History of the Office of the Inspector General of the United States Army
Inspector General of the United States Army | |
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since February 7, 2018 | |
United States Army | |
Status | Lieutenant General[1] |
First holder | Thomas Conway |
Website | https://www.daig.pentagon.mil |
The Office of the Inspector General of the United States Army (OTIG)[A] serves to "provide impartial, objective and unbiased advice and oversight to the army through relevant, timely and thorough inspection, assistance, investigations, and training".[1] The position of Inspector General (IG) has existed since 1777, when Thomas Conway was appointed, and the office has been reorganized many times, varied in size dramatically, and nearly abolished on several occasions. In its early days, the inspectorate was frequently merged with, or proposed to be part of, the Adjutant General's department. It expanded greatly after the American Civil War, to the point that it had around 2,000 officers in 1993.
Background
The first modern military inspectors were French 'inspecteurs', first appointed in 1668. Frederick the Great of Prussia had appointed inspectors by the 1770s, as had the British Army. Historian David Clary argues that "by the mid-eighteenth century, military inspection had become essential to modern armies." None of the European systems of inspecting worked well for the Continental Army, but elements from all three, particularly the British system, were incorporated.[3]
The Continental Army was very disorganized from the start of the American Revolutionary War in 1775. After George Washington arrived in Boston to lead the army in a siege of the city, on July 4, 1775, it had taken him a week to produce an accurate count of the soldiers in the army, which was 16,600, far less than the 24,500 he had expected. Poorly trained and organized, by 1777, Washington felt that the Continental Army needed an inspector general. Members of the Continental Congress noted "the absence of a regular inspector," and on April 18, 1777, Congress requested the establishment of a position to "inspect the magazines of provisions under the care of Commissary Wharton."[4][5]
Early history (1777–1865)
Augustin de la Balme arrived in the United States in 1777, and on July 8, the Continental Congress resolved "that Lieutenant-Colonel Mottin de la Balme be appointed inspector-general of the cavalry of the United States of America, with the rank and pay of colonel."[6] He resigned after Casimir Pulaski was promoted to Chief of Cavalry ahead of him, viewing Pulaski as an inferior cavalry leader. Philippe-Charles-Jean-Baptiste-Tronson Du Coudray was similarly appointed to Inspector General of Ordnance and Military Stores on August 11, 1777. At the time, the position was "mere flattery that meant nothing in military terms." Coudray drowned in the Schuylkill River on September 16.[7]
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On October 29, 1777, Washington recommended the permanent establishment of an inspector general post to the Continental Congress. On December 13, Congress established such a position, naming Thomas Conway as the first inspector general.[8] Washington objected to the Continental Congress's choice, instead favoring Henry Leonard d'Arendt.[9] He had a personal dislike of Conway, and had come into conflict with him during what is known as the Conway Cabal, when Washington felt there was a conspiracy against him, aiming to remove him from his position as Commander-In-Chief.[10] On April 28, 1778, Conway resigned.[11]
Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben was then selected by Washington as the next inspector general.[12] As the first inspector general to serve a significant term, he played a large part in defining the role of the position.[13] His book, Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States, served as the official guide to military training and maneuvers in the United States Army until the War of 1812.[14] On February 18, 1779, the Continental Congress formally created a charter for the Office of Inspector General. It gave the holder of the position the rank of major general and specified the role of the position as creating regulations for maneuvers and discipline, periodically inspecting and reporting on the condition of troops and introducing new maneuvers.[15] Washington could appoint as many sub-inspectors as he felt necessary.[16]
On June 22, 1779, the Continental Congress temporarily directed the Adjutant General of the United States Army to serve as assistant inspector general.[17] By 1780, the inspector general served as de facto Chief of Staff of the United States Army.[16] On January 12, 1780, Congress resolved that the inspector general would additionally manage the mustering of troops in the Continental Army.[18] Congress further clarified the role of the office on September 25, 1780, making it responsible for regulations of the army,[19] and again in 1782, this time shrinking the department.[20] Steuben and his aide (later successor), William North, were heavily involved in the demobilization of the Continental Army.[B][21]
