Pay in the United States Army and Navy

Source: The Official Rates of those Departments
PAY IN THE ARMY

PAY IN THE NAVY
Army yearly pay-General, Chief of Staff, $8,000; Navy yearly pay---Admiral, $8,000; Vice Admiral,
Lieutenant General, Army Commander $8.000;

$8.000: Rear Admiral, $6,000 to $8.000; Captain, Major General, $8,000; Brigadier General, $6,000; $3.500 to $6,000; Commander$3,000 to $5,750; Colonel, $3,500 to $4,000, according to length of

Lieutenant Commander, $2,400 to $5,250; Lieutenservice; Lieutenant Colonel, $3,000 to $4,000; Major,

ant, $2,000 to $4,500; Lieutenant (junior grade), $2,400 to $3,500; Captain, $2,000 to $3,000; First

$1,500 to $3,600; Ensign, $1,500 to $3,000; Warrant

Officers, $1,836 to $4,500. Lieutenant, $1,500 to $2,400; Second Lieutenant, $1,500 to $2,000; Warrant officers, $1,776 to $2,220. Petty Officer. $60 to $126. Nonrated men, $21 to $54.

Monthly pay-Petty Officer, third class to Chief Monthly pay-Pay of enlisted men according to Base pay is not all, extra allowances per month grade. $21 to $157.50.

are paid on special details, and permanent addiAdditional pay per month for special qualifica- tions for medals of honor. tions in the use of arms, etc., and for Distinguished

A Navy recruit is designated an apprentice seaService awards.

man upon enlistment and is also paid a basic wage

of $21 a month. He is sent to a naval training A recruit who enters the Army receives a base station for a course of training. Following this pay of $21 & month as a private. There is no auto- course, he is transferred to general service at sea matic promotion in grade. Ex-members of the unless selected for special service school instruction. Army, Coast Guard, Marine Corps and Naval After 4 months' total service, including recruit Reserve who reenlist are promoted in 1 month in training, an apprentice seaman is promoted to place of 4 months, provided their previous service seaman second class, and seamen second class may and training warrant such advancement.

be rated firemen third class as vacancies occur, if Enlisted Men's additional pay per month and selected for engineering duty. The monthly pay qualifications--Use of fire arms, first class. $5 of these ratings is $36. second class, $4; third class, $3; fourth class, $2;

Bonuses paid to sailors and non-commissioned Afth class, $1. Medal of Honor, $2; Distinguished officers of the Navy for re-enlistment are doubled Service Cross, $2; Distinguished Service Medal, $2;

under a new law. Distinguished Flying Cross, $2; Soldier's Medal, $2. Heretofore petty officers have received re-enlistFor each bar in lieu of Medal of Honor, Dis

ment bonuses of $50 for each year of service, with tinguished Service Cross, Medal, Flying Cross or

a limit of $300. Enlisted men's bonuses were $25 Soldiers' Medal, $2.

for each year served, with a limit of $150. Rates of pay at Military Academy--Professor,

Enlisted Men's additional pay per month and

qualifications-For each Medal of Honor, Disover 10 years' service, pay of Colonel; Professor,

tinguished Service Medal or Navy Cross, $2; deless than 10 years' service, pay of Lieutenant

tailed as messmen, $5: detailed as mail clerks, $15 Colonel; Chaplain, $4,000 per annum; Teacher of

to $30; assistant mail clerks, $10; (at Naval Station, Music, pay of 1st Lieutenant; Cadet, $780 per Guantanamo

Cuba), $15; designated as annum.

divers, $10 to $30; (plus $5 an hour for each hour Pay of nurses (monthly)--Less than 3 years' or fraction thereof while employed in diving in service, $70; over 3 years' service, $90; over 6 actual operations in depths over 90 feet); duty on years' service, $115; over 9 years' service, $130. board submarines. $5 to $30; (depending on deIn addition to pay as nurse: Superintendent, tail. rating and qualifications); listeners on sub$208.33; Assistant Superintendent. $125; Chief marines, $2; qualified sound operators, $2; Sonic Nurse, $50.

