as follows:

Resigned.

794

Discharged

Died__

Appointments in Regular Army.

463

241

Appointments in National Guard of the United States.
Appointments terminated by expiration of 5-year period..
Accepted reappointments in nonassignable status.

Total....

The following table shows, by grade and section, the 12,300 appointments of assignable officers accepted in the Officers' Reserve Corps during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1940:

During the fiscal year 7,563 Reserve officers were promoted and 3,335 were transferred from one section to another.

Data regarding reappointments of Reserve officers assignable at time of expiration of 5-year period of appointment

Reappointments tendered during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1939,

and not acted upon at close of that year.

Appointments terminated during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1940, by expiration of 5-year period..

Total_...

212

16, 100