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

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-ZGQFU l.L sFAC'K 9-9 From the Corps Area Commander To THE CMTC STUDENTS! The purpose of the Citizens' Military Training Camps is to promote good health, good citizenship, and a capacity and Willingness for national service in time of need. We have not tried to make professional soldiers of you, but to give you training of' real Worth to you and to our country. No man can do his best Work Without 'excellent physical and mental health. A judicious combination of Work and play in the open air With proper hygienic care of the person and sanitary surroundings, Will make a young man healthy in body and alert in mind. Physical vigor, manliness, and alert intelligence, initiative, self-discipline, and respect for constituted authority, are fundamental results of military training, and these you have received. In addition, you are broadened in vievv and educa- tion by your close association with young men from different localities. You have been benefited by your experience in camp, and these benefits to you are of value to the Nation. By undergoing this period of camp training, you have shown a proper patriotism, you have done some of the things which it is the duty of every citizen to do, viz: improved your bodies and minds, and prepared yourselves, in a measure, to be of real use for National Defense. The young men of the country are the dependence of our Nation for its defense against foreign aggression. We can say With pride that never in the past have you failed her. But some of you, your fathers, and your grandfathers, have suffered grievous hard- ships and have met With heavy losses because of lack of training. By your voluntary at- tendance here you have shovvn by action rather than by Word, that the coming generation of our citizens is determined to make no more the fatal error of unpreparedness. You are to be congratulated on your intelligent foresight, and, above all, the country is to be congratulated on the possession of such splendid citizens. We hope inthe years to come to increase the capacity of our Citizens' Camps to the point Where all young men can avail themselves of the privilege of attending them. Next year the War Department intends that the number of men trained shall be nearly double that of this year. The success of the National Defense Policy of the United States depends, in great measure, upon the success of these camps-upon you young men. As the Commanding General of the Seventh Corps Area, I thank each one of you personally for the interest you have shown and the excellent manner in which you have per- formed your duties. Come again next year and bring your friends with you. G- B- DUNCAN, C LAROY S. UPTON A , ol. Inf., Chief of St jf Major General, U. S. Army. Seventh Corps Areg Page N inelem '

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GEORGE B. DUNCAN Illajor Gfneml, U. S. Afrmy Commanding Seventh Corps Area Pagf Eighlfen

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-ZGQFU L LQWVOTAC H9409 CMTC Recruiting in the Seventh Corps Area Looking forward to camp procurement for IQ23 the Corps Area Commander detailed Major John M. Pruyn as Officer in Charge of CMTC Affairs and directed that the entire Military Personnel of the Seventh cooperate in recruiting for the three training centers at Fort Snelling, Fort Des Moines and Fort Leavenworth. Procurement was greatly helped by the cooperation of the National Guard and of the Reserve Officers throughout the Corps Area, the latterunder the leadership of the Chiefs of Staff of the Organized Reserve Divisions, Colonel James M. Munro, Cav., of the 88th Division with headquarters in Minneapolis, Lieutenant Colonel William H. Clendenin, Inf., Ioznd Division with head- quarters in St. Louis,and Lieutenant-Colonel Jay P. Hopkins, CAC., of the 89th Division with headquarters in Omaha. Naturally the CMTC camp assignment and recruiting were organized to a large extent to accord geographically with the Reserve Divisions but for purposes of economy in transportation South Dakota was joined to North Dakota and Minnesota for Fort Snelling, Nebraska and the northeastern counties of Missouri with Iowa for Fort Des Moinesgand the rest of Missouri and Arkansas with Kansas for Fort Leavenworth. As elsewhere, many social, professional, commercial and agricultural organizations gave their hearty cooperation in CMTC recruiting, all united under the leadership of the Military Training Camps Association in which Charles Stanley Walker acted as Civilian Aide to the Secretary of War for the Seventh Corps Area. With him were associated the following gentle- men as Civilian Aides each for his own State: W. C. Macfadden, North Dakota, M. H. Colgrove, South Dakota, G. E. Ingersoll, Minnesota, Ralph Henry Faxon, Iowa, O. E. Engler, Nebraska, Wilder S. Metcalf, Kansas, Ira E. Wight, Missouri, C. Conway, Arkansas. Each State Aide ap- pointed, as far as time permitted, his per- sonal representative in every county as the chairman of a committee which in- cluded usually a National Guard and a Reserve Officer, one or more physicians as voluntary medical examiners and other public spirited citizens. In this way a permanent organization was built up to be placed at the service of the Corps Area Commander for future CMTC recruiting. It could not be perfected in the short interval between the establishment by the Secretary of War of this plan for Civilian Aides and the opening of active recruiting, but in most States a fairly complete list was made of Seventh CorpsArea county representatives, and before the end JOHN MCE. PRUYN Maj. Inf., CMTC Ojicer Page Twenty