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The above table shows the distribution of Active Army personnel to major commands, at home and abroad, as of 30 June 1956.

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a Includes 34 retired officers on active duty. b Includes 1 commissioned officer assigned to Coast and Geodetic Survey. e Does not include 94 WAC officers and 44 WAC warrant officers detailed in other branches of the Army by DA orders.

The above table shows, for officers only of the Active Army, the distribution by control branch or monitor assignment, command assignment and grade, as of June 1956.

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For strengths of the Army Reserve and National Guard, see chapter 4.

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HISTORICAL EVOLUTION. Older than our nation, the National Guard has the longest continuous history of any military organization in the United States. As an outgrowth of the early militia concept which provided for the common defense, its origin can be traced back to the first years of the seventeenth century, when the settlers, in order to protect their lives and homes, banded together to form "train bands," or militia organizations, equipped and trained according to the needs of the times. As the country grew and new communities and States came into being, additional units were formed for local and national protection.

Early Guard Units. The distinction of being the oldest National Guard units in the United States with unbroken

lineages is shared by the 101st Engineer Battalion and the 182d Infantry Regiment, both of the Massachusetts National Guard. They were originally organized on 7 October 1636, when the General Court at Boston ordered that all eligible men be ranked into militia regiments. Known respectively as the East Regiment (later the Regiment of Essex) and the Old North Regiment (later the Regiment of Middlesex), they responded to the call at Lexington and Concord, where the American tradition of minutemen-citizen-soldiers standing ready at a moment's notice to serve their country-was born.

Another historic regiment, the 176th Infantry of the Virginia National Guard, descends from the Charles City-Henrico Counties Regiment of Militia organized

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