journal, The Military Engineer, the Society seeks to increase the engineer potential of the nation for defense.

Maj. Gen. Emerson C. Itschner, USA. Chief of Engineers, is currently President of the Society; Vice Adm. W. Orme Hiltabidle, USN, retired, is 1st Vice President; Col. F. H. Kohloss, USA, retired, is Executive Secretary and editor. Membership in the Society, which includes a subscription to The Military Engineer, is $6 per year.

UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION

USAA BUILDING 4119 Broadway

San Antonio 9, Texas

The United Services Automobile Association was organized in June 1922 by a group of Army Air Corps officers at Kelly Field, Texas, as the United States Army Automobile Association for the purpose of writing automobile insurance for Army officers. Shortly afterward its name was changed to the United Services Automobile Association and membership was extended to other branches of the Federal Services.

The Association is a reciprocal interinsurance exchange, managed by active and retired military officers. It writes the following forms of insurance: automobile, household goods and personal effects, and comprehensive personal liability. Coverage is afforded on automobiles operated in the United States, its territories and possessions; Canada; Cuba; Republic of Panama; Japan; Philippine Islands; Okinawa; certain other Pacific islands; continental Europe (excluding the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics); and in transit between ports thereof. Coverage is afforded in the same areas under the Comprehensive Personal Liability Policy, with the addition of the British Isles. The policy covering household goods and personal effects affords worldwide coverage.

All policy contracts are nonassessable, with no policyholder incurring any liability other than the premium charged. A permanent power of attorney is secured from each subscriber with the original application for insurance. The Association is a nonprofit organization in that the members get their insurance at cost. After the reserves have been set up as required by law and all claims

and overhead expenses settled, the surplus is returned as "savings" to the members at the end of their respective policy terms, in proportion to the premiums paid.

Operations are conducted by mail on a direct basis. No agents are employed for the solicitation of business. Risks are accepted, policies written, premiums collected, and adjustments made from the home office in San Antonio. Claims are carefully reviewed by the management and an experienced staff of claims attorneys, with a nationwide setup of expert adjusters and attorneys conveniently located for the prompt settlement of claims. Losses arising in Europe are handled by the Association's European Claims Office, located Frankfurt, Germany.

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Membership is limited to active and retired officers, cadets, and warrant officers of the United States Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Public Health Service, Coast and Geodetic Survey; Foreign Service officers of the Department of State; Reserve and National Guard officers when ordered to extended active Federal duty for a period of six months or longer; and the widows of such officers and warrant officers, as long as their status is not changed by remarriage. Reserve and National Guard officers who have established membership while on active duty, and who are later released from active duty, may continue their insurance or renew it at any time as long as they retain their commissions or warrants. Upon retirement from the service, Reserve and National Guard officers are eligible for insurance regardless of whether they were formerly members of the Association. The leading insurance reporting authority in the United States, Best's Insurance Reports (Fire and Casualty), has consistently given United Services Automobile Association an "A+" policyholder's rating for general reliability, its highest rating.

The officers of the Association are: Col. Charles E. Cheever, USA-Ret., President and Attorney-in-fact; Col. Amel T. Leonard, USA-Ret., Vice President; and M. C. Kerford, Secretary. UNITED SPANISH WAR VETERANS 40 G Street N.E., Washington 13, D. C.

The United Spanish War Veterans resulted from the amalgamation on 18 April 1904 of several organizations formed after the close of the SpanishAmerican War and having for their objects the perpetuation of the memories of those days of their service and such needed help as could be afforded to their comrades and dependents. The most prominent of these were the Spanish War Veterans, Spanish-American War Veterans, Service Men of the Spanish War, Legion of Spanish War Veterans, and Veteran Army of the Philippines. The Legion of Spanish War Veterans amalgamated with this organization in 1906 and the Veteran Army of the Philippines in 1908, with the result that the United Spanish War Veterans thereafter included every organization composed exclusively of men who had seen service in that war.

The objects of this corporation (incorporated by the U. S. Congress and approved by the President on 22 April 1940) are to perpetuate the name of United Spanish War Veterans and to preserve in corporate form said organization as now and heretofore maintained and conducted, and to thus provide and continue an agency and instrumentality through and by which its members, for and during the remainder of their natural lives, unite in the fraternal bonds of comradeship, perpetuate the memories of the War with Spain and the campaigns incident thereto, promote peace and good will at home and among all nations, encourage an adequate national defense, and protect and preserve our institutions of Government.

National headquarters was permanently established in Washington, D. C., in 1924, and the Association's own building was erected in 1936.

The Commander in Chief, USWV, is Dr. Orris E. Jackson, 8707 3d Avenue, Inglewood, California. The Adjutant General is James H. McElroy, Commodore Hotel, Washington, D. C.

UNITED STATES ARMOR ASSO-
CIATION

1757 K Street, N. W., Washington 6,
D. C.

The United States Armor Association was formed in November 1885 as the

United States Cavalry Association. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, was designated as headquarters, with branches authorized at stations having eight or more members. The aim of the Association was and is the professional unity and improvement of the branch and the advancement of the Service generally. The present name was adopted in recognition of the transition from horse to armor.

