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

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lf THE STORY OF THE CAMPS K nf N Q t 4 f i The significance of the Citizens' Military Training Camps cannot be fully appreciated by any one. Those young men know it best, perhaps, who have attended the camps during the past five years, one hundred and twenty-five thousand of them in forty training centers from Maine to California and from the Canadian border to the Gulf. These young men went from home and school, from farm, office and factory. Many went to training points well-known in the days of ,I7 and ,IS-DCVCHS, Meade, Plattsburg, McClellan, Knox, Custer and Lewis. Others gathered at regular army posts, Mc- Kinley, DuPont, Benjamin Harrison, Snelling, Des Moines, Leavenworth, Jefferson Barracks, Sam Hous- ton, Bliss, Crockett, Logan, Douglas, Wright and Del Monte. Some journeyed for special training in the Artillery to Madison Barracks, Bragg and Sill, in the Cavalry to Ethan Allen, Oglethorpe, Russell and Huachuca, in the Signal Corps to Camp Vail or for coast defense work to many s-tations from Fort Adams to Fort Scott. They remember their emotions when enrolling, they remember the varied experiences of camp life, but only by the introspection which comes with years will they realize the full value of the lessons there received. Fathers and mothers whose sons went to the CMTC welcomed them back more vigorous in THE STORY OP THE CAMPS 'T THE BUGLE CALL never fails to give the new boy a thrill. mind and body, but they are hardly conscious of the years during which army officers and civilians joined in thought and work for the success of the Citizens' Camps. A great vision filled the mind of Leonard Wood, when as Major General and Chief-of- Staff, he proposed and directed the first camps in the summer of IQI3 at Gettysburg and Monterey. These were college camps intended primarily to arouse an interest in the sub- ject of National Defense. President Wilson endorsed them for their contribution also to physical health and character. The first Business and Professional men's camps, organized THE GATES OF OPPORTUNITY-Beyond lies a world full of new experiences. What thrills of antici- pation possess these young men from office and factory, home and school! Pngr Nfur' . . I . I . 1 1.1-1-I-VaI.'n'4U.14BVaUeV.'.lIuU-51-51. .Vg - V494 I