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

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THE JEFFERSONIAQN f 5, .s 2, Af E, W GREETINGS TO TRAINEES To all Trainees of the Regular Army, National Guard, Organized Reserve, RGTC, and CMTC, Greetings! ' The National Defense Act of 1920 prescribes the military policy of this country. It places the responsibility for national defense upon a small Regular Army and National Guard as the first line of defense and upon the great citizen army, the Organized Reserves, as the main line of defense. The RCTC and CMTC are training camps for personnel to be de- veloped for important assignments with the Organized Reserves. Now that the trained veterans of the World War are fast melting away, the summer training camps enter upon a role of growing importance. Reserve Oflicers come to 'camp each summer, or as often as ap- propriations permit, to review old and take new courses. The National Guard attends its annual encampment as a climax to a year of hard work. V Regular Army personnel, by its annual intensive training course ending in tactical inspections, prepares itself for its professional mission of impartinginstruction in the latest developments in the art of war. Each of you by your presence in camp exhibits an intelligent and practical patriotismg ' I ' , ,V May you make the best of your opportunities. Upon returning to your homes with an improved sense of your responsibilities ascitizens, may you spread to your neighbors the germ of patriotic duty-or as I see it, of patriotic privilege-gained by attending Summer Training Camps. V WILLIAM S. GRAVES Maj'0r General, U. S. Army Corps Area Commander Page Twenty fezen V V V Y fsvsvsvavlvav Q C U

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Tn T THE IEFFERSONIAN ff g K is Q' Ji ROBERT E. XfVYLLIE Colonel, CAC-GS Chief of Staff imum of 6520 applications be secured in the CMTC PROCUREMENT In the Sixth Corps Area, the 1925 CMTC enrollment organization was again used for procurement for the 1926 CMT Camps with some changes in county chairmen, county committeemen, and medical examiners. Reorganization of the enrollment forces started about No- vember 20, 1925, and continued until March 15, 1926, on Which day the active procurement campaign in the Sixth Corps Area Was inaugurated. The enrollment forces in the Sixth Corps Area at the completion of the CMTC enrollment cam- paign consisted of 248 county chairmen, 2049 county, city, and Ward committee- men, and 1802 medical examiners. The total number of persons in the CNITC forces, exclusive of Regular Army per- sonnel, Was 4099. The War Department director for CMTC procurement required that a min- Sixth Corps Area, and all plans for enrollment were made to reach this objective. The procurement campaign was executed as planned and 6237 applications were received at Corps Area Head- quarters up to and including August 3, 1926, the date of the opening of the last camp in the Corps Area. As in past years, many organizations+social, com- mercial, and fraternal-gave their help to the Military Training Camps Association, which has been recog- nized by the Secretary of War as the primary civilian agency for this purpose. Publicity was carried on under the direction of the MTCA Civilian Aides to the Secretary of War, and the Divisional Chiefs of Staff. The Civilian Aides to the Secretary of War are: Noble Brandon Judah of Chicago for the Corps Area, George G. Seaman of Taylorville for 1Tlinois, Wheeler P. Bloodgood of Mil- waukee for Wisconsin, and Wade Millis of Detroit for Michigan. The Divisional Chiefs of Staff of the 1926 enrollment campaign Were: for the 85th Division, Page Twenty-eight DELBERT Ausmos Captain., CAC-DOL CNITC Officer aVaVs'aVnVo'u'aVnYoVuVA V Y V Y V V . Q 1 Q ' ' V v ' V v V ' '.'N.'.m'.' mm' ' I I . ,