repairmen, $2; qualincation in the use of arms, Retired pay--Pay of retired officers varies ac

$1 to $5. Fifty per cent increase in pay of the cording to rank and years of service.

rating when individual flight orders have been

issued and the required number of Aights are made. Enlisted men are entitled to 75 per centum of

Retired pay and the Reserve After thirty years' the pay they may be in receipt of and allowances.

service, an enlisted man may retire on three-fourths Service members rates of pay in the following of the pay of his rating including all permanent branches of service are based on Army and Navy additions plus $15.75 allowances, making a total tables of pay scales: Marine Corps--Army. Coast of $133.88 a month of a chief petty officer with Guard-Navy. Coast and Geodetic Survey --Navy. permanent appointment.

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U. S. War and Other Appropriations, 1941, 1942

Fiscal year 1942:
Appropriations enacted.

14,645,279,287 5,683,847,907 1,640,332,250 21,969,459,444
Contract authorizations enacted.. 183,145,695 41,448,894 1,287,000,000 1,511,594,589
Pending before Congress
Appropriations

120,996,000 16,957.725 137,953,725 Subtotal....

14,828, 124,982 5,846,292,801 2,944,289.975 23,619,007,758 Deduct cash included to liquidate 1941 contract authorizations. 3,357,373,076 615,453,690 235,653,000 4,208,479,766 Net total, 1942....

11.471,051,906 5,230,839,111 2,708,636.975 19,410,527,992 Net total 1941 and 1942,

24,754.628,978 9,697,125,56% 4,304,808,883 38,756,563,429 Defense Aid Appropriation Act, 1941.

7.000.000.000 Additional Defense aid (pending)

5.985,000,000 Estimated appropriations required beyond 1942 to complete construction of the expanded Návy

8,413,000,000 Total

60,154,563,429 Generals and Lieutenant Generals of the U. S. Army George Washington held the rank of General States shall be appointed and commissioned by and Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army the style of 'general of the armies of the United from June 15, 1775, to Dec. 23. 1783. He was

States': and the present office and title of lieuappointed lieutenant general and Commander-in

tenant general shall thereafter be abolished." Chief of the United States Army on July 3, 1798.

While the purpose of this legislation was unThe office of "general" under the present form

doubtedly to confer the title of general upon of Government was first established by section 9,

Washington, no record has been found in this office

to show that the appointment was ever made. of the act approved March 3, 1799, while Wash- The following-named officers served in the United ington was holding the office of commander with States Army in the grades of general and lieurank of lieutenant general, and which provided tenant general, respectively, during the time speci"that a commander of the Army of the United | fed after each name:

GENERALS
*Ulysses S. Grant, July 25, 1866 to March 4, 1869.
*William T. Sherman, March 4, 1869 to Feb. 8, 1884.
*Philip H. Sheridan, June 1, 1888 to Aug. 5, 1888.
*John J. Pershing, (Oct. 6, 1917–Emergency) (Sept. 3, 1919—(a) Permanent).
(b) Tasker H. Bliss, Oct. 6. 1917 to May 19, 1918.
b) Peyton C. March, May 20, 1918 to June 30, 1920.
(c) Charles P. Summerall, Feb. 23, 1929 to Nov. 20, 1930.
(c) Douglas MacArthur, Nov. 21, 1930 to Oct. 1, 1935.
(c) Malin Craig, Oct. 2, 1935 to Aug. 31, 1939.

(c) George C. Marshall, Sept. 1, 1939John L. Hines held office as Chief of Staff of title of General of the Armies of the United States, the Army, with rank of Major General, from (b) Did not hold the grade of general in the Sept. 14, 1924 to Nov. 20, 1926 and retired in the Regular Army, but by the act of Congress apgrade of major general. He was advanced to the proved June 21, 1930, both became full generals on grade of General on the retired list under the pro- the Regular Army retired list. This act gives warvisions of a special act of Congress approved time rank, without increased pay or allowance, to June 15, 1940.

officers and former officers of the United States "Generals of the Army or of the Armies of the Army, upon their retirement from active service, United States (both phrases being held to mean (c) Temporary rank while holding the office of the same thing).

