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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'Qhxx Y THE SENTINEL OFFICE OF THE COMMANDING GENERAL SIXTH CORPS AREA CHICAGOJLLINOIS September 7, 1928. To the Citizens' Military Training Camp Students of 1938. You have participated in and made possible another successful year in the Nation's Citizenship Training. The assistance rendered the Government by the Military Training Camps Association, the Civilian Aides to the Secretary of War and every individual of the procurement organization was of the highest order this work was so well performed by the procurement personnel and medical examiners that the number of non-arrivals and rejections at camp was exceedingly small. The student body attending camp this year was of high type and gave evidence of ability to meet the standards of responsibility which the Gov- ernment offers to graduates. The great benefits derived by you in camp are well known. None are more important than that you carry back to your homes and schools the lessons of patriotism, courtesy and willing service which were taught you. The increase in attendance from sixty-three young men in 1913, who paid their own expenses to and from camp, to a total of over thirty-five thousand five hundred this year, is clearly indicative of the approval of this great national movement to which you have contributed by your presence and cooperation. With best wishes for your future success as citizens of our great Nation, I am Yours very sincerely, fr! PAUL Major General, U. S. Army, Commanding. Pagz' Tzvmzly-x1',v . I