Citizens Military Training Camp - Full Pack Yearbook (Fort Leavenworth, KS)

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-ZGDIULI' ,0TAC'K'99 as possible at all times. It is a good policy to occasionally volunteer to perform any needed services. Once in a while after your day's work is done if you will mention it to the company clerk, the atop sergeant or the company officers, they will find something that they need for you to do. You can tell them that you want to be of any help that you can be and that you also want to learn. If you have something that you do not thoroughly understand you will find them helpful in giving you individual instruction. For instance, the Manual of Arms is quite difficult. To learn to come to right shoulder arms from order arms, etc. snappily and in unison with the other members of the command requires considerable practice. Of course, in volunteering to do things and in asking for individual instruction do not overdo it. If you should continually be bothering them in that way they would get the notion that you had a selfish motive in it. just once in a while when you are not busy and you see that your superior officer is not busy, if you will talk to him along the lines I have indicated it will be helpful. I know that you are going to get along splendidly and that this experience will be a wonderful thing for you. I have only pointed out the above matters in order to try to About the CMTC When a little handful of men who valued their health and felt very strongly for pre- paredness against possible war in the United States got together and started the first Citizens' Military Training Camp at Plattsburg, they built far better than they realized. These men conducted this camp from purely patriotic motives, paying their own expenses for the most part and getting the rudiments of military training. Building up their health, and meeting their fellowmen on common ground, they were able a few years later, when the World War-came, to place at the disposal of their government thousands of men who had been trained at Plattsburg and other camps as suitable officer material for the new army that was to be formed. ' After it became a certainty that the United States was to participate in the World War, the Military Training Camps Association, which was the outgrowth of the Platts- burg Movement, placed at the disposal of the Secretary of War a well worked out plan for the training of officers. This was eventually adopted, and the Oflicers' Training Camps of the war came into being. The war was won. The army created was disbanded, and we are now back to civil pursuits and life, but there still remains the same need for military preparedness and training of young men of the country as existed in the old Plattsburg days. Not the train- ing for war, but the training for peace. Especially is such training needed as looks after the health of the young man and gives him such lectures on constitutional government and constitutional authority as will become valuable in making a better citizen of him. Especial attention is given to the development of the young man from all angles in the present Citizens' Military Training Movement, and it is the hope of the men behind it that they will be able to develop in this movement men of leadership, men of outstanding ability, and men who have the capacity for becoming the new officers of the Reserve Army of the United States. The training itself brings out the good traits of the young man. The regular hours for sleeping and eating, for work and for play are especially valuable. Military courtesy and etiquette fit him for the nicer things of life. Altogether, it is one of the best things for the rising generationithat has ever been attempted by the United States government. be of some help to you. C. S. WALKER, Civilian Aide to Sec'y of War. Seventh Corps Area. Page One Hundred Three

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-2G fUl.l,5b0l5A H099 How to Succeed HERE'S A TIP FELLOWS Following if a copy of a letter .rent to Cadet foreplz Noel Daoif, Company HG , written by hi: uncle, Mr. Henry Daoir of fejerfon Jouri. Quite accidentally the letter came to the attention of one of the ojjicerr. Mr. Daw: kindly gave hir confentfor ity publication. Jefferson City, Missouri. July 30, 1923- My dear Noel: ' I was glad to learn from your father that you intend to enter the training camp at Leavenworth. If taken rightly there is no experience or training which equals that which you get in the army. There was an old notion that no one but roughnecks ever entered the army. I learned that thatimpression was a wrong one. It is the finest possible training for the mind, the body, and the soul. There are those who get into the army and abuse all three, but they are a limited number. Most men come out of military service vastly improved in all three. A large part of the male population of this country was under arms BRIGADIER GENERAL DOREY AND MAJOR from I86O till 1865. At the conclusion of the Civil GENERAL GEORGE B. DUNCAN 7th Corps Area Commanders War they laid down their arms and became the strength and bulwarki of the nation. Among these men was your grandfather, who wasla good man and a good citizen. His military service did not make him a bad man. A You take this training with the end in view of ultimately obtaining a commission in the Reserve Corps. That is a splendid ambition. I do not suppose that you contemplate becoming a professional soldier. While it is a fine life, and is splendid work and splendid service, I feel, though, that you do not intend to make it your life's work. You would like, I assume, if the necessity ever comes for you to take up arms, to be in a position to intelli- gently do it and to command other men in doing so. That is a very laudable desire. The first thing that you will learn is that no one can command the obedience of others who has not himself first learned to obey. That is why army life demands implicit obedience to the orders of all higher commanders. When any order shall be given to you, no matter whether you think that it is right or wrong, it will be your duty to obey it. In fact, you will be subject to severe punishment if you do not obey it. I know that you have been disciplined. You have had home discipline and it has been good. It is not so exacting as you will find in the army. There you will be told at what hour you must retire and at what hour you must arise, the exact time at which you must eat your meals, and you will be told to work, to drill, etc., and the exact time that you must put in at it. It will be necessary for you to obtain permission at any time that you might care to leave the post or reserva- tion. All of these things may seem annoying to you to start with, but I know that you will fall into the spirit of the game and comply with every rule and regulation. Your father has told me that you have .done considerable physical labor throughout the summer and that you are in good shape to stand the training. Make yourself as useful Page One Hundred Two City, Miffouri. Mr. Daoif if the Arfiftant Attorney General of Mif-

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