(1918) students' army traing corps regulations

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639E3 ns918dspy 1 SPECIAL REGULATIONS NO. 103

STUDENTS'ARMY TRAINING CORPSREGULATIONS

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^ata.SPECIAL REGULATIONS NO. 103.

WAR DEPARTMENT,Washington, September 24, 1918.

The following regulations and instructions governing theestablishment, administration, and maintenance of Students'Army Training Corps units at educational institutions, and theissue of Government property thereto in accordance with exist-ing laws are published for the information and guidance of allconcerned.The provisions of these regulations do not affect obligations

to provide military instruction imposed by the act of July 2,1862, upon land-grant institutions.

[000.862, A. G. O.]

By oedee of the Seceetaey of Wae :PEYTON C. MARCH,General, Chief of Staff.

Official :P. C. HARRIS,

Acting The Adjutant General.2

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.Paragraphs.Section I. General principles >- 1- 3

Section II. Constitution , 4r- 9Section III. Conditions and routine ot admission to. a

Students' Army Training Corps unit 10-16Section IV. Administration 17-23Section V. Scope of training 24-27Section VI. Military inspection 28Section VII. Uniform and equipment 29-37

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STUDENTS' ARMY TRAINING CORPS REGULATIONS.SECTION I.

GENERAL PRINCIPLES.Paragraph.

Authorization for establishment 1Title 2Object - - 3

1. Anthorization for establishment.The Students' ArmyTraining Corps is raised under authority of the act of Con-gress approved May 18, 1917, commonly known as the selective-service act, authorizing the President to increase temporarilythe Military Establishment of the United States, as amendedby the act of August 31, 1918, and under Section II, GeneralOrders, No. 79, of the War Department, dated August 24, 1918,as follows

" Under the authority conferred by sections 1, 2, 8, and 9of the act of Congress * authorizing the President to increasetemporarily the Military Establishment of the Unjlted States,'approved May 18, 1917, the President directs that for the periodof the existing emergency there shall be raised and maintainedby voluntary induction and draft a Students' Army TrainingCorps. Units of this corps will be authorized by the Secretaryof War at educational institutions that meet the requirementslaid down in special regulations."

2. Title.Those regulations will be known as Students'Army Training Corps Regulations. ( S. A. T. C. R.3. Object.The object of establishing units of the Students'Army Training Corps is to utilize effectively the plant, equip-

ment, and organization of th^ colleges for selecting and trainingofficer candidates and technical experts for service in theexisting emeirgency,

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6 STUDENTS* ARMY TRAIKCNG CORPS REGULATIONS.SECTION II.

CONSTITUTION. Paragraph.Establishment of units 4Sections of units 5Requirements for the establishment of sections 6Students in preparatory departments 7Approval of units 8Discontinuance of units . 9

4. EstaWishineiit of units.The Students' Army TrainingCorps consists of units established by the President in qualifiededucational institutions which fulfill the requirements laiddown in these regulations.

5. Sections of units,The members of the Students' ArmyTraining Corps at an educational institution will form a singleunit for purposes of military organization, but for purposes ofinstruction such unit may consist of one or more sections,according to the type of educational training given.

6. Requirements for the estaMishment of sections.Thesections of a unit of the Students' Army Training Corps andthe educational requirements for the establishment of the sameare as follows

a. Collegiate section.The establishment of a collegiate sec-tion (to be known as Section A) may be authorized at any civileducational institution which

(1) Requires for admission to its regular curricula gradua-tion from a standard, four-year, secondary school, oran equivalent, and

(2) Ordinarily provides a general or professional curricu-lum covering at least 2 years of not less than 32weeks each, and

(3) Has a student attendance sufficient to maintain acollegiate section of a Students' Army Training Corpsunit with a strength of at least 100 men.

So far as practicable an effort will be made to establishcollegiate sections at institutions which have a smaller studentattendance than that prescribed in the preceding paragraph.Applications from such institutions will be considered andgranted so far as officers and equipment permit, and so far asarrangements for the establishment of joint units may be foundpracticable.


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STUDENTS' ARMY TRAINING CORPS REGULATIONS. 7Provided tlae conditions of this paragraph are met, educa-

tional institutions qualified to maintain collegiate sections ofStudents' Army Training Corps units will include

(1) Colleges and schools of(a) Arts and sciences.(&) Technology.(c) Engineering.(d) Mines.(e) Agriculture and forestry.(/) Business administration, industry, and commerce.(g) Pharmacy.(h) Veterinary medicine.(i) Education.(>) Law.(k) Medicine.(?) Dentistry.

