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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE SERVICE OF INFORMATION. THE SIGNAL CORPS AS AN AUXILIARY BRANCH OF THE ARMY. It is a matter of common knowledge in this country that a soldier is a fighting man whose services are due to the state; that there exist in the regular army soldiers of infantry who march and fight on foot; cavalry troopers who ride a horse; and artillerymen who serve the guns. It may even be known that engineer troops exist who belong to the line and perform the ordinary duties of the soldier in addition to their special service as engineers. But how few people realize, even if they know, that attached to all armies there must be, in addition to the men whose first duty is to fight, other bodies of troops whose services are absolutely needed for the proper conduct of military affairs; soldiers who while they are combattant troops are charged primarily with duties technical in character and requiring special training and organization. That in fact in every properly organized army there exist, in addition to the men who carry a rifle or a saber or who man the guns, certain auxiliary and special troops upon whom the success of campaigns depend, and by whose services alone can the general in command hope to intelligently meet his enemy and oppose him with an adequate force properly supplied with food, ammunition, and the thousand needs of an army. These troops are not as essential to success when the shock of contact comes as are the guns and sabers of the fighting line, nevertheless they are indispensable to every armed force and without their aid no mobility can exist, no battle be engaged, no knowledge of conditions be obtained. An army fights with its guns, therefore it must have powder; it fights on its belly and the belly must be fed; in these days, too, it fights with its brain and th...
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