Chief of Staff, as provided by an act of Congress (a) Retired Sept. 13, 1924, with the rank and approved Feb. 23, 1929.

LIEUTENANT GENERALS (b)-George Washington (July 3, 1798); Ulysses S. Grant (March 2, 1864); William T. Sherman (July 25, 1866); Philip H. Sheridan (March 4, 1869); John M. Schofield (Feb. 8, 1895); Nelson A. Miles (June 6, 1900).

Samuel B. M. Young (Aug. 8, 1903); Adna R. Chaffee (Jan. 9, 1904); John C. Bates (Feb. 1, 1906); Henry C. Corbin (April 15, 1906); Arthur MacArthur (Sept. 15, 1906); Hunter Liggett (Oct. 16, 1918); Robert L. Bullard (Oct. 16, 1918); Edgar Jadwin (retired Aug. 7, 1929, with rank of Lieutenant General, Act, March 4, 1915); Hugh A. Drum (Aug. 5, 1939); Stanley H. Ford (Aug. 5, 1939).

Stanley D. Embick (Aug. 5, 1939); Albert J. Bowley (Aug. 5, 1939); John L. DeWitt (Dec. 5, 1939); Charles D. Herron (July 31, 1940); Daniel Van Voorhis (July 31, 1940); Herbert J. Brees (Oct. 1, 1940); Ben Lear (Oct. 1, 1940); Walter C. Short (Feb. 8, 1941); Walter Krueger (May 16, 1941); Frank M Andrews (Sept. 19, 1941); Delos C. Emmons (**) (Nov. 16, 1940); Lesley J. McNair (June 9, 1941).

**Delos C. Emmons accepted his commission as a Lieutenant General on Nov. 16, 1940, but his date of rank is Oct. 25, 1940,

(b) Liggett and Bullard did not hold the grade in the Regular Army. Jadwin saw no active service in the grade but retired (Aug. 7, 1929) with the rank of lieutenant general, as provided by an act of Congress (approved Mar. 4, 1915). .

Drum to Andrews, inclusive, held temporary rank while in command of one of the four armies of the United States Army (pursuant to an act of Congress approved Aug. 5, 1939), or while in command of the Hawaiian or Panama Canal Departments, (pursuant to act of Congress approved July 31, 1940).

Winfield Scott held the rank of Brevet Lieutenant General from March 29, 1847 to Nov. 1, 1861.

Number of Guns in U. S. Army and Navy Salutes

(From the Service Regulations)

Rank

Rank

Salute
guns Ruffles

and
Depar. flour-
Arrival ture ishes

Salute -guns (Ruffles

and Depar- flour. Arrival ture Ishes

17 17 17 17 17 15

17 17

President
Ex-President
Chiet magistrate or sov-

ereign of & foreign
country
Members of a reigning

royal family ... Vice President American or foreign am

bassador... High com. or other diplo

matic omcer equal or su

perior to an ambas..
Secretary of War
Members of Cabinet
Pres. pro tempo of Senate
Governor of a State.
The Chief Justice.
General of the Armies.
Assist, Secretary of War.
Assist. Secre. of Navy
Gov. Gen. of the Philip-

pine Isl. and Gov. of
Territ. foreig. posses,
within limits of their

respect. jurisdictions
Speaker of the House of

Representatives
A committee of Congress.
Chief of Staff..
Former Chief of Stall.
General ..
Vice Gov. of Philip. Isl.
Ameri, envoys or minis.

and foreign envoys or

minis. accred, to the U.S.
Lieutenant general
Major general
Ameri. minis. resid. and

minis. resid. accred to

the United States
Ameri. charges d'affaires

and charges d'affaires

accred. to United States. Brigadier general.. Consuls general accredited

to the United States Cons. accred, to U.S... Vice

cons. or consular agents accred. to U.S...

