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

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lt- JEFFERSONIAN 1,1131- r. Coroxiai, llt' li. Xlvialts Xlajor Fred L. Lemmon, lnfantry, has been Recruiting Adjutant for the 7th Corps Area. since November IO, IQZO, and in charge of the recruiting for the C. M. T. C. in IQZI and IQ22. He had earlier been Camp Re- cruiting Officer at Camp Funston, Kansas, and before that he had commanded hlotor Recruiting Parties and toured the Central Wvestern States in securing recruits for the Army. The military career of Xlajor Lemmon began in the National Guard of Ohio, and in the National Guard of Kansas with which he served as First Lieutenant, Captain and Kia-ior. During the World Har he was Klajor and later Lieut. Colonel of the I.1fOIl1 Infantry, 25th Division. On account of his great interest in young men and by reason of his experience as Recruiting Oflicer, he has achieved a re- markable success for the training camps held in the 7th Corps Area. I.ieut. Colonel llu li. Xlyt-rs. General Staff. has been Acting Chief of Statl of the 7th Corps .Xrea during the major part of the period in which candidates were selected for enrollment at the three Citizens' Klilitary Training Camps. lle entered the .Xriny from Tennessee and served in the Philippines as captain, Ist Tennessee lnfantrv. during the Spanish-American lliar and Philippine ln- surrection. He was appointed first lieutenant. lv. S. Cavalry, in IQOI and passed through the grades of Captain and Xlajor in that branch of the service. lle xvent overseas during the lliorld lliar as Acting Chief of Staff of the 83rd Division, serving subse- quently as Colonel, General Staff. with the 2nd Division as Operations Uflicer and Chief of Staff, in which latest position he continued until February 1. IQZI. when he was trans- ferred to the 7Tll Corps Area. 1 1 Xlvgoi: l'1+1,n I. liuuox Page Yiicwfzfgt' 1 l I

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JEFFERSONIAN -'ll Cilizezzs' llliliiary Training Camps lfon Yotfxti MEN or' 'rim SEVENTH CNORPS ,XREA The National Defense Act, approved June 4, IOZO, provides for the training ol' young men in the Cnited States during one month of each year, at camps located in each of the nine corps areas. The lirst training camps for citizens under this act were held during the summer of IQZI. l low ever, these were not the lirst camps of this character held in the United States, as the history of training camps goes back to those held at Platts- hurg, N. Y., which have become famous as HThe Plattsburg Camps. l,ast year two camps were held in the Seventh Corps Area and a total ol' more than IZCO young men were given thirty days' training at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and at Camp Pike, Arkansas. These were as many as could he trained in 1921 with the amount of money appropriated hy The Congress. This year a total of more than 2700 men are given training, during Xugust, at three camps in the Seventh Corps Area. These camps are located at Fort Snelling, Klinnesota, for young men from the area of the 88th Division, at Fort Des Kloines, lowa, for those residing within the territorial limits of the 89th Division, and at Jefferson Barracks, Xlissouri, lor those young men in the area ofthe IO2I1Cl Division. - If larger appropriations become available more men can of course he accommodated each year. While it is not expected that the one month of training will make a trained soldier, yet if continued through the three courses provided for in the three successive years, the total of three months training will he a delinite henelit to the young men, and to the Nation it they should ever he called upon to serve their country under arms in tinie ol' stress. V l hope that thc young men of the Seventh Corps Area will continue to axail themselves of the opportunity to receive this training provided at the expense ol' the Government, and that they will maintain at all seasons .t deep interest in things military in order better to prepare themselves to serve their tountry against a day of possible need. Fnaxcis sl. lit-gizxixx Xlajor General, C. S. Krniy. f'r1tf.f t!1f't'm 1

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