639 E3 P5 918d opy 1 639 E3 ns 918d spy 1 SPECIAL REGULATIONS NO. 103 STUDENTS' ARMY TRAINING CORPS REGULATIONS V 1918 WASHINGTON GOVERNMEr^T PRINTING OFHCE 1918 ^ata. SPECIAL REGULATIONS NO. 103. WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, September 24, 1918. The following regulations and instructions governing the establishment, administration, and maintenance of Students' Army Training Corps units at educational institutions, and the issue of Government property thereto in accordance with exist- ing laws are published for the information and guidance of all concerned. 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 n^ ^t -• FEB ^2 TABLE OF CONTENTS. Paragraphs. Section I. General principles >- 1- 3 Section II. Constitution , 4r- 9 Section III. Conditions and routine ot admission to. a Students' Army Training Corps unit 10-16 Section IV. Administration 17-23 Section V. Scope of training 24-27 Section VI. Military inspection 28 Section VII. Uniform and equipment 29-37 3 STUDENTS' ARMY TRAINING CORPS REGULATIONS. SECTION I. GENERAL PRINCIPLES. Paragraph. Authorization for establishment 1 Title 2 Object - - 3 1. Anthorization for establishment. — The Students' Army Training 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 temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States, as amended by the act of August 31, 1918, and under Section II, General Orders, No. 79, of the War Department, dated August 24, 1918, as follows : " Under the authority conferred by sections 1, 2, 8, and 9 of the act of Congress * authorizing the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the Unjlted States,' approved May 18, 1917, the President directs that for the period of the existing emergency there shall be raised and maintained by voluntary induction and draft a Students' Army Training Corps. Units of this corps will be authorized by the Secretary of War at educational institutions that meet the requirements laid 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 training officer candidates and technical experts for service in the existing ■emeirgency, 5 6 STUDENTS* ARMY TRAIKCNG CORPS REGULATIONS. SECTION II. CONSTITUTION. Paragraph. Establishment of units 4 Sections of units 5 Requirements for the establishment of sections 6 Students in preparatory departments 7 Approval of units 8 Discontinuance of units . 9 4. EstaWishineiit of units. — The Students' Army Training Corps consists of units established by the President in qualified educational institutions which fulfill the requirements laid down in these regulations. 5. Sections of units, — The members of the Students' Army Training Corps at an educational institution will form a single unit for purposes of military organization, but for purposes of instruction such unit may consist of one or more sections, according to the type of educational training given. 6. Requirements for the estaMishment of sections. — The sections of a unit of the Students' Army Training Corps and the educational requirements for the establishment of the same are as follows : a. Collegiate section. — The establishment of a collegiate sec- tion (to be known as Section A) may be authorized at any civil educational institution which — (1) Requires for admission to its regular curricula gradua- tion from a standard, four-year, secondary school, or an equivalent, and (2) Ordinarily provides a general or professional curricu- lum covering at least 2 years of not less than 32 weeks each, and (3) Has a student attendance sufficient to maintain a collegiate section of a Students' Army Training Corps unit with a strength of at least 100 men. So far as practicable an effort will be made to establish collegiate sections at institutions which have a smaller student attendance than that prescribed in the preceding paragraph. Applications from such institutions will be considered and granted so far as officers and equipment permit, and so far as arrangements for the establishment of joint units may be found practicable. STUDENTS' ARMY TRAINING CORPS REGULATIONS. 7 Provided tlae conditions of this paragraph are met, educa- tional institutions qualified to maintain collegiate sections of Students' 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 vocational section (to be known as Section B) may be authorized at any institution having an adequate shop or laboratory equipment and a staif of instructors capable of giving approved vocational training of military value. 7. Students in preparatory departments. — Students enrolled in preparatory departments of higher civil educational institu- tions may not be counted by college authorities in reckoning the 100 able-bodied male students required for the establishment of a unit containing a collegiate section only. 8. Approval of units. — A unit will not be established unless the conditions laid down in paragraph 6 of these regulations are fulfilled and unless the institution is, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, capable of efficiently carrying out the work prescribed. 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 be included. 