The Association began publication of a journal in March 1888. Today it is called Armor, The Journal of Mobile Warfare, and appears bimonthly. Subscriptions are $4.75 for one year and $8.00 for two years; the subscriber also receives a bimonthly U. S. Armor Association Newsletter.

Awards are presented annually to West Point graduates choosing Armor as their basic branch. An award is given to the honor graduate from the Armor Officers' Advance Course at the U. S. Army Armor School, Fort Knox, Kentucky. Awards are also given to OCS and ROTC honor graduates.

Members number approximately 4,000. However, unit subscriptions and foreign subscribers run the circulation to about 7,000 copies for the magazine.

The first President of the Association was Col. Abraham K. Arnold. The present President is Lt. Gen. George W. Read, Jr. Maj. Gen. Guy V. Henry is Honorary President. Lt. Col. William H. Zierdt, Jr., is Secretary, Treasurer, and editor of the journal.

VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES Broadway at Thirty-fourth, Kansas City 2, Mo.

The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States was founded in 1899. A Congressional charter limits the organization's membership to officers and enlisted men, and those honorably discharged, who have served in the United States Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard in any foreign war, insurrection, or expedition for which the Government has issued a campaign badge. More than 1,500,000 men belong to 10,000 VFW posts in all States, Alaska, Territory of Hawaii, the Philippines, Japan, Panama Canal Zone, Puerto Rico, France, Germany, and

elsewhere around the world. Membership dues range from $3.00 a year upward.

The purposes of the VFW, as prescribed by the organization's Congressional charter and constitution, are "fraternal, patriotic, historical, and educational; to preserve and strengthen comradeship among its members; to assist worthy comrades; to perpetuate the memory and history of our dead, and to assist their widows and orphans; to maintain true allegiance to the Government of the United States of America and fidelity to its Constitution and laws; to foster true patriotism; to maintain and extend the institutions of American freedom; and to preserve and Idefend the United States from all her enemies whomsoever."

The annual national encampment is the supreme power of the VFW. Encampment delegates, accredited on the basis of post membership, determine the organization's policies. A national council of administration, composed of elected members representing 15 regions, represents the national encampment during intervals between its sessions.

National headquarters, Broadway at Thirty-fourth, Kansas City 2, Mo., coordinates the organization's activities through "department" or State headquarters; maintains membership and financial records; serves as supply center; and is the location of the divisions of Americanism and Education, Athletics and Recreation, Extension, Historical and Archives, the VFW Buddy Poppy department, and the editorial and business offices of the organization's monthly publication, V. F. W. Magazine.

VFW Legislative, Veterans' Rehabilitation, and other divisions are maintained at 1000 Connecticut Ave., N. W., Washington 6, D. C.

The VFW National Home for Veterans' Orphans, established in 1925 at Eaton Rapids, Mich., consists of a 640acre farm and orchard lands on which are 22 family-sized houses (and more under construction), a hospital, community social center, nursery, swimming pool, gymnasium, and other essentials for the care of veterans' orphans during their minority. Support of the home is aided in large measure by the annual sale of buddy poppies. WEST POINT ALUMNI FOUNDATION, INC.

U.S.M.A., West Point, N.Y.

This nonprofit organization was incorporated under the laws of the State of Maryland in 1945, for the purpose of publishing Assembly magazine and the Register of Graduates and Former Cadets, United States Military Academy for the Association of Graduates at West Point. The charter covers miscellaneous educational and charitable purposes, all of which are solely for the benefit of the Military Academy or its graduates. Assembly is published quarterly, and is concerned with three important news features for alumni— current affairs at the Academy, news notes of various classes, and obituaries of deceased graduates. The Register of Graduates is published annually, and includes a very brief outline or sketch of every graduate of the Military Academy from the class of five years prior to that of the oldest living graduate, to include the latest graduating class. It indicates graduates on the active list of the Army, on the retired list, in civil life, or deceased. It also shows, after each class, all men who entered the Academy with that class but did not graduate. It may be stated that every man who has worn cadet gray since 1879 is appropriately listed in the 1957 Register.

$9,880,650 $9,561,294 $9,111,262 $7,627,280 $7,629,550 $8,510,000 $9,426,343 $9,417,021 $8,893,900

Sub-total All Accounts

PROPOSED FOR LATER TRANSMISSION:

Military Personnel, Army

Reserve Personnel, Army

Army National Guard

Military Construction, Army

Total, Department of the Army

$9,899,636 $9,582,294 $9,133,262 $7,646,266 $7,650,550 $8,532,000 $9,062,689 $9,043,000 $8,663,000 $ 164,000 12,000 8,000 188,738

164,000

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12,000

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8,000 320,000

$ 162,000

$9,899,636 $9,582,294 $9,506,000 $7,646,266 $7,650,550 $9,036,000 $9,062,689 $9,043,000 $8,880,000 Excludes $27,444 thousand in 1957, $400 million in 1958 and $225 million from authorized transfers to this account from unobligated balances of this account. b President's budget indicates that $10 million will be transferred to the Advance Research Projects Agency, OSD.

e Excludes $10 million reappropriated.