North was made inspector general in April 1784, and is known to have done little in the role.[22] Following North's departure in late October 1787, the office was vacant until June 25, 1788, when Congress resolved that "that the Office of Inspector of troops in the service of the United States immediately cease, and be discontinued, and that the secretary of war report what mode may be most eligible for having the troops inspected in the future."[23] The United States Department of War was created by an act of Congress on August 7, 1789, and John Stagg[C] and Francis Mentges,[25] the latter serving as inspector of contracts, performed most of the inspector general's duties. Until 1792 the army functioned much like a militia.[26]
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As a result of the escalation of the Northwest Indian War in 1790, Congress began expanding the army. Mentges served as de facto inspector general,[27] as did Winthrop Sargent,[D] for Arthur St. Clair's army. On March 5, 1792, after St. Clair's Defeat, the army was reorganized again.[29] When Anthony Wayne took over St. Clair's role,[27] a few days later Henry de Butts was appointed acting inspector general. He was then followed by Edward Butler, Michael Rudolph, Jonathan Haskell and John Mills.[E][12][31]
The army was reorganized on November 1, 1796, with new legislation providing for an inspector general who would also perform the duties of adjutant general.[32] Thomas Humphrey Cushing was next appointed as an acting inspector general,[33] and would remain until 1798, when he was replaced by Alexander Hamilton,[31][34] who acted as the de facto head of the army during the Quasi-War.[35][36] The position was abolished by legislation passed on May 14, 1800. Hamilton resigned on June 15, 1800, and was followed by Cushing, who served as acting inspector general.[12][37]
In 1807, Cushing was replaced by Abimael Youngs Nicoll as an acting inspector general.[38] The position was reestablished upon the outbreak of the War of 1812 with the rank of brigadier general,[39] and Alexander Smyth was appointed.[39] Smyth performed poorly in the role, to the point that on March 3, 1813, it was abolished by Congress, and replaced by an Inspector General's Department.[40]
The newly formed department combined the adjutant general's and inspector general's departments. It had one adjutant and inspector general (generally the most senior inspector, who led the department), eight inspectors and adjutants and 16 assistant inspectors and 16 assistant adjutants.[41] Zebulon Pike was appointed adjutant and inspector general in 1813,[41] before being killed in an explosion on April 27, 1813.[42] The duties of inspector general were performed by Abimael Y. Nicoll, then the most senior inspector. Later John R. Bell and various assistant adjutant generals acted as inspector general.[41] In 1814, the position was filled by William H. Winder and Daniel Parker.[12][43] After various reorganizations, by 1816, the United States Army was divided into North and South divisions, with Arthur P. Hayne inspector general in the South and John E. Wool in the North,[12][44] with Parker remaining adjutant and inspector general. Hayne resigned in 1820, and was replaced by James Gadsden.[31][45] In 1821, the army was reorganized, with two inspectors general, having the rank, pay and emoluments of colonels of cavalry. Parker's position was eliminated.[46]
From 1821 to 1861, the position had little change.[47] During the Mexican–American War, the inspector general served as second in command of the army.[48] Upon the outbreak of the American Civil War, all inspectors had retired or defected to the Confederate States of America and as a result new inspectors were appointed in 1861, largely doing what their superiors requested. There were many informally appointed inspectors and by late 1862, "nearly 1,400 other officers were on orders at one time or another to perform various types of inspection duties."[47] In January 1863, Delos Bennett Sackett[44] was assigned as the de facto head of the Office of the Inspector General, which, until then had not existed. In total two major generals, seven brigadier generals, 18 colonels, 118 lieutenant colonels, and 149 majors of the regular army served official inspector duty during the Civil War.[47]
Reorganization (1866–1903)
On January 22, 1866, a War Department order re-defined the duties of inspector general to be to inspect:
the condition as to efficiency, discipline, supplies, etc., of bodies of troops, and the resources, geographical features, lines of communication and supply, the military wants, etc., of any section of the country; the military status in any field of operations; the condition and supply of military materials of various classes; the condition of the administrative or disbursing departments of the service; the efficiency and conduct of military commanders and agents; the cause of failure or delay in movements or operations; of losses by accidents, disasters, etc., and in general, all matters pertaining to the military art or having interest in a military point of view.
