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Affairs Directorate (each headed by a brigadier general). Also directly subordinate to the Subsecretariat will be the Historical Service, General Archives, Purchasing Board, Juridicial Advisor, and the Army Ministry Infantry Battalion. In addition, the Subsecretariat will be responsible for the conduct of relations with other ministerial departments.
The major new organization will be the Army Materiel Headquarters, headed by a lieutenant general. It will be responsible for military materiel research acquisition, and manufacture "in accordance with the directives of the Central General Staff." The new headquarters will consist of a Secretariat, headed by a brigadier general; a Technical Directorate (Inspector General of Engineers); an Investigation Directorate; a Fabrication Directorate; and an Acquisition Directorate. Each of the last three directorates will be headed by a major general.
Peninsular Spain is divided into nine military regions for purposes of military administration and control of tactical units. The two island groups - the Balearic and the Canary Islands - each constitute separate commands on the same level as the military regions. The North African places of sovereignty no longer constitute a separate operational command. Each command of the principal places of sovereignty is now subordinate to a military region on the peninsula. The Canary Islands Command also includes the West African province of Spanish Sahara, and the commander has operational control over air and naval units located within his command. Both the military regions and the island commands are commanded by a captain general[1], who has the rank of lieutenant general. In addition to control of the troops, the captains general are responsible for various administrative functions, including recruiting, conscription, mobilization, communications, and the supervision of depots and other logistical installations.
The army has four combat arms: infantry; cavalry, which includes armor; artillery, which includes field, antiaircraft, and the coast artillery; and engineers, which still includes signal although there is a separate signal chief. There are a number of corps of services, including quartermaster, transportation, medical (veterinary is usually considered part of the medical service, although veterinary officer rolls are separate), pharmacy, judge advocate, auditing, administrative, music directors, and armament and construction engineers. Officers for the transportation service are drawn from any of the four combat arms. The corps of armament and construction engineers is divided into two branches: 1) ordnance and 2) construction, engineer, and signal specialists. The ordnance branch handles research and development of armament, munitions, and materiel; the work is performed in the national factories and laboratories. The construction, engineer, and signal specialists handle all construction activities and research and development of engineer and signal items. There is a small general staff service which graduates of the General Staff School may enter as vacancies occur; members retain their positions on the promotion lists of the combat arm in which they were commissioned. General staff rosters still list officers belonging to the general staff corps, but the corps was replaced by the service in 1927, and most of the general staff corps members are no longer in an active duty status.
2. Strength, composition, and disposition[2] (C)
The active duty strength of the army is 201,000 - 15,350 officers, 15,700 noncommissioned officers, and 169,950 other enlisted men. Only about 9% of the enlisted men are regulars; 22% are short-term volunteers, and approximately 69% are conscripts.
All men who have completed their term of compulsory military service have a reserve obligation until January of the year they reach age 38. On release from active service, personnel remain assigned to their former unit to facilitate recall, but there is no system of refresher training. Of the approximately 1.5 million men who have satisfied the compulsory military service requirement in the past 10 years, 800,000 could be mobilized within 30 days, but many of the units would be handicapped by shortages of support weapons, transportation, and communication equipment.
The major combat units are five divisions (one armored, one mechanized infantry, one motorized infantry, two mountain) and 16 brigades (one parachute, one cavalry, one air-transportable, two artillery, one high mountain, and 10 infantry). Separate combat and combat support units consist of 41 regiments (17 infantry, two light cavalry, 12 artillery, one artillery observation, four antiaircraft artillery, five engineer) and six battalions (four light cavalry, one artillery, one engineer). Units are divided into two principal categories - Immediate Intervention
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- ↑ Captain general is both a rank and a title. It is the highest rank, held only by one living person - General Franco. As a title, it is given to the commanders of military regions and island commands.
- ↑ For regularly updated, detailed information, see the Order of Battle Summary, Foreign Ground Forces, and the Military Intelligence Summary, both published by the Defense Intelligence Agency.
