Jefferson Barracks Citizens Military Camps - Jeffersonian Yearbook (Lemay, MO)

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JEFFERSONIAN Army and the Navy, including the vn- rollment in Chicago alone of over 7,000 skilled mechanics for ordnance regiments within three weeks. Similiar help was given to the Aviation Section. Balloon Service, Tank Corps, Signal Corps and Xfotor Transport Corps and the As- sociation received formal thanks from the Secretary of Xiiar, from high officers of the Staff and from Department and Camp Commanders throughout the country. ln the summer of Ifjlo the Associa- tion was called upon by the Har Depart- ment to perform even more important and responsible work. Xew regulations covering the granting to civilians of com- missions in the Army, were issued for thirteen branches of the General Staff. Instead of applying as formerly direct to each separate branch the following plan was adopted: Procedure in applying for a commission will be as follows: The civilian desiring to offer his services will watch the standard announcement of needs for officers published periodically in the news- papers. These announce- ments will be issued from the Wiashington headquarters of the recruiting subsection, and will be based on full de- scriptions of each need-type of man wanted and duty to be performed-furnished by the various branches of the army recruiting officers. As all publicity an officer needs will come from one source, there will be no contradiction, conflict, or competition on calls for menf' 'Wiihen announcement is made of a need for which the civilian considers himself in every way qualified, he will communicate with the nearest oH:1ce of the Kfilitary Training Camps Association and there obtain complete information on how to apply. If found qualified he will fum rzurfzfll

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---1JEFFERSONIAN -- .t.ts S-900,000 lit itil: Congress allowed lrtI,liO0,000, with permission to use uniforms 'toni the reserve stotilt tilIltt'QuitI'l'C1t112lS'tC1iS Department, which made possible the training Liooo men ltor purposes of economy in transportation and with the thought of utiliz- imr -petiial lacilities at certain camps and posts in the training of men for ditlerent branches ol the Service. tweiity-tive points were designated for the summer training of 1922, with tit tr-tiiiiate ot 3.000 men in each corps area. The spirit of the training camp movement is represented by young men who as early .if tht- summer of lolpg gathered at Gettysburg and the Presidio at Klonterey. These wtirt- student camps: the men came from various universities, filled with the thought and tbtiliiig fit' devotion to country and preparation for service illustrated in the saying of Theo- .lor-: Roosevelt: The military tent, where boys sleep side by side, will rank next to the public school among the great agents of democracy. llitv gathered on the initiative of Xlajor General Leonard Vlioocl, then Chief of Staff, tu tw 1-operation with a number of university presidents. In IQI4. camps were held at Ashe- ville. llurlington, Monterey and Ludington. In the following year the movement was extended. The tirst business men's camp was held at Plattsburg, while Ludington, Fort Slitgiidan. San Ifraneisco and American Lake were other centers of training with a total t-iirollment' of 3583. The success of these camps was so great that I6,000 men came t0- frtgilter largely at their own expense in IQIfi at Plattsburg, Ft. Oglethorpe, Fort Sam Hous- ton. lfort Douglas. Monterey and American Lake. The Xlilitary Training Camps Association was formed by the graduates of these early camps. lt was instrumental in securing from Congress the appropriation for the proposed Plattsburg camps of 14917. Co- operat ingw ith the llar Department it car- aaaaaa tied on a v igorousrecruitingcampaign. It had enrolled over 50,000 candidates for the camps wlien llar was declared in April. The Xe-teiatioti suggested to the Secre- tary of lliartliat the proposed civilian caiiiris be cont erted intoflnficers' training tptiitp-. This suggestion was adopted .tiitl the appropriation secured lor the eii than canips and the recruiting ieaiiivatioii built up by the ,Xssociation -tt-re utilizt-d by the ll:-tr Department lt i tht l'irft and Ht-cftiitl Ullweers' Train- : tltiiip- itil Iljlf. It is a signilicant 1 tlstt vtittttj., ia rtwitt ol the graduates 1 We ililttllslttili'-IKUITIVS,t1L1l1lllTtjtlT4JI' - t 1 ft- t xi t-tl tttiitiitisz-ioiis in the liftlit if ft' l i::?t fatjites. lit ,ttf -.kitifi ' ffl the ,'Xr.sttelltli1iI'1 it -turf were appointed K V to lulpttlalil fieiieral. t T 1 4 - lhtctrtl basis as an ' , wi' til Ill llitf PVMN- X-lh.-' 'lil 1' Mite tlfitit' it Hifi Xi 1' lf-ggititl -tl' t i ' tlitt llitt S-prvtee '.ti.f'A t 1 it tit ttttttilti lt-1 X t l.ttt'J' litf' Iitf- 'l'l'lli,l'i 'il Tllllllll' Wat. l.XssIfl',Ii 1' Mt .'t.tt'ltt X tl 'tlit' fifty, H. ft. li, of ,lfnlv

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JEFFERSONIAN be given a standard applica- tion for commission in the lfnited States Army, which he will need to till out care- fully and return to the Xlili- tary Training Camps As- sociation office. Later he will be interviewed and exam- ined. In case the require- ment which attracted him has already been filled or his qualifications make him more suitable for some other service his application may be transferred or held, proper- ly classihed and available for use, in a deferred tile. A civilian who considers him- self qualified for service as a commissioned oflicer in any branch of the army, may, if he desires, make application through the nearest Xlilitary Training Camps Association office in advance of any def- inite statement of a need for men with his particular qualificationsfl ln no case, under the new procedure, is it desirable to travel or write to Wlashingtong since all recruiting for civil- ians to be commissioned in the specified staff corps will be managed bv a district headquarters of the recruiting subsection and the ofhces of the Rlilitarv Training Camps Association. 1 ri ii to the adoption of these reg- u itii n great confusion existed in the ar li iitnient owing to the duplica- ion ol ipplicaiits, the fact that the v :riot oiaiiclics of the Service had dif- ft iii l rms iff application blanks and tht ti mi ctition was keen between the clllfilln l iiicilief: iff the Service to secure lit lv I i ailahlf- officer material. Xlzinv ip ili inf failing twl!t'5i1'fI'tii11Xkzlsliiltg- it ii iii inert- oirlj to nnd that their ipp'i t i iiis were inislaitl or pigeon-holed. ll it 1 llqiiifin of :ill pending applica- tion tit itloptiiig of qi unifoiin applica- i t M- il, and the utilization of the fir llf