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

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SEVEN YEARSTOF THE CMTC SEVEN YEARS OE THE CMTC In IQZO the Military Training Camps Association appealed to the War Department for the establish- ment of camps for the voluntary training of young men, as authorized in the National Defense Act of that year. It Was especially fitting that the appeal should be made by this group, since it vvas composed of men who had themselves enrolled in pre-War camps in the four years from 1913 to 1916. The Secretary of War, the late Hon. John W. Weeks, approved the request and an appropriate item was included in the budget for the next fiscal year. When the proposal was presented to Congress by the Military Affairs Committees it was heartily supported by the Hon. James W. Wadsworth, Chairman of the Senate Com- mittee, and by the late Hon. Julius' Kahn, Chairman of the House Committee, both of Whom remained ardent friends of the camps during succeeding years. The first appropriation Was sufficient for the training of 1o,ooo young men at ten different centers throughout the country. The minimum age of admis- ll FIRST TO REPORT- A long, lean, freckle-faced lad, honest and good- humored, eager for thirty days in camp. sion Was fixed at sixteen years and plans Were made for a series of three courses-the Red, the White and the Blue, giving one month's training in successive years. Later the mini- mum age Was placed at seventeen and a preliminary course, the Basic, was added. Con- gress made the graduates of the last, the Blue Course, eligible for examination leading to a commission in the Grganized Reserves. For several years General John Pershing, the Chief of Staff, gave much thought and stimulus to the development of the camps in which he Was a strong believer. The same attitude has characterized the official Work of his successors, Major General John L. , n f f S' , C+. , XM. .4 , Z , 'ff W v 4 4 THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER -Unswerving devotion to our country and its flag is implanted in the heart of every young man who takes the oath of allegiance in the CMTC. Page Nine VY 7 y , , vv v vvvv vvv vvmva. . i ' .