![]() ![]() The last pre-war scout regiments to be raised were the 91st and 92nd Coast Artillery, formed at Fort Mills, Corregidor Island, in 1924. Although the 43rd, 62nd Infantry and 25th Field Artillery (PS) were disbanded in 1922 because of the reduction of the army, several of the battalions were used to form the new 26th Cavalry (PS).Įxcept for the 26th Cavalry, the existing Scout units - augmented by an infantry brigade consisting of the 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry (the 2nd and 3rd Battalions of which were stationed in Tientsin, China) and 31st Infantry - were organized into the Philippine Division, which included the newly raised Scout 14th Engineer and 12th Medical Regiments, the Philippine Division Quartermaster Train (redesignated the 12th Quartermaster Regiment in 1936), and the 12th Ordnance and 12th Signal Companies. These regiments were in turn formally incorporated into the numerical structure of the Regular Army when, in 1920, they were consolidated (on paper) with several inactivated Regular Army regiments formed during World War I and redesignated the 43rd, 45th, 57th, 62nd Infantry and 24th and 25th Field Artillery (Philippine Scouts). In 1917, these battalions were further consolidated to form four provisional regiments, designated the 1st through 4th Philippine Infantry (Provisional), and the 1st Philippine Field Artillery (Provisional). ![]() ![]() Over the years, the separate and far-flung Scout companies concentrated in particular posts and formed into a dozen battalions. In some ways, the Scouts could be compared to the old Indian Army of the British Raj, building over 40 years of service to the United States, its own traditions, identity, and pride, well reflected in the mottoes adopted by its regiments in the 1920s: "Our Strength is in Loyalty," "Strong to Endure," and "Anywhere, Anytime."īy America's entry into World War I in 1917, 52 companies of Scouts had been formed, including two companies recruited from the Muslims of Mindanao and Sulu whose base of operations was Pettit Barracks, in the town of Zamboanga. Volunteer regiments who were granted commissions in the Philippine Scouts. Recruited from Filipinos residing throughout the islands, the majority of its officers were Regular Army officers, originally, soldiers from the disbanded U.S. Unlike the Constabulary, formed as a police force reporting to civil authorities, the Philippine Scouts were always a military formation within the US Army. Scout companies campaigned in Southern Luzon in the early years, were mobilized on Samar in 1906-07 to quell a rebellion whose first volley was the destruction of the 38th Company of Scouts, and assaulted the fortress of Bud Bagsak on Jolo Island in 1913 under the command of Brigadier General John Pershing. Formed in October 1901 towards the end of America's campaign to conquer the Philippines, the first companies of Scouts were raised in various provinces of the country to augment the regular and volunteer regiments which were the vanguard of "Manifest Destiny." With the formal close of the Philippine-American War, more and more responsibility for preserving American authority was shifted, first, to the Scouts, and later, in the wake of pacification, to the new Philippine Constabulary.ĭespite the formal end to the "Insurrection," sporadic resistance continued in several provinces for over a decade. The Philippine Scouts were a component of the Regular Army which had its roots in the urge for empire which captivated the leading powers of Europe - and the United States - in the last quarter of the 19th Century. ![]()
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