THE STORY 'OF THE UNIFORM of THE ‘J.S.ARIIY:
(By Col*Laurence A.Curtis, N.S.A*~ Reprinted ^ron Florida N*u*
"Sound-Off11. Date of issue Hay 1st, 1923)
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"In 1821 Pi e si dent Jackson, in Amy Regulations approved
by Congress, declared dark b-!-ue to be the national color,tnough scarlet
was still ’Torn by nuclei an s and grey by the Corps of Cadets* Trousers
Jf were white in sorrier, and in winter dark blue for the staff, and for the line
V line a sky-blue mixture of blue and white,much the sane as the French
"horizon blue"* This gave way for the darker light blue with which ’’ve
are faniliar in 1885*
In 1832 the spread eagle appeared on the colonel’s ep
aulettes* No insignia was adopted for the lower grades* All officers
now wore two epaulettes of a distinctive pattern and size for general,
field,and staff officers* Leaves cane for the lieutenant colonel,and
bars for the captain and first Lieutenant 3oon after * Die najor^s ep
aulette was plain,he teeing the junior wearing the field officer s epau
lette; the second lieutenant’s also was plain* To show up on the shank
of the epaulette,the insignia was in silver for the gold,and in gold
for the silver epaulette*"
( To be c ontinued),
SEMI-AUT0I4ATIC RIFLE DEVELOF'ED:
Fires a Shot per Second:
"John Garand, an enployee at the Springfield Armory,
has invented a rifle capable of firing sixty shots per minute*
The rifle has been tested at the Aberdeen Proving
Grounds,arid has demonstrated that it is a weapon vastly superior to
anything similar now in use*
Past tests with the rixle with which the U.S.Army
has been equipped indicate that a maxirum ox but twenty five shots
'per niniite was possible» Infantrymen, if equipped with the new weapon,
will be enabled to largely supplement tno machine gun fire both for
defensive and offensive cormat.
The Gar and rifle is reported to be about the weight
of the rifle with which ‘' he Infantry is nov/ equipped.and to be fully
as powerful and accurate.,’'
(Inf* School "tiew3,i, r°t cBenning, Ga*)
HE SHOULD HAVE RE-UPEDU
” A former Chief of the
perial Russian Navy, au AbJ-al. is now enp j oy
a Paris office, at a outay of 4 7 fO per me
OonerfcJ Staff of the Im
ea as a copying clerk in
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