19

13

19 19 19 19 19 19 19 17 17

2

19
17

Military Posts and Camps in Continental United States

Source: Army Records as of Oct. 31, 1941 (Note: Strength of military personnel at stations having less than 1,000 not shown.)

8,100 1,400 1,800

2,200 3,700

1,200

1,500 1,900 1.100 19.500 5,800

2,000 1,100

2,800 17,300

46,800

45,900 25,600

2,500

1,200

25,300 2,500

56,500

2.900 1.100

8,100

11.300

1.700

27,000 1,600

1,700 MILITARY POSTS AND CAMPS IN CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES—Continued

Post or Camp

Post Office Address

Approx.
Stgth.

2.600 2.400 17.200 2,200

20,700

1,400 18.300

1,700

24,000

29,500

2,800

1,200 2,700

4,000 27,400 3.400 3,900

15.500

27.500

Craig Field

Selma, Ala. Crockett, Fort.

Galveston, Texas. Croft, Camp

Camp Croft, 8. C. Cronkhite, Fort.

Fort Baker, Callt. Crook, Fort

Fort Crook, Nebr. Crowder, Camp.

Neosho, Mo. Cuero Municipal Airport

Cuero, Texas. Curtis Bay Ordnance Depot.

South Baltimore Md Curtis Field

Brady, Texas. Custer, Fort.

Fort Custer, Mich. Daniel Field.

Augusta, GA. Davis, Camp.

Camp Davis, N. C. Dawes, Fort

Deer Island, Mass. Delaware, Fort

Fort Delaware, Del. Delaware Ordnance Depot

Pedricktown, N. J. Denver Ordnance Plant.

Denver, Colo. Des Moines, Fort.

Fort Des Moines, Iowa. DeSoto, Fort..

Tampa, Fla. Detrick Field.

Frederick, MD, Detroit Tank Arsenal.

28251 Van Dyke Rd., Detroit, Mich Devens, Fort

Fort Devens, Mass District of Columbia Rifle Range Carnp Simms, D. C. Dix, Fort,

Fort Dix, N. J.. Dixie Ordnance Works.

Sterlington, La. Dodge, Camp.

Herrold, low&. Dothan Air Corps Facility.

Dothan, Ala.. Douglas, Fort.

Fort Douglas, Utah Drew Field

Tampa, Fla.. Dryden Airport.

Dryden, Texas Duncan Field.

Ban Antonio, Texas. DuPont, Fort.

Fort DuPont, Del. Duvall, Fort.

Winthrop Station, Boston, Mass Edgewood Arsenal.

Edgewood Arsenal, Md. Edwards, Camp.

Camp Edwards, Mass Eglin Field

Air Corps Proving Ground, Eglin Field, Fla. Ellington Field.

Houston, Tex. Elwood Ordnance Loading Plant. Jollet, ni. English Field.

Amarillo, Texas. Enld Air Corps Facility

Enid, Okla Erie Proving Ground.

Lacarne, Ohio Esler Field...

Camp Beauregard, La. Eustis, Fort...

Fort Eustis. Va Fairfax Airport

Kansas City, Kans Fairfield Air Depot,

Fairfield, Ohio. Fitzsimons General Hospital

Denver, Colo. Flagler, Fort.

Port Townsend, Wash Forrest, Camp.

Camp Forrest, Tenn Foster, Fort

Kittery, Me Fostoria Plant, C. W. 8.

Fostoria, Ohio. Frankford Arsenal

Bridesburg Sta., Philadelphia, Pa. Fresno Army Air Base.

Fresno, Calit Front Royal Quartermaster Depot Front Royal, Va. Funston, Fort

Fort Winfeld Scott, Calif. Gadsden Ordnance Plant.

