Citizens Military Training Camp - Sentinel Yearbook (Fort Sheridan, IL)

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EIGHT YEARS OF THE CMTC ,g --,,,.. .. irq N x . f 1: 1 l SUNDAY SERVICES are under the charge of chaplains of various faiths. qualification-these were only a few of the larger questions to be settledg they were coupled with a mass of minor problems. As the camps grew in number the difliculty arose of fit- ting in the CMTC month with the training of the ROTC and of the Reserve regiments and also of the National Guard wherever sites were used in common. As the enrollment grew the problem appeared of how best to supplement for training purposes the personnel of the Regular Army with oflicers commissioned in the Organized Reserves. It is hard to overestimate the patient and intelligent reflection and experimentation of the General Staff in the XVar Department and of the various Commanding Generals and the Corps Area Staffs in the determination of wise policy and practice as each difliculty arose. The Citizens, Camps of today have been slowly evolved through years of effort. livery one concerned in any way with the CMT Camps makes his own contribution to their success. Representatives and Senators of the Congress of the United States provide funds for their maintenance. Regular Army oflicers carry through the camp Wav CLASSES IN CITIZENSHIP are in the program of every camp. Pngv Elcvfn

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EIGHT YEARS OF THE CMTC Dwroirr F. Davis The Sz-crcfury of Wur type were filled by those who saw the imminent danger of war. After the Armistice the Citizens' Camps were planned on a large scale and while primarily for the security of the country their rea- son for being was based mainly on peace-time needs. A suitable pro- gram for the camps had to be devised. Determi- nation of the proper minimum age for accept- ance, nice discrimination in the assignment of hours respectively for military drill and for general physical train- ing, careful consideration of discipline appropriate to the camps with meth- ods of its enforcement, adaptation of the daily schedule to the bodily powers of the youth at- tending, responsibility which should attach to the filing of applications, number of successive years to be included in the training courses, de- sirable requirements for ultimate commissions in the Reserves, compara- tive advantage of large and small camps, mini- mum basis of physical ff LL . ' 1 TRAMP, TRAMP, TRAMP -Cadenced step, patriotic music, streaming flags and pennants mark their consecration for days of peace or danger. Pagr Tm N. . . . . . . .v .v.v.v. . . . . . . . - . . ' .v.v.v.V- . - -UN .vv.1.v.v.v-v.V.v.v-VNVv.

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EIGHT YEARS OF THE CMTC B .S Q PRESTON BROWN HANSON E. ELY FRED W.SLADEN 5 O M E I MAJ O R G ENNERALS -. ' fgaggf '14, N C A , E if ' A M. ,- ylw ' , .Q , 4,1 J V' 343 ' six . RICHMONDRDAVIS I l DENNIS E.NOLAN ' PAULBJVIALONE 0 P THE Us. ARMY w HARRY A,SMlTH WILLIAM LASSITER JOHN L. HINE5 1 ag' Y v'lvf