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 10 Status of members of the Students' Army Training Corps- 11 Members of collegiate sections 12 Active duty status 13 Assignment of members of the Students' Army Training Corps 14 Preferences of voluntarily inducted men to be considered- 15 Students 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 full or limited military duty and who have had at least grammar- school education or its equivalent. a. Collegiate sections. — A collegiate section (Section A) of a Students' Army Training Corps unit will include those who have graduated from a standard four-year secondary school or have equivalent educational qualifications. Subject to the approval of the Committee on Education and Special Training an institution may prescribe any reasonable addition to the requirement for admission set forth in sub- paragraph a above. The requirement of graduation from a standard four-year secondary school or an equivalent, as a con- dition for admission, will be relaxed only in cases where, in the judgment of the Committee on Education and Special Train- ing, the enforcement of this requirement would admit numbers insufficient to meet the needs of the service. &. Vocational sections. — A vocational section (Section B) of a Students' Army Training Corps will include those who have had grammar-school education or its equivalent. 11. Status of members of the Students' Army Training Corps. — Upon admission to the Students' Army Training Corps a registrant becomes a soldier in the Army of the United States. As such he is subject to military law and to military discipline at all times. 12. Members of colleg-iate sections. — The collegiate sec- tions of Students' Army Training Corps units will be recruited STUDENTS' ARMY TRAIIHNG CORPS REGULATIONS. 9 in the first instance by the voluntary induction of registrants under the selective-serAdce regulations. 13. Active-duty status.- — Members of the Students' Army Training Corps will be placed upon active-duty status imme- diately upon their induction. The Committee on Education and Special Training will enter into contracts with educational in- stitu^tions for the quartering, subsistence, and instruction of members of the Students' Army Training Corps units established at such institutions. 14. Assignment of memljers of the Students' Army Train- ing Corps. — From time to time, in accordance with the needs of the service and the qualifications of the individual, it will be the policy of the Government to assign members of the Students' Army Training Corps to : a. An officers' training camp, or 6. A noncommissioned officers' training school, or c. A depot brigade, or 4. 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 the case of men who are qualified to become officers or noncommis- sioned officers ; to continue at an educational institution in the case of qualified men who are engaged in such studies as medicine, engineering, chemistry, etc., or who give promise of qualifying for admission to officers' training camps or non- commissioned officers' training schools ; and to a depot brigade in 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 voluntarily inducted into the Students' Army Training Corps as to the branch 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 require a 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 the Students' Army Training Corps has been established may, if not eligible for membership in the corps, be given such military instruction as may be found practicable. 10 STUDENTS' AEMY THAINING CORPS REGULATIONS. SECTION IV. ADMINISTRATION. Paragraph. Central administration IT Administration witliin tlie institution IS Relation of officers to the authorities of the institution 19 Authority in matters of discipline 21 Method of voluntary induction 22 Organization of units 23 17. Central administration. — The Students' Army Training Corps is administered by the War Department through the Committee on Education and Special Training of the Training and 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 a unit of the Students' Army Training Corps is established, and, so far as practicable, additional officers will be provided in proportion to the strength of the unit. 19. Eelation of officers to the authorities of the institu- tion. — The commanding officer and the other officers assigned to duty with units* of the Students' Army Training Corps will, in their relation to the institution, observe the general usages therein established affecting the duties and obligations of members 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 the institution other than those connected with the work of the Students' Army Training Corps. 20. The commanding officer at an institution will instruct officers and noncommissioned officers in their relation to the institution and its officials. 21. Authority in matters of discipline. — It is the duty of the commanding officer, and of other officers assigned to duty with units of the Students' Army Training Corps, to enforce military discipline. Nothing in these regulations is intended to confer on the commanding officer authority over purely educational matters. STUDENTS' ARMY TRAIinNG CORPS REGULATIONS. 11 22. 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 instructions issuing from the office of the Provost Marshal General. 23. Organization of units. — The Students' Army Training Corps is a corps of The United States Army. Members of it will be trained for the line and for the different staff corps. Their educational programs will be shaped to prepare various groups for particular duties in accordance with the needs of the service. The Students' Army Training Corps will be organized as Infantry under the Tables of Organization and the funda- mental infantry training common to all branches of the service will be given. SECTION V. SCOPE OF TRAINING. Paragraph. Instruction in Section A 24 Approval of courses in allied subjects 25 List of allied subjects . 