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

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MQYU LLC' of the year it is hoped that this will be complete. ln Missouri the Civilian Aide was forced, on account of serious illness, to ask for temporary relief from dutyg but his place was most effectively taken by Albert T. Perkins of St. Louis who had been state chairman for the Military Training Camps Association in the two preceding years. This Association not only assisted in the procurement of candidates but through its visiting com- mittees and through the prizes for which it had arranged, especially the much valued medals For Excellencef' it made a considerable contribution during the month of training to both camp publicity and camp morale. It is gratifying to note that the Seventh Corps Area led all others in the total number of students enrolled. Publicity for the Citizens' Military JAMES N. MUNRO Col. Cav., Chief of Stajf 88th Div., Organized Reserves Page TZUE71Zy ,QFACKOQQ CHARLES STANLEY WALKER Civilian Aide to the Secrfiary of War Seventh Corps Area Training Camps becomes less of a prob- lem with each passing year as the nature of this opportunity is more widely known. Everywhere the public press is most generous of space, recognizing the con- tribution which the CMTC makes to national defense, domestic security and good citizenship. Enrollment for future camps depends also in great measure on the active interest of young men who have so far volunteered for this type of training. Major General George B. Duncan, commanding Seventh Corps Area, has encouraged in every possible way CMTC students of Fort Snelling, of Fort Des Moines and of Fort Leaven- worth to join together in little local groups for the purpose of maintaining the ties which they have formed in camp and of making themselves through ef- fective organization available as sub- -OTLK

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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

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.2cwl:Ul.lf', XNILLIAM H. CLENDENIN OTACKOQQ stantial helpers in announcing the CMTC of IQ24 and succeeding years. A Word should be added in apprecia- tion of the self-sacrificing devotion which physicians have shown throughout the Seventh Corps Area in acting as medical examiners for prospective candidates. The ofhcers of the Medical Corps, both in the Regular Army and in the Organ- ized Reserve, have naturally cooperated in this Work, as Well as those of the National Guard. In addition, many physicians in spite of the onerous nature of their daily practice and although they had themselves no direct con- nection With the Army of the United States, except as all good citizens are concerned for its Welfare, gave liberally of their time, energy and professional attainments to this movement for volun- tary training. C Similar recognition is due to the Worli of the coun resentatives of the Mili- Lieul.-Col. Inf., Chief of Staf Ioznd Div., Organized Reserves tary Training Camps Association. They are substantial citizens in their respective communities, men of affairs Whose busi- ness or professional interests normally make full claim upon them. Out of sincere devotion to the training camp movement, however, they devoted them- selves in a patriotic spirit to the enroll- ment of candidates for the three training centers in the Seventh Corps Area, giving in many cases a direct contribution of money in addition to their time, thought and energy. In ultimate analysis CMTC procurement depends for its success on the actual personal contact of an en- thusiastic county chairman vvith the available candidates in his own neighbor- hood, and this bids fair to be true until with each passing year there are more young men who have been at a training camp and realize the opportunity afforded them. I g Page Twenty-Iwo JAY P. HOPKINS Lieut.-Col., CAC, Chief of Staj' 89th Div., Organized Reserves