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

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I THE FULL PAC-K ' 1 There is another bunch of men who have been most helpful in making the camp go, and I ,think it has been a wonderful camp. The men I refer to now is yourselves. You have certainly played the game one hundred per cent. You have heenstraight shooters and that is all anyone can ask or expect. It has been splendid toifhaive you youngsters herefyou are all youngsters tolme--it has been fine. Sometimes it has been pretty hot and no doubt some of you from the Ozarks were not used .to it, but no matter what you have been called upon to do, you have put it over one hundred per cent. In behalf of the officers, in behalf of all connected with training you, I want to thank you. We feel proud of you and we feel as proud of the camp as you do and you have every reason toibe proud. To my mind, this is a big movement. It started about three years ago, although it is, in a way, a continuation of the old Plattsburg camp. That camp might be considered as a forerunner. Of the students at this carnp this year, thirty-six per cent were men who had been in other camps. I was sent to Fort Snelling to inspect that camp up there. They had thirty-live per cent, practically the same number of men coming back as we had-. We hope we will have a greater percentage of men coming back this year. Do not for an instant think we believe that we have made trained soldiers out of you in a month. We haven't expected to, we haven't intended to. We have tried to show you some of the essentials of soldiers, tried to show you the value of team work. One man is as good as another so far as we are concerned. W'e have tried to show you that a man who stands up and looks everybody else in theeye and plays the game is the man we are looking for, but, in addition, we.have tried to put a small basic foundation for what we believe is very essential in this country-we call' it Citizenship. You young men, in about ten or fifteen years, will be the' men who are, going to run this country. This work we have done' here, if it has gone over as we hope,4will grow with you. You will appreciate as you get older what this country means. It has been my privilege to visit practically every state in this Union in the course 'of my career as an army officer and it has been my privilege to visit the countries abroad, GENERAL Kwc GOVERNOR BEN S. PAULEN, Cor.oNE1. MITCHELL, GENERAL Wu.nEa S. METCALF, COLONEL ' 7 . KiNNEY, C. S. IIUFFMAN, CrviLmN Aide for Kansas, LrEv'r-CoLoNEL J. S. Youuc, CorpsArea CMTC Oflicer - ' ' Page On: Hundrzd Thrfe Vnvn'-YaYnV1Y.V-Va'eY.'nYnV.7uVuYn I I y 1 . . . - I I

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