26 Instruction in Section B 27 24. Instruction in Section A. — For Section A the instruction will be partly military and partly in allied subjects that have value as a means of training officers and experts to meet the needs of the service. The average number of hours to be devoted each week to those subjects will be as follows : a. Military subjects, including practical instruction (drill, etc.), theoretical military instruction, and physical training — 11 hours. &. Allied subjects, including lectures, recitations, laboratory instruction and the necessary preparation therefor — 42 hours. (Each hour of lecture or recitation will ordinarily require two hours 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 year at an approved institution such studies as form part of the program of preparation for the Chemical Warfare Service, the Medical Corps, the Engineer Corps, the Ordnance Corps, or other technical branches of the service, the Committee on Edu- cation and Special Training may authorize a reduction in the hours of military instruction (including practical military in- 12 STTJDENTS' AEMY TRAINING CORPS REGULATIONS. struction, theoretical military instruction, and physical train- ing) to not less than six hours per week, provided that the reduction is made good by the substitution of a corresponding number of additional hours of instruction in approved technical subjects. Provision will be made for approving general programs, as well as technical and special programs, in medicine, engineering, chemistry, and other technical courses. 25. Approval of courses in allied siil3jects, — The Committee on Education and Special Training will furnish from time to time suggestions regarding the treatment of allied subjects that are chosen as parts of the curriculum. District educational directors (Section A) are authorized to approve courses which they 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 allied subject, of not more than one subject outside the above list, provided that it occupies not more than three hours per week in lectures and recitations with corresponding time for study. In the case of technical and professional schools provision wall be made for approving general programs of study containing subjects other than those included in the above list of allied subjects. 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 a minimum for Section A of three classroom hours per week, with corresponding time for study, covering three terms, or the requirement may be met by a course or courses in history, gov- ernment, economics, philosophy, or modern literature where those courses are so planned as, in the opinion of the educa- tional director (Section A), to accomplish substantially the same purpose. The district educational director (Section A) may empower colleges to excuse from this course : STUDENTS' ARMY TRAININQ CORPS REGTILATIONS. IS a. 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 have already had at least two years of work of collegiate grade in an approved institution and who should be required to concentrate the 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 each case determine the acceptance of the subject as well as the amount of credit to be assigned to it as an allied military sub- ject. This credit may vary according to the branch of the service for which the student is preparing, e. g., Field Artillery, Medical Corps, or Engineering Corps. 27. Instruction in Section B. — For Section B the average number 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 training — 15^ hours. &. Vocational subjects — 33 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 29 Use of Government property 30 Issue of Government property , SX B,equisitions . 32 Shipments 33 Storage and cleaning , 34 Loss or damage . 35 Sale or pledge ^ — ., _ 36 Insignia 37 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 be furnished complete as far as practicable. &. The number and kinds of arms and equipment to be issued will, so far as praticable, conform to those prescribed for the Army. 30. Use of Oovernment property. — ^No article of Govern- ment uniform or equipment, issued under the provisions of the foregoing paragraphs, shall be used except to uniform members of 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 will 6e accountable to the Government for same. Requisitions and returns for Government property must be prepared in accord- ance with the regulations governing the respective supply de- partments concerned. 32. Kequisitions. — Requisitions for Government property will be sent by the commanding officer to the Committee on Education and Special Training, who, after approving, will forward them to the proper source of supply. 33. Shipments. — Authorized shipments of Government prop- erty from depots, arsenals, or armories to institutions, and authorized return shipments of such property from institu- tions to depots, arsenals, or armories will be made on regular form of Government bill of lading at the expense of the United Staies. 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 Government property must be kept in serviceable condition. A proper allow- ance of cleaning material and spare parts will be issued so far 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 the War Department, and strict adherence to same is enjoined upon all concerned. 35. Loss or damage. — Action concerning the loss, damage, or unserviceability of Government property will be in accordance with Army Regulations. STUDENTS' AIIMY TEAINING CORPS REGULATIONS. 16 §C Sale or pledge. — The sale or pledge of any article of unif 01x11, arms, or equipment by an enlisted man is an offense punishable by court-martial. 37. Insignia. — Members of the Students' Army Training Corps will wear, with the service hat, an olive-drab cord. They will wear as collar insignia a bronze disk bearing the letters " U. S." Acting noncommissioned officers of the Students' Army Train- ing Corps will wear the chevrons prescribed for noncommis- sioned officers of the Army. O LIBRftRY OF CONGRESS 02Q 914 324