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Same-Officers and enlisted men provided for to be additional

to regular corps allotment--- 889b Same-Details from line offi

cers, tour of service, and redetail of proficient aviators---- 889c Same-Aviation students, selec

tion, tour of service, etc.; no vacancies created by such detachment

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879a. Composition of and details to the Aviation Section.-The Signal Corps shall consist of one Chief Signal Officer, with the rank of brigadier general; three colonels; eight lieutenant colonels; ten majors; thirty captains; seventy-five first lieutenants; and the Aviation Section, which shall consist of one colonel; one lieutenant colonel; eight majors; twenty-four captains; and one hundred and fourteen first lieutenants, who shall be selected from among officers of the Army at large of corresponding grades or from among officers of the grade below, exclusive of those serving by detail in staff corps or departments, who are qualified as military aviators, and shall be detailed to serve as aviation officers for periods of four years unless sooner relieved; and the provisions of section twenty-seven of the Act of Congress approved February second, nineteen hundred and one, are hereby extended to apply to said aviation officers and to vacancies created in any arm, corps, or department of the Army by the detail of said officers therefrom; but nothing in said Act or in any other law now in force shall be held to prevent the detail or redetail at any time, to fill a vacancy among the aviation officers authorized by this Act, of any officer who, during prior service as an aviation officer of the Aviation Section, shall have become proficient in military aviation. Sec. 13, Act of June 3, 1916 (39 Stat. 174). (For the ensuing provision of this section see paragraph 8890.)

883a. Exchange of typewriters and adding machines.-Hereafter the Signal Corps may exchange typewriters and adding machines in the purchase of similar equipment. Act of Mar. 4, 1915 (38 Stat.

AVIATION SECTION.

889a. Created, duties, etc.-There shall hereafter be, and there is hereby created, an Aviation Section, which shall be a part of the Signal Corps of the Army, and which shall be, and is hereby, charged with the duty of operating or supervising the operation of all military aircraft, including balloons and aeroplanes, all appliances pertaining to said craft, and signaling apparatus of any kind when installed on said craft; also with the duty of training officers and enlisted men in matters pertaining to military aviation. Sec. 1, Act of July 18, 1914 (38 Stat. 514).

889b. Same-Officers and enlisted men provided for to be additional to regular corps allotment.-In addition to such officers and enlisted men as shall be assigned from the Signal Corps at large to executive, administrative, scientific, or other duty in or for the Aviation Section, there shall be in said section aviation officers not to exceed sixty in number and two hundred and sixty aviation enlisted men of all grades; and said aviation officers and aviation enlisted men, all of whom shall be engaged on duties pertaining to said Aviation Section, shall be additional to the officers and enlisted men now allotted by law to the Signal Corps, the commissioned and enlisted strengths of which are hereby increased accordingly. Sec. 2, id.

889c. Same-Details from line officers, tour of service, and redetail of proficient aviators.-The aviation officers provided for in this section shall, except as hereinafter prescribed specifically to the contrary, be selected from among officers holding commissions in the line of the Army with rank below that of captain, and shall be detailed to serve as such aviation officers for periods of four years, unless sooner relieved, and the provisions of section twenty-seven of the Act of Congress approved February second, nineteen hundred and one (Thirty-first Statutes, page seven hundred and fifty-five), are hereby extended so as to apply to said aviation officers and to the vacancies created in the line of the Army by the detail of said officers therefrom, but nothing in said Act or in any other law now in force shall be held to prevent the detail or redetail at any time to fill a vacancy among the aviation officers authorized by this Act, of any officer holding a commission in the line of the Army with rank below that of captain, and who, during prior service as an aviation officer in the aviation section, shall have become especially proficient in military aviation. Sec. 2, id.

889d. Same-Aviation students, selection, tour of service, etc.; no vacancies created by such detachment.-There shall also be constantly attached to the aviation section a sufficient number of aviation students to make, with the aviation officers actually detailed in said

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section under the provisions of this Act, a total number of sixty aviation officers and aviation students constantly under assignment to, or detail in, said section. Said aviation students, all of whom shall be selected on the recommendation of the chief signal officer from among unmarried lieutenants of the line of the Army not over thirty years of age, shall remain attached to the aviation section for a sufficient time, but in no case to exceed one year, to determine their fitness or unfitness for detail as aviation officers in said section, and their detachment from their respective arms of service which under assignment to said section shall not be held to create in said arms. vacancies that may be filled by promotions or original appointments. Sec. 2, id. 515.

889e. Same-Details not compulsory in time of peace.-No person, except in time of war, shall be assigned or detailed against his will to duty as an aviation student or an aviation officer. Sec. 2, id. 889f. Same-Assignment to cease if officer is inefficient, etc.Whenever, under such regulations as the Secretary of War shall prescribe and publish to the Army, an officer assigned or detailed to duty of any kind in or with the aviation section shall have been found to be inattentive to his duties, inefficient, or incapacitated from any cause whatever for the full and efficient discharge of all duties that might properly be imposed upon him if he should be continued on duty in or with said section, said officer shall be returned forthwith to the branch of the service in which he shall hold a commission. Sec. 2, id.

889g. Same-Aviation officers rated, junior military aviators, etc.— The aviation officers hereinbefore provided for shall be rated in two classes, to wit, as junior military aviators and as military aviators. Within sixty days after this act shall take effect the Secretary of War may, upon the recommendation of the Chief Signal Officer, rate as junior military aviators any officers with rank below that of captain, who are now on aviation duty and who have, or shall have before the date of rating so authorized, shown by practical tests, including aerial flights, that they are especially well qualified for military aviation service; and after said rating shall have been made the rating of junior military aviator shall not be conferred upon any person except as hereinafter provided. Sec. 3, id.

889h. Same-Rating, increased grade and pay of junior military aviators, aviation students, etc.—Each aviation student authorized by this act shall, while on duty that requires him to participate regularly and frequently in aerial flights, receive an increase of 25 per centum in the pay of his grade and length of service under his line commission. Each duly qualified junior military aviator shall, while so serving, have the rank, pay, and allowances of one grade higher

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