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

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THE FULL PACK 'K lr 5 'Z if HISTORY OF COMPANY D RAYMOND HERRMANN It was not long after the opening of camp that rookies of Company DH discovered they had a different kind of work ahead of them than other Infantry companies. The significant difference be- tween Company D and other companies was that while men of other Companies were issuedbelts and rifies, Dv Company recruits were issued belts and holsters-Company HD was to be one of the two machine gun companies of the camp. - The men found their Company Commander, Captain Dunn, to be a real fellow and soon learned that he gave the same fair and square treatment which he demanded 'of his men. Lieutenants Willis, Thompson and Lane, commanders of the'First, Second and Third Platoons were also efficient, maintaining - at all times a spirit of friendliness and cooperation A among the men of their units. RAYMOND HERRMAN It became evident after the first day of gun drill that the Browning Machine Gun was considerably more complex than the Springfield Rifie. After that first day the tired students heard, mingled with their snores, the voices of Sergeants Gabriel and Stout and Corporal Culver, instructors of the Third Infantry, as they had heard them on the drill field- Browning machine gun, model of IQI7, 30 calibre, water cooled, recoil ..... fire from 425 to 525 rounds per minute ..... number one takes the tripod, two the gun, three the . . '. . . traversing dial always level .... then take the combination tool. In the flrst cart drill some of the mule 'fpushersn experienced difficulty in keeping step with the mules, this art was soon mastered, however, by watching the mules' ears. The student officers of the Company and the positions which they held were as fol- lows: Seitz, Student Captain and Battalion Adjutant, Spring, Student Lieutenant and Battalion Commander, Morrison, Student Lieutenant and Company Commander, Herr- mann, Student Lieutenant and Company Commander, Christis, Student Lieutenant, and Price, Student Lieutenant. When the final awards were made, Company DH was prominent. Watkins won the camp bantamweight boxing championship and went to the finals in wrestling. Ross Smith, another boxer, went to the finals in the Welterweight division. The kittenball team won the battalion championship but was defeated by Company NIU for the regi- mental honors. In swimming, Roger Smith took first place in plunge for distance and in the breaststroke, M. N. Northup won first in the 20 yard dash and Cochran placed first in backstroke. A Springer was awarded first in the talk on the American fiag. Wolf won the Company Civitan medal. Seitz was chosen as the best Blue in the Company,Price, the best White, Adelstein, the best Red, and Morrison, the best Basic. Herrmann was awarded the cup as best news reporter and represented the Companyas the best all-around man from Kansas. Morrison competed as best man from Arkansas. Wright was chosen as best Basic man from Cherokee County, Kansas. Page Fzfty-three , M .vljgwmf 1 1 , ' , v v v v v v v v v v v v v v mvmv. va. ' 0

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l e l P I l l THE THIRD BATTAL1oN I OFFICERS OF 17TH - INFANTRY Palmer, Capt. R. B. Capt. C. E. Campbell. BOTTOM Rovv-Lt. F. A. ney, Lt. L. W. Johnson, Lt. I. K. Evans, Lt. B. FI. Thurston. HISTORY OF THI-317111 TNFANTRY Organized under the Acts of Congress of January II and June 26, 1812, and first formed from personnel mainly from Kentucky, the Regiment Was officially known as the Seventeenth Infantry. Its Colonel Was Samuel Wells, appointed from the Kentucky Militia. On May 17, 1815, the Regiment Was consolidated with the First, Nineteenth, Twenty-eighth, and Thirty-ninth Regiments of Infantry, to form the Third Regiment. By direction of the President, May 4, 1861, the Regiment was again organized as a three battalion regiment. The organizing of the Regiment in 1861 for the Civil War was at Fort Preble, Maine, and it immediately participated in the Peninsular Campaign. During the War the Regi- ment took meritorious part in twenty-tvvo engagements. The tvvo most striking exploits of the Regiment's Civil War services were the parts it took in the fighting of Devil's Den at the Battle of Gettysburg, and in carrying the stone Wall at the battle of Fredericksburg. Following the Civil War the Regiment was engaged in reconstruction duty in the West. This period included what have probably been the most trying of its duties. The suppression of Indian outbreaks, guarding the construction of railroads, establishing outlying posts, and assisting pioneers of the frontier, were accomplishments hardly less glorious than its action on the field of battle. . In June, 1899, the organization Was sent to the Philippine Islands to quell the Philip- pine Insurrection. It returned to the United States in 1892, and Was stationed on the Pacihc Coast. The Regiment's second duty in the Philippines, its services in Cuba as a part of the Army of Pacification, and, later on, its service on the Mexican Border carried it to 1919. The opening of the World War found the Regiment stationed at Forts McPherson and Oglethorpe, guarding interned German sailors. The entire Regiment assembled in June at Chickamauga Park, Georgia, for training. In June, 1922, it was sent to Fort Crook, Nebraska, Where it Was formed into a combat regiment with its Second and Third Battalions at Fort Omaha. I Of the sixty-five years of the Regiment's history, forty-two have been in service against the enemies of the Republic. These services have been in actual Warfare, Indian and frontier troubles, and in quelling civil disturbances. It has a record of over fifty battles and engagements. ToP Row-Lt. M. A. Quinn, Capt. D. A. Moore, Major Pritchett, Capt. F.. N. Herbert, Rudolph, Lt. J. A. Dab-