Gadsden, Ala.. Gardner Field..

Talt, Calir. Geiger Field.

Spokane, Wash Getty, Fort

Jamestown, R. I Glendale Air Corps Facility.

Glendale, Ariz Glendale Grand Central Air Terminal Glendale, Calif. Godman Field.

Fort Knox, Ky Goodfellow Field.

San Angelo, Tex. Gordon, Camp.

Augusta, Ga.. Gowen Field.

Boise, Idaho. Grant, Camp.

Camp Grant, III. Gray Fleld.

Fort Lewis, Wash Greble, Fort

Jamestown, R.I. Greene, Fort Nathaniel.

Narragansett, R.I.. Greenville Air Corps Facility

Greenville, Miss. Grider Field

Pine Bluff, Ark Gunter Field

Gunter Field, Ala Haan, Camp

Camp Haan, Calif Hamilton Feld.

Hamilton Field, Calil Hamilton, Fort

Brooklyn, N. Y. Hancock, Fort.

Fort Hancock, N. J Harlingen Airport

Harlingen, Texas. Harrisburg Municipal Airport

Harrisburg. Pa. Harrison, Fort Benjamin.

Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind. Hatbox Field

Muskogee, Okla. Hayes, Fort.

Columbus, Ohio.. Heath, Fort

Winthrop Station, Boston, Mass Hemnet Air Corps Facility.

Hemet, Calil.. Hensley Field.

Grand Prairie, Tex. Hicks Field

Fort Worth, Texas. Higley A. C. Facility

Higley, Ariz.
Hul Fleld..

Ogden, Utah.
HII Military Reservation, A. P. Mica, Va
Hof General Hospital

Santa Barbara, Calif.
Holabird Quartermaster Depot. Baltimore, Md.
Hoiman Airport.

St. Paul, Minn, Hoosier Ordnance Plant.

Charlestown, Ind Houston, Fort Sam

Fort Sam Houston, Tex. Huachuca, Fort.

Fort Huachuca, Ariz. Hulen, Camp

Camp Hulen, Tex. Hunter Liggett Military Reservation..Jolon, Calil Huntsville Arsenal. Alabama.

Huntsville, Ala. Illinois Ordnance Plant...

Marion, ni..

2,100 1,100

9.600

2,200 9,000 4,000 1,000 3,800

4,200

2,100

1,900

23,700 14.500 11,800

MILITARY POSTS AND CAMPS IN CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES-Continued

Approx.
Stgth.

16,600

39.900

2,100 6,700

6,400

4,400

1,400

38,000

7,900

1,200

2,800 25,000

43,000

Post or Camp

Post Office Address
Indiana Ordnance Works.

Charlestown, Ind.
Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, A. P. O. No. 28, Indiantown Gap Miltary Reserve-

tion, Pa. Iowa Ordnance Plant.

Burlington, Iowa Jackson Army Air Base.

Jackson, Miss. Jackson, Fort ..

Fort Jackson, S. C. Jackson Barracks.

New Orleans, La. Jacksonville Municipal Airport. Jacksonville, Fla Jay, Fort..

Governors Island, N. Y Jefferson Barracks

Jefferson Barracks, Mo.
Jefferson Proving Ground.

Madison, Ind..
Jettersonville Quartermaster Depot. Jeffersonville, Ind
Jersey City Quartermaster Depot. 26 Exchange Place, Jersey City, N. J.
Kankakee Ordnance Works.

Joilet, m.
Kansas City Municipal Airport.. Kansas City, Mo.
Kansas City Quartermaster Depot. Independence and Hardesty Aves., Kansas City, Mo.
Kearney, Fort Philip..

Saunderstown, R. I.
Keesler Field

Biloxi, Miss....
Kellogg Field (see Battle Creek
Municipal Airport).

Battle Creek, Mich.
Kelly Field...

Kelly Field, Texas. Kern County Airport.

Bakersfield, Calif. Key Field.