(2) Graduate schools.(3) Normal schools.^(4) Junior colleges.(5) Technical institutes.

6. Vocational section.The establishment of a vocationalsection (to be known as Section B) may be authorized at anyinstitution having an adequate shop or laboratory equipmentand a staif of instructors capable of giving approved vocationaltraining of military value.

7. Students in preparatory departments.Students enrolledin preparatory departments of higher civil educational institu-tions may not be counted by college authorities in reckoning the100 able-bodied male students required for the establishmentof a unit containing a collegiate section only.

8. Approval of units.A unit will not be established unlessthe conditions laid down in paragraph 6 of these regulationsare fulfilled and unless the institution is, in the opinion of theSecretary of War, capable of efficiently carrying out the workprescribed.

9. Discontinuance of units.The Secretary of War may dis-continue any unit should he consider that the proper stand-ards are not being maintained and that the unit is not ful-filling the objects for which the corps is established.

1 Normal schools which give at least two years of college work, fol-lowing four years of high-school preparation or its equivalent, may beincluded.


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8 STUDENTS' AEMY TRAINING CORPS REGULATIONS.SECTION III.

CONDITIONS AND ROUTINE OF ADMISSION TO A STU-DENTS' ARMY TRAINING CORPS UNIT.Paragraph.

Conditions of admission 10Status of members of the Students' Army Training Corps- 11Members of collegiate sections 12Active duty status 13Assignment of members of the Students' Army Training

Corps 14Preferences of voluntarily inducted men to be considered- 15Students not eligible for membership in the Students'Army Training Corps may be given military instruction- 16

10. Conditions of admission.^Eligibility to the Students'Army Training Corps is limited to registrants under the selec-tive-service regulations who are physically iBt to perform fullor limited military duty and who have had at least grammar-school education or its equivalent.

a. Collegiate sections.A collegiate section (Section A) of aStudents' Army Training Corps unit will include those who havegraduated from a standard four-year secondary school or haveequivalent educational qualifications.

Subject to the approval of the Committee on Education andSpecial Training an institution may prescribe any reasonableaddition to the requirement for admission set forth in sub-paragraph a above. The requirement of graduation from astandard four-year secondary school or an equivalent, as a con-dition for admission, will be relaxed only in cases where, inthe judgment of the Committee on Education and Special Train-ing, the enforcement of this requirement would admit numbersinsufficient to meet the needs of the service.

&. Vocational sections.A vocational section (Section B) ofa Students' Army Training Corps will include those who havehad grammar-school education or its equivalent.11. Status of members of the Students' Army TrainingCorps.Upon admission to the Students' Army Training Corpsa registrant becomes a soldier in the Army of the United States.As such he is subject to military law and to military disciplineat all times.

12. Members of colleg-iate sections.The collegiate sec-tions of Students' Army Training Corps units will be recruited


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STUDENTS' ARMY TRAIIHNG CORPS REGULATIONS. 9in the first instance by the voluntary induction of registrantsunder the selective-serAdce regulations.

13. Active-duty status.-Members of the Students' ArmyTraining Corps will be placed upon active-duty status imme-diately upon their induction. The Committee on Education andSpecial Training will enter into contracts with educational in-stitu^tions for the quartering, subsistence, and instruction ofmembers of the Students' Army Training Corps units establishedat such institutions.

14. Assignment of memljers of the Students' Army Train-ing Corps.From time to time, in accordance with the needsof the service and the qualifications of the individual, it willbe the policy of the Government to assign members of theStudents' Army Training Corps to

a. An officers' training camp, or6. A noncommissioned officers' training school, orc. A depot brigade, or4. To continue in certain cases (in either a collegiate or voca-tional section) such technical or special training as the needs

of the service may require.Assignments will ordinarily be made to officers' training

camps or to noncommissioned officers' training schools in thecase of men who are qualified to become officers or noncommis-sioned officers ; to continue at an educational institution in thecase of qualified men who are engaged in such studies asmedicine, engineering, chemistry, etc., or who give promise ofqualifying for admission to officers' training camps or non-commissioned officers' training schools ; and to a depot brigadein the case of those who do not give sufficient promise of quali-fying for commissions after further training.

15. Preferences of voluntarily inducted men to be con-sidered.The preference of registrants who are voluntarilyinducted into the Students' Army Training Corps as to thebranch of the service that they ultimately enter (e. g.. Engi-neers, Artillery, Infantry, Chemical Warfare Service, etc.)will be given consideration except where military needs requirea different course.

