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This isn't a WI, just what I've figured out from a couple of recent threads and want to write down in one place. There is probably some AH possibilities in there somewhere.

  • 1903 Dick Act, sets out Federal control of the Militia and grants Federal funds to militia training and equipment
  • 1906 US occupies Cuba
  • 1907 Costal and Field Artillery separated, 6 field artillery regiments set up.
  • 1908 Dick Act amended, Militia MUST be Federalised before any volunteer units can be raised
  • 1911 Concentration of the Manoeuver Division and 2 Brigades on the Mexican border, very chaotic.
  • 1912 US Navy and Marines invade and occupy Nicaragua
  • 1912 Secretary of War Henry Stimson prepared Plan to form permanent divisions in both Regular Army and National Guard.
  • 1912 US occupies Cuba
  • 1913 US Army forms 4 permanent divisions based on 4 geographical areas and 3 coastal defence inspectorates based on 3 coastal areas.
  • 1914 Stimson Plan to create 12 divisions from National Guard units upon Federalisation/Mobilisation
  • 1914 US Army 2nd division concentrated on Mexican border, movement orders dispatched by single 5 line telegraph
  • 1914 US invades and occupies Vera Cruz Mexico
  • 1915 US Marines invade and occupy Haiti
  • 1915 2 batteries of 4.7" 'heavy' artillery of the 5th field regiment (designated as the 'army' artillery in the Stimson plan) deploy to the Mexican border after the Norias Raid.
  • 1915 Plattsburgh Camp set up to train college students to be prospective Officers.
  • 1916 Punitive division formed of 2 cavalry and 1 infantry brigade to pursue Pancho Villa into Mexico
  • 1916 US occupies Dominican Republic
  • 1916 National Defense Act, authorises doubling of Army and tripling of National Guard numbers over a 5 year period, further increases Federal Control of NG
  • 1916 NG Federalised/mobilised and concentrated on the Mexican border due to threat of war with Mexico due to Punitive Expedition. Chaotic but some 117,000 NG troops on southern border within 3 months. 12 Provisional Divisions formed.
  • 1916 US 7th, 8th 9th, 3rd New York and 2nd Pennsylvania artillery regiments formed, 9th and 3rd NY are America's 2nd and 3rd 'heavy' artillery regiments with 4.7" guns and 6" howitzers in the 9th and 4.7" howitzers in the 3rd NY.
  • 1917 Punitive Expedition recalled
  • 1917 NG units begin standing down, by April about 70,000 still Federalised and on border. Valuable training and experience gained during the Federalisation.
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