Word: line
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...military cloudland in which he has been wandering for the past two weeks of uninterrupted drill. Class-rooms are something to which he has become inured by long training. Much as he may tremble on the field before the eye of the omniscent instructor, once safe behind the first-line trenches of a bench in a Sever Hall room, he feels himself master of his own destiny. The instructor is there to find out how little he knows. He is there to show how much...
When as officers the students of the Corps get out on the battle line, what opinion their instructor had of their aptitude or cleverness will be of small moment. The thing that will matter then is whether they can solve quickly and soundly "small problems for infantry," and great ones when the need shall come...
...branches of the Officers' Reserve Corps, medical, quartermaster, etc.; 9 are in the Naval Reserve Force; 13 hold commissions in the regular army, navy, and marines; and the remaining 18 are members of the militia of the various states. The list of fields of service in the non-military line is ever more extended. The Council of National Defense, the American Red Cross, and the Belgian Relief Committee are served by the majority of the 57 men under this division, but the various boards at Washington, such as the Shipping Board, the Foreign and Domestic Commerce Board, etc.; the Massachusetts...
...assigned to duty in the Quartermaster Corps, but some of them will probably be detailed for work heretofore done by regimental commissaries and quartermasters--now called "supply" officers. The fundamental distinction between the two kinds of service lies in the field in which the work is carried on. Line officers doing supply duty serve with their organizations wherever they chance to be, in camp, on the march, in reserve, on the firing line. They are simply detailed to see that the physical needs of the men are satisfied, as other officers are detailed to see that the men render certain...
...main, the work of supply officers begins where that of the officers of the Quartermaster Corps ends. Though the supply officer of the line gets his supplies chiefly from the Quartermaster Corps, he has relations with other staff organizations, for he must handle other supplies and property sent to the line without passing through the Quartermaster Corps. This responsibility for goods and property received is one which no supply officer or quartermaster can take lightly. The Government is concerned not only to provide supplies and property but to get the maximum out of them. The Government demands strict accountability...