16. Students not eligible for membership in the Students'Army Training Corps may be given military instruction.Students in educational institutions at which a unit of theStudents' Army Training Corps has been established may, ifnot eligible for membership in the corps, be given such militaryinstruction as may be found practicable.


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10 STUDENTS' AEMY THAINING CORPS REGULATIONS.SECTION IV.

ADMINISTRATION.Paragraph.

Central administration ITAdministration witliin tlie institution ISRelation of officers to the authorities of the institution 19Authority in matters of discipline 21Method of voluntary induction 22Organization of units 23

17. Central administration.The Students' Army TrainingCorps is administered by the War Department through theCommittee on Education and Special Training of the Trainingand Instruction Branch, War Plans Division, General StafC,assisted by an advisory educational board, together with educa-tional directors, district educational directors and special ad-visers.

18. Administration within the institution.The War De-partment will provide an officer of the Army, active or retired,to serve as commanding officer in each institution at w^hich aunit of the Students' Army Training Corps is established, and,so far as practicable, additional officers will be provided inproportion to the strength of the unit.

19. Eelation of officers to the authorities of the institu-tion.The commanding officer and the other officers assignedto duty with units* of the Students' Army Training Corps will,in their relation to the institution, observe the general usagestherein established affecting the duties and obligations ofmembers of the faculty and other academic instructors. Offi-cers will not, without permission of the Secretary of War,"undertake any Instructional or administrative duties in theinstitution other than those connected with the work of theStudents' Army Training Corps.

20. The commanding officer at an institution will instructofficers and noncommissioned officers in their relation to theinstitution and its officials.

21. Authority in matters of discipline.It is the duty ofthe commanding officer, and of other officers assigned to dutywith units of the Students' Army Training Corps, to enforcemilitary discipline. Nothing in these regulations is intendedto confer on the commanding officer authority over purelyeducational matters.


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STUDENTS' ARMY TRAIinNG CORPS REGULATIONS. 1122. Method of yoluntary induction.The method of volun-

tary induction into tlie Students' Army Training Corps is pre-scribed in the Selective Service Regulations and instructionsissuing from the office of the Provost Marshal General.

23. Organization of units.The Students' Army TrainingCorps is a corps of The United States Army. Members of it willbe trained for the line and for the different staff corps. Theireducational programs will be shaped to prepare various groupsfor particular duties in accordance with the needs of theservice. The Students' Army Training Corps will be organizedas Infantry under the Tables of Organization and the funda-mental infantry training common to all branches of the servicewill be given. SECTION V.

SCOPE OF TRAINING.Paragraph.

Instruction in Section A 24Approval of courses in allied subjects 25List of allied subjects . 26Instruction in Section B 27

24. Instruction in Section A.For Section A the instructionwill be partly military and partly in allied subjects that havevalue as a means of training officers and experts to meet theneeds of the service.The average number of hours to be devoted each week to

those subjects will be as followsa. Military subjects, including practical instruction (drill,

etc.), theoretical military instruction, and physical training11 hours.

&. Allied subjects, including lectures, recitations, laboratoryinstruction and the necessary preparation therefor42 hours.(Each hour of lecture or recitation will ordinarily require twohours of supervised study.The hours above set forth have reference to the normal course.

In the case of students who have pursued for at least one yearat an approved institution such studies as form part of theprogram of preparation for the Chemical Warfare Service, theMedical Corps, the Engineer Corps, the Ordnance Corps, orother technical branches of the service, the Committee on Edu-cation and Special Training may authorize a reduction in thehours of military instruction (including practical military in-


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12 STTJDENTS' AEMY TRAINING CORPS REGULATIONS.struction, theoretical military instruction, and physical train-ing) to not less than six hours per week, provided that thereduction is made good by the substitution of a correspondingnumber of additional hours of instruction in approved technicalsubjects.

Provision will be made for approving general programs, aswell as technical and special programs, in medicine, engineering,chemistry, and other technical courses.

25. Approval of courses in allied siil3jects,The Committeeon Education and Special Training will furnish from time totime suggestions regarding the treatment of allied subjects thatare chosen as parts of the curriculum. District educationaldirectors (Section A) are authorized to approve courses whichthey deem to be suitable, subject to the ratification of the edu-cational director (Section A).

26. List of allied siilbjects.The allied subjects will ordi-narily be selected from the following list: English, French,Italian, German, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, geol-ogy, psychology, geography, topography and map making, mete-orology, astronomy, hygiene, sanitation, descriptive geometry,mechanical and freehand drawing, surveying, economics, account-ing, history, international law, military law, and government.

