ROTC Training Center - Sand Yearbook (Camp Custer, MI)

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This little reminder of our days at Camp Custer has been a source of worry, fun, desperation and interest to those who have devoted their time and capabilities fsuch as they werej towards producing it. XVe wish to slightly revise the well-known remark of Abraham Lincoln about fooling the people, and take this op- portunity lo say that you can please part of your bunkies all of the time, and all of your bunkies part of the time, but you can- NOT please all of your bunkies all of the time. XVe have endeavored to make this book as representative of the R. O. T. C. as possible. In the limited time allotted to the production of it, we have ever been open to suggestions, and have openly asked for contributions. VVe have used practically every- thing that was offered in response to this appeal and wish to thank contributors for their endeavors. NVQ point with pride to the fact that this souvenir is almost entirely a product of home talent. The cover by Bingmann, Co. 6, and cartoons by jaskalek and Jones, sixth and hfth C0111- pany, respectively. livery page represents the effusions of our members in art. prose and poetry. XVC also take this opportunity to thank the Battle Creek and Kalamazoo merchants who have so generously subscribed for advertising space and whose support made this book a possibility. You may take this article as a card of thanks, an apology, or as you please, hut we only ask that our work on this little souvenir be accepted in the same spirit as it is given. Tllli linrroics. 11

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The Reserve Ofiicer's Training Corps NYhen the great XVorld XYar came as an avalanche, few people thought the United States would he endangered, hut hy degrees affairs so developed that it was soon clear to all that we could not possihly keep out and keep our un- hlemished record clean. When the terrihle arm of war finally did reach out and envelop us in its powerful and ghastly grasp, we were all ready and willing to do our utmost towards loosening its clutches. X'Vithin a remarkahly short time Uncle Sam had millions of men enlisted in his service who would soon he capalmle of competing with the almost irresistihle forces of the Ilun. The vast territory of the United States was well ahle to furnish men hy the millions, hut without capahle leaders to officer these men in the discipline and training of the soldier, and ahove all to lead them over the top through No Man's l.and they were practically useless, and it is a well-known fact to every one now that it was just here where we encountered the first and really only harassing oh- stacle. Other difficulties could he overcome with money and lahor, hut this one required time, the one asset in which we were found sadly deficient. This war has demtmnstrated-what has not heretofore heen generally under- stood-that only a mentally developed and disciplined man is capahle of heing a good officer. 'l'he shortest way to this training and discipline is, in the great majority of instances, through a college education. lixceptional men may in exceptional cases arrive at the same result through self-education and expe- rience, hut the standard should he a college education or the demonstrated equivalent. The initial education of the officer, like the initial education of any other professional man, should he primarily designed to open the mind to the stored up thought and experience of the world and to train the mind to think quickly, logically and independently. Tn addition to this initial education, every professional man must have a thorough schooling in the technique of his chosen calling. liven with all this, a high degree of proficiency can he attained only hy practice, original research and constant study. ln the creation of an effective hody of officers-regular or reserve--we have to deal really with four prohlems: first, the initial general education of the man: second, his initial military education and training, third, how to eliminate those who after a trial prove incompetent, and, fourth, how to so develop the residuum that the highest standard of military leadership is acquired and maintained. XVhen war was upon us. Officers' Training Schools were immediately opened and every man who could possihly develop into an ofiicer was encouraged to enter one of these schools. College and university men especially were solicited and it was later found that it was just these men who proved the greatest suc- cess. .Xn intensive training was given these men for about six months, and they were then commissioned 2nd lieutenants, after which a new quota took their places. 13