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

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EIGHT YEARS or THE CMTCY A 'A r It functions throughout the training month both for individuals and for groups in all the activities of the camp, military, athletic and social. This spirit of rivalry, at once keen and generous, tends to good morale and is emphasized by the offer of all kinds of prizes in every sort of contest. The pennants which are daily awarded for the HBest Tenti' and the Best Company Street produce a camp cleanliness of almost unbelievable per- fection. lfxcellence in drill and marks- manship is the competitive aim of every squad, platoon, company, troop and battery. Even the more formal instruc- tion in citizenship is marked by a desire to surpass and thus to win one of the appropriate medals, while the scholar- ships at colleges and universities are always the occasion for special effort. The average of purpose, effort and attainment is high in every Citizens' Camp. A new gospel of health has been preached to the American people by hundreds of thousands of young men who have been in the training camps. They were admitted only after a rigorous Q physical examination. Through thirty days each had impressed upon him the need of bodily fitness. livery drill period made him feel the value of sturdy muscle. In all athletic sports he learned that mental alertness should be coupled with nerve coordination. The CMT Camps have thus sowed wide the seed for a harvest of physical, no less than mental, health and vigor in American youth. cildfillflld I . .IAMI-is IfJ'L'l'lIfIl'l'IJ Szfnrartury, .1l7'C'.-1 All MARCHING OUT FOR MORNING DRILL Pagf Twruly-four , 0 f .v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.1.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.' I ' I-V-V-v-VN-Wv-v-vav.v.v.v-v- -v-V-V-V-WV-'NN-V-V-V-V

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EIGHT YEARS OF THE CMTC If I Af there runs throughout the principle of i selection. Of the original applicants those only are accepted who are of the requisite age, of average intelligence and schooling, of sound character and in good hodily condition. At the end of the lirst year a certain percentage fails of recom- mendation for the next higher course. Only those who are competent and of good record are permitted, or indeed desire, to go on after the Basic through the Red and Wfhite Courses. It is a select group which applies for training in the fourth year, the Blue Course, and these men must have completed at least a secondary school, or its equivalent, and Hmust possess the personality, ap- pearance, tact, bearing and general adaptability which will lit them, after further training in the Blue Course, to take the necessary mental and physical examination to be oliicers of the Oflicers' Reserve Corps . This selective prin- ciple, unconsciously working in the individual and consciously functioning l through the regulations. is of great significance to the CMTC. .sn-.-ffm-if uw'-1 The second principle is competition. 'A Tom lt. Wx'm'::-i ss THE BEST TENT in each company street of many camps is marked for honor by daily award The young men in that tent which wins most often in the thirty days draw lots to see which one shall carry the coveted pennant to his home! Pngr 1'tcw1Ly-lllrrf' . I .v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.1.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.' I 1 ,.,,,.,.,.,M,.'mv'vNN.' 'mv 'Mmm' 'mv v ' V - - . . . . 1

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