History of the Army Ground Forces. Study Number 14. Problems of Nondivisional Training in the Army Ground Forces

摘要

Npndivisional units activated and trained by the Army Ground Forces (AGF) were of two principal types: combat and service. Combat units consisted mainly of antiaircraft, cavalry, coast artillery, field artillery, infantry, tank and tank destroyer organizations. Service units included machine records, medical, military police, ordnance, and quartermaster organizations. Chemical, engineer, and signal units were in one or the other of these classes depending on the nature of their functions and associations. The ratio of combat to service units in Army Ground Forces varied from time to time, but during the first year of the AGF period the aggregate strength of the former was roughly twice that of the latter. Subsequently, there was an increase in the relative strength of the combat units in Army Ground Forces. Throughout 1944 and the early months of 1945 approximately three-fourths of nondivisional strength in Army Ground Forces was in combat units. It seems safe to conclude that despite many difficulties of personnel, equipment, and supervision, the training of nondivisional units improved during most of the AGF period and that units leaving port in the early months of 1945 were considerably better qualified for performing their missions than were those sent overseas in 1942.