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Actual distribution of commissioned personnel of the Marine Corps on October

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Operations and training.

Adjutant and inspector

Quartermaster__

Paymaster

Special duty with Army any Navy-

Detached duty in Washington_.

Yorktown, Va.: Marine barracks, naval mine depot.

Parris Island, S. C.:

Marine barracks (to fluctuate between 33 and 48, dependent upon
number of recruits under instruction)

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Assistant paymaster, Philadelphia, Pa

Assistant paymaster, Atlanta, Ga___

Assistant paymaster, San Diego, Calif.

Depot of supplies, Philadelphia, Pa

Depot of supplies, Hampton Roads, Va

Recruiting: Recruiting bureau of service___.

Mare Island, Calif.: Navy yard (barracks detachment, naval prison detachment, naval ammunition depot detachment, and rifle range detach

ment)

Puget Sound, Wash.:

Marine barracks, navy yard...

Receiving ship

Marine barracks, naval ammunition depot..

Keyport, Wash.: Marine barracks, naval torpedo station_
San Diego, Calif.:

Marine Corps base, naval operating base

Recruit depot

Marine barracks, naval air station..

Marine detachment, receiving ship, destroyer base..

San Francisco, Calif.:

Headquarters, Department of the Pacific_.

Receiving ship

Afloat

Cavite and Olongapo, P. I

Managua, Nicaragua

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii...

Guam

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Guantanamo Bay, Cuba:

Marine barracks, naval station.

Expeditionary Battalion, Sixth Regiment.

Virgin Islands

China, Peking:

Marine detachment

Expeditionary force

Coco Solo, Isthmian Canal Zone, naval submarine base..
Casual (including sick in hospital, en route, etc.)

Haiti

Quantico, Va

Aviation

Schools:

Instructors

51

14

13 R

21

104

162

55

28

126

Students_

Total

1,007

Actual distribution of commissioned personnel of the Marine Corps on October

31, 1924-Continued

RECAPITULATION

1.

Permanent details to staff duties and four-year details of line officers

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Guards for navy yards, ammunition depots, naval stations, at home and abroad

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Aviation at home and abroad

55

Garrisons for Haiti, Virgin Islands, Peking, Managua, and Guam---Permanent detachments for training stations, recruiting service headquarters, staff offices, supply depots, Marine Corps Institute, Quantico,

137

and San Diego

209

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Casuals (including sick in hospital, en route, etc.)

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Officers performing other than Marine Corps duties:
Maj. Wiliam L. Bevan, office of chief coordinator of supply budget.
Maj. Julian C. Smith, office of chief coordinator of supply budget.
Maj. Charles D. Barrett, American Battle Monuments Commission.

SOURCE OF SUPPLY OF OFFICERS

Mr. FRENCH. I should like to ask one question about the officers. To what extent do you draw from Annapolis in the commissioning of officers annually?

General LEJEUNE. The law which governs the appointments of second lieutenants in the Marine Corps is as follows:

These officers shall be drawn, first, from graduates of the Naval Academy. Second, from meritorious noncommissioned officers; and third, from civil life.

During the last three years, in accordance with that law, we have appointed annually 25 graduates of the Naval Academy as second lieutenants and about an average of 12 or 15 noncommissioned officers, and the same number of graduates of what are designated by the War Department as distinguished military colleges. Those colleges are such as Norwich University, Vermont, and the Virginia Military Institute. They are the colleges that the War Department designates as distinguished colleges. We have kept that up for three years. This year we are only going to have 15 graduates of the Naval Academy because the needs of the line of the Navy are still great.

Mr. FRENCH. Would you like more?

General LEJEUNE. I asked for 25, but I agreed with Admiral Shoemaker when talking it over with him, that their needs were such. on account of the large number of resignations, that they take as many graduates as possible to fill up the requirements of the Navy.

Mr. FRENCH. Is the training in the academy such that you would be glad to increase the number, if you had the opportunity?

General LEJEUNE. I am a little diffident about answering that, because I am a graduate of the Naval Academy myself. I say I am a little diffident, Mr. Chairman, but actions speak louder than words and I have made continued attempts to get as many graduates of the Naval Academy as I could get in the Marine Corps.

STATEMENTS SHOWING DISTRIBUTION OF ENLISTED MEN

Mr. FRENCH. Would you at this point insert the tables that you have handed to the committee, showing the distribution of the enlisted strength of the Marine Corps as of some late date, October 31st?

General LEJEUNE. Yes.

Recapitulation of distribution of enlisted strength United States Marine Corps

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Recapitulation of distribution of enlisted strength United States Marine Corps

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