— United States Department of War, General Order No. 5 of 1866.[49]
In July 1866, the number of inspectors general with the rank of colonel was fixed at four; assistant inspectors general with the rank of lieutenant colonel at three; and the number with rank of major at two.[50] In 1866,[44] Edmund Schriver was named inspector general of the United States Military Academy and senior inspector general. He led the movement to give the position authority equivalent to other offices of the army. That same year, he published the first Annual Report of the Inspector General's Department.[51] On March 3, 1869, when the army was dramatically reduced in size, the unofficial Inspector General's Department was retained, with any new appointments or promotions being prohibited.[52] Randolph B. Marcy took over from Schriver in 1869.[44][52]
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By 1871, the inspectorate was being criticized by many, particularly for its "useless" reports. An anonymous letter written to the Army and Navy Journal criticized "that parasite of the army called the Inspector General's Department." On October 5, 1872, the inspectorate was formally attached to the War Department and given an independent office. In 1874, it was reduced in size by a law spearheaded by Senator John A. Logan. That same year, the Inspector General's Department was formally recognized as existing, with the adoption by the United States Congress of the Revised Statutes, which treated the department as existing, though it had never formally been established. On December 12, 1878 Congress declared that the rank of the senior inspector general of the United States Army would be brigadier general, placing it on an equal footing with other army departments.[53][54]
On February 5, 1885, the department was expanded. From then, it remained largely the same size and structure,[55] until Joseph Cabell Breckinridge Sr. became the senior inspector general on January 30, 1889.[44] Breckinridge, working with Secretary of War Redfield Proctor sponsored the release of a series of general orders altering the scope of the inspectorate,[56] culminating in the amendment of paragraph 955 Army Regulations, by General Order No. 38 of 1890, which dictated that the entire military establishment was to be inspected annually.[55] During the late 19th century, the inspectorate engaged in many special inspections, several at the behest of Congress, and did much to safeguard public property.[48] In 1894, the Department undertook "928 disbursement accounts involving over $68 million and inspections of 90 posts; 50 staff facilities, prisons, and ungarrisoned posts; 82 military colleges; 51 national cemeteries; 27 recruiting stations; and 28 special investigations, for a total of 1,256 inspections."[57]
On March 30, 1895, the United States was divided by Secretary of War Daniel S. Lamont into six inspections districts, and the department was made independent, reporting directly to the secretary of war and commanding general of the United States Army, instead of various department commanders. The then Commanding General Nelson A. Miles disliked the inspectorate and in 1898 he nearly succeeded in removing the inspection districts and the independence of the department.[58]
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Upon the outbreak of the Spanish–American War, the War Department was shown to be ill-prepared; and much of the blame fell on the Inspector General's Department, for not noticing problems in the army. During the war, the department was increased in size, with 36 temporary inspectors being appointed, and three permanently appointed later. There was little oversight, as Breckinridge was fighting in the war, and the department has been described by historian David Clary as mostly existing on paper.[59]
After the war, the inspectorate was increased in size and was revitalized. By 1901, it had one brigadier general, three colonels, four lieutenant colonels, and nine majors. In 1902, an Act to Increase the Efficiency of the Army was passed, which originally contained a clause to abolish the Inspector General's Department.[60]
Continued growth (1903–1939)
The General Staff Bill, passed in 1903, had, as originally drafted, abolished the office of inspector general, but the provision was removed.[61] In 1906, Ernest Albert Garlington replaced George H. Burton,[62] and became senior inspector general. Under them, the office came to be seen as an extension of the secretary of war and chief of staff, with the inspector general collaborating closely with and often sharing the same opinions as the two. The scope of the inspectorate increased significantly, to the point that anything affecting the army's efficiency was within its scope. The inspector general similarly became a more respected role, with Thomas Henry Barry, commander of the Army of Cuban Pacification, considering his inspector to be one of his most important staff officers.[61]
In 1911, Secretary of War Jacob M. Dickinson submitted a plan to merge the Adjutant and Inspector General's Departments; another was presented by the General Staff in 1914, and again in 1915 in what led to the National Defense Act of 1916. Through those years, the inspectorate under Garlington was one of the most vocal advocates of motorizing the army. With the passage of the National Defense Act, the size of the inspectorate was increased to a maximum of thirty-three officers, and the army itself was dramatically increased in size. The inspectorate became responsible for oversight of the education and training of both officers and men, and its reports largely shaped changes in the education of officers.[63]
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The army was poorly prepared upon the entrance of the United States into World War I in 1917, and was restructured, with the Overman Act giving the president greater authority over the army. By July 1917, the caseload of the inspectorate had increased 360 percent from the previous year and by 65 percent in three months after the declaration of war. In order to meet the increased caseload, the inspectorate was dramatically expanded, to the point that it struggled to find suitable inspectors to add, and began requesting that former inspectors come out of retirement. In September, there were 89 officers (30 regulars, 10 recalled regulars, and 49 reservists). In November, the department was again increased to 164 officers and 125 enlisted men. It rose to 216 officers on November 12, 1918. Andre W. Brewster was selected as inspector general of the American Expeditionary Forces.[64]
