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

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EIGHT YEARS OF THE CMTC f r EIGHT YEARS - OF THE CMTC The Citizens' Military Training Camps have in eight years enrolled 234658, applications exceeded this number by 137,935g a total of 372,293 young men have sought the opportunity of voluntary training. In recent years from 20,000 to 30,000 have been annually denied this privilege for lack of space and this number would have been far exceeded except that the period for enrollment was closed weeks, and often months, before the opening of the camps. A review of these eight years shows striking progress. The total of training centers has increased from ten to fifty and the number of men has grown from 10,299 in 1921 to 35,591 in 1928. More significant development is indicated by the following facts, Ist, there is a consistently higher average of intelligence and purpose in the young men who enroll, 2nd, an increasing percentage of candidates return for a second, third or fourth year of training, 3rd, applications are tiled earlier each year, 4th, the conditions of vaccination and in- A HEARTY GREETING oculation are more promptly and fully met, and 5th, there is from the Camp Commander a very marked reduction in the number who being accepted to the first arrival. fail for any reason to report at camp. Through these years the plan of training has been constantly revised and improved by the VVar Department: experience has given Army officers more sympathy and knowledge in discharging the new duties which devolved upon them. All visitors to the summer camps of 1928 were impressed with the excellence of man- agement but few imagined the diHieulties which have been surmounted since their es- tablishment in 1921. At that time no one could forecast their probable future. True, there was the precedent of the early students' camps, as at Gettysburg in 1913, and of the business and professional men's camps, as at Plattsburg in 1915, but these were, after all, different in character from those proposed in the National Defense Act of 1920. At Gettysburg and Plattsburg the appeal was to a comparatively small number, who were able and willing to pay their own expenses and in 1915 and 1916 a dozen camps of this . 1 v , .L l ir. THE INCOMIN G HORDE of today becomes the citizen army of tomorrow. Pagzr N i ne I