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

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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

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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 schedule for thirty days before or after the period .of their own field training each year. Enlisted men are detailed to extra duty not only in the preparation of sites but in the ff 5 , W. 4 xt maintenance of the camps. Every father and mother makes a contribution, sometimes a bit doubtfully, when the son often for the first time leaves home to enroll in a CMTC. livery young man who attends offers his own sacrifice, perhaps of a chance for wage- earning or for a vacation more pleasureable than camp routine and discipline, perhaps merely his preference for a time of doing what he pleases in his own way. In no way is the training month to be construed as idle vacationing. The program represents real Work, though not arduous. Discipline is effective, although never arbitrary or Stern. Physical training comes largely through outdoor games but under expert direction and with a high standard for individual attainment. Recreations are varied in kind and with an ample time allowance but the young man who finishes a CMT Camp remembers longest the hours of drill or sentry duty. He recognizes with satisfaction that the thirty days attendance called upon his responsibility and endurance. ' President Coolidge has called the Citizens' Camps, essentially schools in citizenshipn and perhaps no better description can be given. After the month of training they send young men to their homes with a deeper sense of civic obligation and a greater determin- ation to fulfill the opportunity and responsibility of citizenship. The camps are under the administration of the VVar Department, because it is the only governmental agency fitted to conduct them. We have a small Regular Army, which is called upon to fill many functions aside from its primary duty in national security. Of all its varied activities none commands greater public approval than its management of the summer camps. Through them in all parts of the country parents, voters and tax payers come for the first time into direct touch with the officers of the Unted States SWIMMING POOLS offer healthful recreation at all training centers which are not located on ocean, lake or river. f , Page Tlzirzern . . . . . . . . . . . - -1- - -v- - - - - - - - N-V-' .v.v.v.v.v. .vv.v v.v.v v.v.v.v. . .v. .v.v.v v.v.