ALL INCOMPETENTS IN ARMY MUST GO.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14787, 14 December 1918, Page 8

ALL INCOMPETENTS IN ARMY MUST GO.

WASHINGTON; D. G., Oct. 15. ,_ The •War Defparthieint ! as conducting a yigordus campaign loblcine to the weeding .oilt of incompetent officexs. ■_ _It" has been fouu,d iis a result, of the investigation that many officers probably have been misplaced and cau do well m branches other than those m which thejr aJie serving. .:■..-■ With 'a view' to reteining officer^ who may have qualifications for valuable service m other I 'branched, inidividual taa'ds iuid Qther' evidence 'is being carefully studied. ; Whenevei' the average of a a-ating or i-evised rating: of an officer falls below 45 points it will be reviewed by the Per" eoMinel Board. . , . . '■■ Wdien the rating jb verified- as falling below* teh required point • of efficiency, tlio commanding 1 officer m each instance Avdlr necommehd to .tH© Adjutant General that the officer, in 1 ' question be placed upoii probation until', the next rating, ,ti;ansferi l ed. to. another 'rbrajicih of the servico oj? disoharged outright. When a man -is placed, on probation and still canmot make' a' rating df- 45 or higher he wM bte j discharged. 13fficiency is becoming the l'ule all along the -line -so; far asofficere are concchied, regaiUdless of; their i\ink.