Army Finance Corps Military History, Powerpoint presentation help

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This assignment will demonstrate the student’s ability to use military history

to give meaning to personal service, explain the importance of Army Branches to professionalism and

force structure and the contribution of a specific branch to the US Army.

The presentation will be in the form of classroom instruction. The presenter is teaching the class

their subject. Any instructional modes may be employed to achieve the greatest learning effect. You will

be graded both on the historical content of the presentation as well as the ability to teach military

history.

Guidelines:

1. Subject – the history of your assigned Branch (Finance Corps)

2. Scope – limited to the branches history within the US Army

3. Duration – 15 minutes (give or take a little)

4. Content – Be sure to incorporate themes of this course. (Attached is the themes)

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Discussion of History


Army Finance Corps
Name
Institutional affiliation

Introduction
• Mission is to serve and support. Support in this context means
✓Pay support to soldiers, active, reserved and retired
✓Civilian pay and payment of civilians who support military missions
✓Offering travel allowances.
✓Payment to commercial merchants
✓Full accounting of public monies spent in military operations.

History of Army Finance Corps
• The branch was established on 16th June 1775 with the appointment of the
Pay master. First paymaster in History was James Warren(Pike, 2017).
• In 1886 the department was made separate from the army branches.
• Paymasters with the rank of Major were appointed to conduct the duty of
paying the soldiers.
• The department remained unchanged until a reorganization in 1912 was
due during WW1 where they joined the Quartermaster Corps(Pike, 2017).
• In June 1920 the congress approved that the finance department be made
a separate branch in the war department under the charge of Brigadier
General Herbert M. Lord(Pike, 2017).
• The department handled more responsibilities than it predecessors

Duties of the new department during WW1
• After approval from the congress more duties were added to the
finance department they include
➢Handling military pay-basic duty
➢Travel expenses-basic duty
Other added duties
➢Financial duties to the war department
➢Auditing
➢Budgeting

History of Army Finance Corps
• After WW1 the Fiscal Director was dissolved, and the Finance
department once again became an independent agency(Pike, 2017).
• The department remained independent until WW2 when it assumed
a new structure.
• The extra duties ...


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