In the period after World War I, the inspectorate dealt with many problems, including complaints over misdirected mail, misconduct by soldiers and damage to civilian property. Inspectors were active in France (until 1919), Russia (until 1920) and Germany (until 1923). The inspectorate peaked at 248 officers in 1919, the same year a plan to severely limit the Department's responsibilities was proposed. By 1920, 33 officers were in the Office of the Inspector General, while 54 remained at camps or in the geographical departments. In 1915 the office had handled about 9,500 actions, while by 1921 it processed nearly 17,700.[65]
In the National Defense Act of 1920, the inspectorate was reorganized, with an inspector general and 61 inspectors.[66] The secretary of war could shrink or increase the office by 15% without Congress passing a new law, and the department shrunk from 62 to 56 officers in June 1922 and, after several further rounds of downsizing, ended at 40 in 1923. In 1925, the inspectorate allocated the additional responsibility of inspecting ten monuments and twelve parks. In order to obtain better training for inspectors general, they would often receive training at civilian businesses and schools, including Sears & Roebuck. The department inspected finances and troops, with inspections increasing dramatically in numbers at the beginning of the 1930s,[67] under Hugh Aloysius Drum and his successors.[62] By the mid 1930s the War Department inspectorate was averaging about sixty major investigations annually. The department became responsible for inspecting the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1933.[68]
Later history (1940–2024)
By 1940, all subordinate commanders from division level were given an inspector general under their control to conduct inspections and investigations as needed. The army grew during World War II, and by 1945, there were about 3,000 IGs serving in the army. The rapid reduction in the size of the army from about 9 million in 1945 to a few hundred thousand in 1946, caused the inspector general to receive thousands of requests for help from soldiers being released from the army, largely because they were not being released quickly enough.[5]
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The statutory basis for the current inspectorate system comes from the 1950 Army Reorganization Act, which replaced the Inspector General's Department with the Office of the Inspector General (OTIG). The inspector general was responsible to the chief of staff, and responsive to the secretary of the army. The reorganization made the inspector general responsible for investigating the discipline, efficiency and economy of the army. They were particularly focused on training and combat readiness.[66] In 1952, the OTIG initiated an orientation course for officers selected to be inspectors general. Prior to this there was no provision for formal instruction, although the old Inspector General Department had maintained and distributed instructional material to each inspector general; including guides, handbooks and other procedural material.[5]
The qualifications for inspectors general were first formally codified in 1957.[5] In May 1956, the secretary of the army directed the Department of the Army to assume responsibility for technical proficiency inspections of the army's nuclear surety program worldwide. General Order No. 40, dated August 24, 1956, placed these inspections under the jurisdiction of the inspector general. The March 1960 revised Army Regulation 20-1, created a policy for inspector general technical proficiency inspections. The work of the inspector general was shared with allies, when the OTIG gave a course of instruction to groups composed entirely of foreign officers. In 1961, instruction was delivered to Republic of Korea Army officers in Seoul, Korea, and to Nationalist Chinese Army officers in Taipei, Formosa.[5][69] The 1978 IG Act created 12 statutory cabinet-level inspector generals across a range of government departments outside the Department of Defense, which led to the creation of the Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense.[66]
In 1986 the Goldwater-Nichols Reorganization Act reversed a portion of the 1950 Army Reorganization Act, making the inspector general responsible to the secretary of the army and responsive to the chief of staff. Additionally, the inspector general system became automated. The first effort was called the Inspector General Management Information Resource System (IGMIRS). IGMIRS was later replaced by the Inspector General Worldwide Network (IGNET).[5] The inspector general has since "inspected or reviewed soldier readiness programs, risk management programs, anti-terrorism and force protection, extremist group activities, homosexual conduct policy implementation, and the No Gun R massacre during the Korean War".[70] Since the creation of the IGNET, the inspectorate has remained relatively unchanged, with a revision to Army Regulation 20-1 in 2010 adjusting the OTIG's scope slightly.[69] Leslie C. Smith has been the inspector general since he was appointed on February 7, 2018.[1]
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Notes
- ^ Before 1924: Office of the Inspector General (OIG); after 1924, Office of the Inspector General (OTIG).[2]
- ^ They supervised "the dissolution of posts, issuing orders for the transport and care of the sick and invalids, and emptying the remaining hospitals," in essence disbanding most of the Army.[21]
- ^ The chief clerk of the War Department.[24]
- ^ Mentges served as Inspector of Contracts, and Sargent (then Adjutant General) primarily inspected military outposts.[28]
- ^ Of Edward Butler, Michael Rudolph, Jonathan Haskell and John Mills, Butler and Rudolph were aides of Wayne. Mills was nominated by Wayne as a permanent inspector general, but then was instead appointed as acting inspector general. All four served at various times as acting inspector general and Adjutant General.[30]
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