The English of military communications

Name: The English of military communications
Author: Ganoe, William Addleman

Ganoe, William Addleman

English language -- Rhetoric; Military orders; United States. Army -- Records and correspondence

4. Copies of the publication entitled “War Department
  Correspondence File” and Circular No. 1, War Department, March 24,
  1914, explaining and giving instructions as to the operation of
  this system, will be supplied by The Adjutant General of the Army
  upon application direct.

  By order of Colonel Biddle:

                                                   C. C. CARTER,
                                                     Major, C. A. C.,
                                                           _Adjutant_.


If a Post General Order covers a court-martial case tried by a
general court, the order number will appear thus:

  General Court-Martial }
      Orders, No. 4.    }


If it covers one tried by a special court, it will appear thus:

  Special Court-Martial }
      Orders, No. 4.    }


The separate battalion or company would issue _orders_ on the same
general plan as post general orders. The order number would appear
thus:

  Orders: }
  No. 6.  }


SPECIAL ORDERS differ from _General Orders_ in that the former refer
to individuals.

Here is an example of a War Department Special Order.

  SPECIAL ORDERS }                                WAR DEPARTMENT,
      No. 289.   }                    Washington, December 11, 1916.

  1. The leave of absence on account of sickness granted John J.
  Nobbo, First Lieutenant, 13th Cavalry, in Special Orders, No.
  196, War Department, August 22, 1916, is extended three months on
  surgeon’s certificate of disability, and upon the expiration of
  this leave Lieut. Nobbo will report to the commanding officer, Fort
  Riley, Kan., for examination as to his physical condition by the
  surgeon at the post.

       *       *       *       *       *

These Special Orders then take up twenty different individuals in
twenty paragraphs and end with,—

  22. Capt. Alfred W. Perkins, Infantry, Detached Officers’ List,
  will repair to this city and report in person to the Chief of Staff
  for duty in connection with the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps,
  and upon completion of this duty will return to his proper station.
  The travel directed is necessary in the military service.

     (2503282, A. G. O.)
  By Order of The Secretary of War:

                                                   H. L. SCOTT,
                                        Major General, Chief of Staff.
  OFFICIAL:
    H. P. McCAIN,
      The Adjutant General.


The separate paragraphs are also made up into extract copies as
follows:

  SPECIAL ORDERS, }
      No. 289.    }

                                                 WAR DEPARTMENT,
                                        Washington, December 11, 1916.

  _Extract_

       *       *       *       *       *

  3. Private Clifford H. Worthington, Military Academy Detachment
  of Field Artillery, West Point, N. Y., is transferred as private
  second class to the Ordnance Department and is assigned to duty at
  that post.

       *       *       *       *       *

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The English of military communications

Ganoe, William Addleman

English language -- Rhetoric; Military orders; United States. Army -- Records and correspondence

4. Copies of the publication entitled “War Department
  Correspondence File” and Circular No. 1, War Department, March 24,
  1914, explaining and giving instructions as to the operation of
  this system, will be supplied by The Adjutant General of the Army
  upon application direct.

  By order of Colonel Biddle:

                                                   C. C. CARTER,
                                                     Major, C. A. C.,
                                                           _Adjutant_.


If a Post General Order covers a court-martial case tried by a
general court, the order number will appear thus:

  General Court-Martial }
      Orders, No. 4.    }


If it covers one tried by a special court, it will appear thus:

  Special Court-Martial }
      Orders, No. 4.    }


The separate battalion or company would issue _orders_ on the same
general plan as post general orders. The order number would appear
thus:

  Orders: }
  No. 6.  }


SPECIAL ORDERS differ from _General Orders_ in that the former refer
to individuals.

Here is an example of a War Department Special Order.

  SPECIAL ORDERS }                                WAR DEPARTMENT,
      No. 289.   }                    Washington, December 11, 1916.

  1. The leave of absence on account of sickness granted John J.
  Nobbo, First Lieutenant, 13th Cavalry, in Special Orders, No.
  196, War Department, August 22, 1916, is extended three months on
  surgeon’s certificate of disability, and upon the expiration of
  this leave Lieut. Nobbo will report to the commanding officer, Fort
  Riley, Kan., for examination as to his physical condition by the
  surgeon at the post.

       *       *       *       *       *

These Special Orders then take up twenty different individuals in
twenty paragraphs and end with,—

  22. Capt. Alfred W. Perkins, Infantry, Detached Officers’ List,
  will repair to this city and report in person to the Chief of Staff
  for duty in connection with the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps,
  and upon completion of this duty will return to his proper station.
  The travel directed is necessary in the military service.

     (2503282, A. G. O.)
  By Order of The Secretary of War:

                                                   H. L. SCOTT,
                                        Major General, Chief of Staff.
  OFFICIAL:
    H. P. McCAIN,
      The Adjutant General.


The separate paragraphs are also made up into extract copies as
follows:

  SPECIAL ORDERS, }
      No. 289.    }

                                                 WAR DEPARTMENT,
                                        Washington, December 11, 1916.

  _Extract_

       *       *       *       *       *

  3. Private Clifford H. Worthington, Military Academy Detachment
  of Field Artillery, West Point, N. Y., is transferred as private
  second class to the Ordnance Department and is assigned to duty at
  that post.

       *       *       *       *       *

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

The English of military communications

The English of military communications

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