Menoher, Patrick, and Moffett contain Mitchell

The institutional struggle continued immediately after Project B. Air Service chief Charles Menoher demanded that either Mitchell be relieved or he would resign; the government accepted Menoher's resignation and retained Mitchell. Pershing then selected Mason Patrick, who insisted that Mitchell could advise but would not set policy independently. Mitchell's attempt to displace Rear Admiral William Moffett as the senior American aviation voice at the Washington Naval Conference ended with Mitchell sent on a European inspection tour for the conference's duration.