For Coast Artillery School, School of Fire for Field Artillery, School of Musketry, School for Bakers and Cooks, Post schools for the instruction of enlisted men, Garrison schools for the instruction of officers in sub jects pertaining to the performance of their ordinary duties and the military departments of civil institutions at which officers of the army are detailed under the provisions of law, see MILITARY EDUCATION.
Army Field Engineer School.— The ob ject of this school is (1) the instruction of officers of the corps of engineers and of engineer officers of the organized militia in their military duties ; (2) To furnish such instruction in military engineering as the schedules of the other schools comprising the Army Service School may call for. There is detailed a field officer of the corps of en gineers to report to the commandant of the Army Service Schools for duty as director of the Army Feld Engineer School. Selections of student officers will be made as follows : (a) The chief of engineers may submit to the ad jutant-general of the army, not later than 1 January of each year, the names of not less than 2 nor more than 10 officers of the corps of engineers, of grade not below that of captain, for instruction in the school. (b) There may also be detailed such engineer officers of the organizeli militia as may apply for entrance, subject to certain provisions. The course of study is embraced in two de partments, as follows: (1) The department of military engineering, (2) The department of military art.
Army Field Service School for Medical Officers.— This school consists of two parts: (1) The Field Service School for Medical Officers, at which attendance in person for the pursuance of a graded course of study is required; (2) The Correspondence School, wherein answers and solutions to such ques tions and problems as may be sent to desig nated medical officers, at their posts or sta tions, are required. Its object is in the Field Service School: (a) To instruct officers of the medical corps and medical officers of the organized militia in their duties as adminis trative and staff officers on field service, and to make research into such subjects as may concern medical officers under field conditions.
(b) To give such technical instruction to stu dents in the other schools as the schedules of those schools, approved by the commandant, may call for. In the Correspondence School: (c) To afford opportunity for such wider ele mentary instruction in the methods and pur poses of military plans and movements as will enable medical officers of the regular army better to fulfil their duties in the field; and to prepare them to participate to better advantage as students in actual attendance at the Field Service School for Medical Officers. There is detailed a field officer of the medical corps to report to the commandant of the Army Schools for duty as director of the Army Field Service and Correspondence School for Medical Officers. The course of study is con ducted under the School for Medical Officers and covers a period of not less than six weeks between 1 April and 15 Max of each year.
Selection of student officers is made as fol lows: (a) The surgeon-general will submit to the adjutant-general of the army not later than 1 January of each year the names of not less than four nor more than eight officers of the medical corps whom he recommends for Medical officers of the organized militia who may apply for entrance and whose admission detail for construction in this school. (b) may receive the approval of the Secretary of War, not to exceed a total of six in any one session, may also be detailed for instruction in the school subject to certain provisions. The course of study is conducted under the Field Service School for Medical Officers, the Army Staff College and the Army Field Engineer School. Its details are prepared by the director of the Army Field Service and Correspond ence School for Medical Officers, in co-opera tion with the directors of the Army Staff Col lege and the Army Field Engineer School sub ject to the approval of the commandant.
Army Signal School.—The object of this school is: (1) To prepare officers of the signal corps for the better performance of the duties of their profession, to provide instruction in signal duties for such officers of the line as may be designated therefor, and to make re search and practical experiments in such sub jects as relate to the duties of the signal corps. (2) To supplement the instruction given in the Army School of the Line and the Army Staff College along the. special technical lines of the signal corps, as called for by the sched ules of the latter schools, having especially in view the relation of the signal corps to the whole army and the function it fulfils in time of war. There is detailed a field officer of the signal corps to report to the commandant of the Army Service Schools for duty as di rector of the Army Signal School. Selections of student officers are made as follows: (a) The chief signal officer of the army may sub mit to the adjutant-general of the army, not later than 1 January of each year, the names of not less than two nor more than five officers holding permanent appointments in the signal corps for instruction in the schooL (b) Also there may be detailed such officers of the rank of captain or first lieutenant from the army at large as may make application to the adju tant-general of the army and receive the recommendation of the commandant of the Army Service Schools, provided that the total number of officers detailed under (a) and (b). exclusive of militia officers, shall not exceed 15; also such signal officers of the organized militia as may apply for entrance, subject to certain provisions. The course of study is embraced in three departments, as follows: (1) The department of signal engineering; (2) The department of topographs; (3) The department of languages.
The whole scheme of the army schools results from a fixed policy, the object of which is to make the arm as perfect as pos sible, not only in the rmance of its own duties, but in its capacity as instructor for the hundreds of thousands of citizen soldiers necessary in any war of magnitude. See MILITARY EDUCATION.