QuestionsQuestions (Act No. 2751)
Act No. 2751 amends Act No. 2715 (entitled to establish the Philippine Militia and related purposes) by striking out and replacing Section 26.
It replaces the old Section 26 with two new sections: Section 26 (reforming the Signal Corps, creating the Field Signal Battalion, and increasing aviation sections) and Section 26A (creating aviation cadet positions).
The Signal Corps consists of one Chief Signal Officer (Colonel), one Lieutenant-Colonel, one Major, two Captains, two First Lieutenants, and the Field Signal Battalion and Aviation section enumerated in the provision.
It consists of one Major, one First Lieutenant, one Sergeant-Major, one Supply Sergeant, one Color Sergeant, one Sergeant Clerk, twenty-five Privates (First Class), and three companies: one Telegraph Company, one Radio Company, and one Outpost Company.
The Telegraph Company, the Radio Company, and the Outpost Company.
The Telegraph Company includes twenty-four corporals.
The Radio Company includes sixty-eight privates, first class.
The Outpost Company includes seventy-four privates, first class.
The aviation section consists of two aero squadrons plus such additional squadrons as the Militia Commission may recommend and the Governor-General approve.
Each aero squadron has one Major, one Captain, and sixteen First Lieutenants (among other roles listed).
The provisions of Section 26 shall not be construed to limit in any manner the powers vested in the Militia Commission by Act No. 2727.
Two positions of cadets are created for each position of commissioned officer in the aviation section.
Applicants must pass the examination prescribed by National Guard regulations (or, if none, the U.S. Army aviation service examination regulations) and must take the oath of allegiance to the Government of the United States and to that of the Philippine Islands.
Any officer of the National Guard may administer the oath.
Cadets receive pay and allowances as the Militia Commission provides and the Governor-General approves, which in no case exceed fifty pesos per month, with subsistence.
It may abolish the cadet positions, with approval of the Governor-General.
They may be filled by privates or non-commissioned officers of the aviation section, on nomination by the commanding officer of the same.
It was approved on February 23, 1918.