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GI. Job of the first division of the General Staff is preparation of plans and policies for personnel from recruiting to discharge. Its sphere includes Army pay, promotion, regulations, recreation, religion. Boss of G-1 is handsome, polished 55-year-old Brigadier General William Edgar Shedd Jr., a coast artilleryman who has served in Hawaii and the Philippines, taught mathematics at West Point, directed the A. E. F.'s Heavy Artillery School in France.
G2. A honeypot for newsbees, an inspiration to fictioneers, the Military Intelligence Division collects, analyzes and supplies military information to the rest of the Army. The hush-hush province of ciphers, codes, spies and their works is all G-2's: bald, husky Brigadier General Sherman Miles, whose ancestry and career are as glamorous as any in the Army. His father was the late Lieut. General Nelson A. Miles, his grandfather William Tecumseh Sherman. In the first months of World War I he was military observer with the Russian armies, later served as a military intelligence officer with the A. E. F., was sent to Constantinople in 1922 as an attache and was recalled in 1925 to be converted into an artilleryman. He was in command of Field Artillery School troops at Fort Sill, Okla., when he was sent to London as military attache in 1939, returned to the U. S. last April to join George Marshall's staff.
G3. For end results, most important man on the General Staff is G3. His job is training the Army and operating it in the field. When George Marshall was appointed Chief of Staff, he set the conservatives of the Army back on their heels by picking for G-3 the first Air Corps officer ever to head a General Staff division: deep-chested, friendly Frank Maxwell Andrews. Onetime cavalryman, Frank Andrews was the first head of the GHQ Air Force as temporary Major General, went back to a colonelcy when his tour of duty was over, came back as a permanent brigadier general of the line. A top-flight pilot at 56, Frank Andrews still flies his own plane, pokes his iron-grey head into thick weather along with the youngsters of the Air Corps.
G-4's job—supply—is the least glorious job in the Army and one of the most necessary, entailing endless complications, endless bookkeeping. Supply officer in the General Staff is friendly, competent Brigadier General Richard Curtis Moore, topflight student at West Point and an engineer officer since he graduated in 1903.
Besides supplying the thousands of items, from picket pins to tanks, that go into the Army lists, G-4 builds and maintains buildings, leases and buys land, has charge of transportation, traffic, is accountable for all Army property. All this is right up the professional alley of Dick Moore, who has been a supervising engineer on the U. S.'s great rivers, had a detail to Peru with the United States Naval Mission in 1928-30, commanded combat engineers and headed up the Atlantic Sector of the Canal Zone. A general officer since 1938, he was in command of the 18th Infantry Brigade in the Zone when George Marshall tapped him.