Army's Strength

Major General Robert C. Davis, Adjutant General of the Army, re ported that as of June 30, 1924, the U. S. Army (active) consisted of : Commissioned Officers 11,655 Warrant Officers 1,065 Enlisted Men 128,223 Total 140,943* Army Nurses 675 West Point Cadets 666 Contract Surgeons 30 Army Field Clerks 220 Quartermaster Field Clerks 167 Grand Total 142,701* The distribution of the Army was: Continental U.S. 104,286 Hawaii 13,096 Phillipines 11,808 Panama Canal Zone 8,880 China 977 Alaska 393 Europe (Graves Registration Service) 5 Military Attaches, etc. 187

-- Includes 118 commissioned officers of the Philippine Scouts and 7,115 enlisted men of the same service, 7,233 in all. The maximum authorized enlisted strength of the Army is 125,000 (exclusive of Philippine Scouts). Ergo, the Army was about 4,000 enlisted men below maximum. The current appropriations provide for an average enlisted strength of only 118,750.