Central Officers Training School - Shavetail Yearbook (Fort Gordon, GA)

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si.. M. BIAJOR RALPH .I. GINCRICH Senior Instructor WG MAJOR JOSEPH B. DUKE Assistant Senior Instructor

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sa-,-......,,As.4 V in Y - jf! ard established by previous schools, the corps of instruc- tors the best obtainable, with the added advantage of many exceptional instructors with overseas experience with the French and British. The schedules were co- ordinated and standardized in such a manner as to en- able instructors and students to utilize the training period to the maximum extent. After consideration of numerous factors the War Department ordered that these several divisional schools be collected into Centralized Officers Training Schools, under centralized supervision, with centralized instruc- tion and centralized attendance. The Camp Gordon School is representative of the splendid result accom- plished by this action, and its achievements the best pos- sible evidence of the Wisdom of the move. It is with the Fifth Battalion, senior inthe school as this is Written, that this book is chiefly concerned, and xv . Q- - ,..-..... ...-.-,..--a........-.-.,,. .-,..-,- .............-.--n f'-M' gg-'C ff-piqilh - ' with its labors and leisure, its trials and triumphs, that the pictures and paragraphs hereinafter printed have to deal. It is possible that for many of us the Fifth Battalion will remain as our last experience in the army, as for others it will stand as the first. The armistice, the immi- nent peace, and the enforced action under the circum- stances of commissioning the graduates in the Reserve, send us, temporarily at least, to civil life instead of to the trenches. Whether the transfer is permanent or not, in no Way can affect our regard for the organization of which we are now a part, or our vivid recollection of the Battalion's virile existence. The Fifth will always remain, as it is now, our battalion, its men, our meng its fortunes, good or ill, our own.

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