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

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To Citizens' Military Training Camp Candidates: OU young men of the Corps Area are to be congratulated upon having attendedthe Citizens' Military Training Camp. You have shown a desire to benefit yourselves and at the same time prepare yourselves to meet your obligations as citizens. You have been improved physically, your un- derstanding of your duties and privileges as citizens has been broadened, your ability to do more and better 'work has been increased, your capacity to direct the efforts of others has become greater, and .in every way you have been better prepared to attain success in its broadest sense. It is hoped that you will apply in your everyday life the lessons learned in camp, and that you will realize that, Whether in peace or war, your country is entitled to your best efforts. We hope that those of you who are not completing the Blue Course this year will return next year and bring your friends, wire hope that thoseniii you who are being graduated from the Blue Course may attain the greatest success in your chosen endeavors, and that the lessons you have learned in these camps may be no small factor in achieving that success. GOULD DIETZ, Civilian Aide to the Secretary of Wai for the Seventh Corps Area.

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I Students attending the entire series of camps will discover that the course of instruc- tion is based on a well worked out program which carries the applicant from the elemen- tary recruit training to the point where he may qualify as a junior company ofhcer. The training given at the summer camps is not confined to essentially military subjects. A great deal of time is devoted to athletic sports which are designed to develop physical strength and mental alertness as well as bring to the surface the qualities so essential to the soldier and officer-thejability to think and act quickly and the ability to direct the efforts of others. Although the summer camps are. conducted under the supervision of officers of the Army and the environment is a military' one, the training itself is essentially civilian in its character. Proficiency in the military arts is one of the objects to-be attained by the camps but one of the most important ends sought is to make the young men of the nation qualified for effective service as citizens. ' ln the Regulations setting forth the policy governing the Camps their object is stated to be as follows: . , . . . To develop closer national and social unity by bringing together young men of all type-s, both native and foreign borng to teach the privileges, duties and responsi- bilities of citizenshipg to stimulate the interest of the youth of the country in the im- portance of military training as a benefit to the individual taking such training and as an asset vital to the problem of national defense. The purpose of these camps and the methods employed in their conduct are in keep- ing with our traditionsf The making of our national policies, including those dealing with defense, always has been and always will be in the hands of civilians and it is only the function of the Army to carry them out. e The planning and execution of the summer training program is a function of the Regular Army,.but since the personnel to be trained consists entirely of civilians, it is fitting that civilians should assist the War Department in obtaining enrollments for these camps.