Permission may be granted for the recognition, as an alliedsubject, of not more than one subject outside the above list,provided that it occupies not more than three hours per week inlectures and recitations with corresponding time for study.In the case of technical and professional schools provisionwall be made for approving general programs of study containingsubjects other than those included in the above list of alliedsubjects.The war-issues, course.The program of study in allied sub-

jects must include a course on the underlying issues of the war.This may be planned as a special war-issues course with aminimum for Section A of three classroom hours per week,with corresponding time for study, covering three terms, or therequirement may be met by a course or courses in history, gov-ernment, economics, philosophy, or modern literature wherethose courses are so planned as, in the opinion of the educa-tional director (Section A), to accomplish substantially thesame purpose.The district educational director (Section A) may empower

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STUDENTS' ARMY TRAININQ CORPS REGTILATIONS. ISa. Members of tlie Students' Army Training Corps who have

had a similar course, even though not identical in every detail, or&. Members of the Students' Army Training Corps who havealready had at least two years of work of collegiate grade in an

approved institution and who should be required to concentratethe whole of their time on advanced studjies.While the study of any of the subjects set forth above should

be useful as a part of the training of future officers, the con-tents of the course and the methods of instruction will in eachcase determine the acceptance of the subject as well as theamount of credit to be assigned to it as an allied military sub-ject. This credit may vary according to the branch of theservice for which the student is preparing, e. g., Field Artillery,Medical Corps, or Engineering Corps.

27. Instruction in Section B.For Section B the averagenumber of hours to be devoted each week to military and voca^-tional training will be as follows

a. Military subjects, including practical instruction (drill,etc.), and physical training15^ hours.

&. Vocational subjects33 hours.0. War-issues course (see fourth subparagraph of paragraph

26 above)1 hour.SECTION* VI.

MILITARY INSPECTION.28. A body of military inspectors will cover units of the

Students' Army Training Corps and report directly to the Com-mittee on Education and Special Training.

SECTION VII.UNIFORM AND EQUIPMENT,

Paragraph.Uniform, arms, and equipment 29Use of Government property 30Issue of Government property , SXB,equisitions . 32Shipments 33Storage and cleaning , 34Loss or damage . 35Sale or pledge ^ ., _ 36Insignia 37


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14 STUDENTS' ARMY TRAINING CORPS REGULATIONS.2^. Uniform, arms, and equipment. a. The uniform of a

member of the Students' Army Training Corps and his allow-ance of clothing will be that of a private soldier and will befurnished complete as far as practicable.

&. The number and kinds of arms and equipment to be issuedwill, so far as praticable, conform to those prescribed for theArmy.

30. Use of Oovernment property.^No article of Govern-ment uniform or equipment, issued under the provisions of theforegoing paragraphs, shall be used except to uniform membersof the unit of the Students' Army Training Corps at the insti-tution to which said uniform and equipment were issued.

31. Issue of Ooyernment property.All Government prop-erty will be issued and invoiced to the supply officer, who will6e accountable to the Government for same. Requisitions andreturns for Government property must be prepared in accord-ance with the regulations governing the respective supply de-partments concerned.

32. Kequisitions. Requisitions for Government propertywill be sent by the commanding officer to the Committee onEducation and Special Training, who, after approving, willforward them to the proper source of supply.

33. Shipments.Authorized shipments of Government prop-erty from depots, arsenals, or armories to institutions, andauthorized return shipments of such property from institu-tions to depots, arsenals, or armories will be made on regularform of Government bill of lading at the expense of the UnitedStaies.

34. Storage and cleaning.^Adequate facilities must be pro-vided by the institution for the proper storage, care, and safe-keeping of Government property issued to it. All Governmentproperty must be kept in serviceable condition. A proper allow-ance of cleaning material and spare parts will be issued sofar as practicable by the Government for this purpose. De-tailed instruction as to the care, use, preservation, and accounta-bility of Government property are found in the Army Regula-tions and in other regulations or instructions issued by theWar Department, and strict adherence to same is enjoined uponall concerned.

35. Loss or damage.Action concerning the loss, damage, orunserviceability of Government property will be in accordancewith Army Regulations.


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STUDENTS' AIIMY TEAINING CORPS REGULATIONS. 16C Sale or pledge.The sale or pledge of any article of

unif01x11, arms, or equipment by an enlisted man is an offensepunishable by court-martial.

37. Insignia.Members of the Students' Army TrainingCorps will wear, with the service hat, an olive-drab cord.They will wear as collar insignia a bronze disk bearing theletters " U. S."Acting noncommissioned officers of the Students' Army Train-

ing Corps will wear the chevrons prescribed for noncommis-sioned officers of the Army.

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