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APA - Division of Military Psychology (Division 19)
Intelligence Testing in the United States Military
Navy Recruit Screening Cards - 1919 (Permission to use scan and copy all forms granted by Frederick L. McGuire, Captain, MSC, USNR, Retired).
These Screening Cards were developed largely in response to a cable from General Pershing sent on July 15, 1918, several months after the American Expiditionary Force arrived in France. The cable read as follows:
"Prevalence of mental disorders in replacement troops recently received suggest urgent importance of intesive efforts in eliminating mentally unfit from organisation's new draft prior to departure from the United States. Psychiatric forces and accommodations here inadequate to handle a grater proportion of mental cases than heretofore arriving, and if less time is taken to organise and train new division, elimination work should be speeded."