Meridian, Miss. Key West Barracks.

Key West, Fla.. Kingsbury Ordnance Plant

La Porte, Ind.. Knox, Fort

Fort Knox, Ky. La Garde General Hospital

New Orleans, La Lake Charles A. C. Facility

Lake Charles, La. Lake City Ordnance Plant

Independence, Mo. Lakeland Air Corps Facility

Lakeland, Fla. Langdon, Camp.

Portsmouth, N. H Langley Field

Langley Field, Va, Las Vegas Alrport.

Las Vegas, Nev Lawson Field

Fort Benning. Ga. Lawson General Hospital

Atlanta, Ga. Lawton, Fort..

Seattle, Wash Leavenworth, Fort.

Fort Leavenworth, Kans Lee, Camp..

Camp Lee, Va. Lemoore A. C. Facility

Lemoore, Calif. Letterman General Hospital,

Presidio of San Francisco, Calif Levett, Fort..

Portland, Me... Lewis, Fort

Fort Lewis, Wash. Lexington Signal Depot.

Lexington, Ky. Lincoln, Fort

Bismarck, N. Dak
Lindbergh Field.

San Diego, Calif.
Little Rock Quarterm. Supply Depot. P.O. Box 3141, Little Rock, Ark.
Livingston, Camp.

Camp Livingston, La..
Lockett, Camp.

Campo, Calif. Logan Field...

Dundalk, Md. Logan, Fort..

Fort Logan, Colo. Lone Star Ordnance Plant

Texarkana, Texas Long Beach Municipal Airport.

Long Beach, Calir. Los Angeles Municipal Alrport.

Inglewood, Calll. Louisiana Ordnance Plant.

Minden, La.. Love Field.

Dallas, Tex. Lovell General Hospital

Fort Devens, Mass. Lowry Field.

Denver, Colo. Lubbock A. C. Facility

Lubbock, Texas. Luke Field.

Litchfield Park, Ariz Lunken Airport

Cincinnati, Ohio. Lyon, Fort

Portland, Me. Mabry Field, Dale

Tallahassee, Fla. MacArthur, Fort.

San Pedro, Calil. MacDill Field

MacDill Field, Fla. MeChord Field.

McChord Field, Wash McClellan Field.

Sacramento, Calir MeClellan, Fort.

Fort McClellan, Ala McCoy, Camp

Sparta, Wisc. McDowell, Fort

Angel Island, Callt McHenry, Fort.

Baltimore, MD. McIntosh, Fort

Laredo, Tex McKinley. Fort.

Portland, Me. McPherson, Fort

Atlanta, Ga. McQuaide, Camp

Watsonville, Calll. McRee, Fort

Fort Barrancas, Fla Madison Barracks.

Sackets Harbor, N. Y Manchester Army Air Base

Manchester, NH March Field..

March Field, Calir. Marta Airport.

Marta, Texas. Marshall Field.

Fort Riley. Kans. Mason, Fort.

San Francisco, Calif. Mather Field

Mills, Calif. Maumelle Ordnance Works

Marche, Ark. Maxwell Field..

Maxwell Field, Ala Meade, Fort.

Fort Meade, S. Dak. Meade, Fort George G.

Fort George G. Meade, Md. Medford Municipal Alrport.

Medford, Oregon.. Memphis Municipal Airport.

Memphis, Tenn. Merced Air Corps Facility

Merced, Calif..., Miami Municipal Airport

P.O. Box 218, Hialeah, Fla Michie, Fort

New London, Conn.. Middletown Air Depot.

Middletown, Pa. Midland Airport..

Midland, Texas, Midland Plant, C. W. S

Midland, Mich. Milan Ordnance Depot.

Milan, Tenn. Mlles, Fort..

Lewes, Del..

30,000

5,800

2,200

1,900 2,200 6,300 3,300

1,300 20,400

1,100

1,200 1.800 1,000

1,800 2,000 4,500

2,700

5,100

1,600 24,700