US Army Training Center - Yearbook (Fort Eustis, VA)

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Fort Eustis- O-D -Fort Eustis a I it F ?, ,ef ff 1 FROM THE POST COMMANDER To THE CMTC EIEN or 1926: Although I have been in command at Fort Eustis only during the last week of the Citizens' Military Training Camp, I have been on the post and have been keenly inter- ested in your work during the entire period of the camp, and therefore feel that I am qualified to speak concerning the results accomplished. This is the second year that I have had the pleasure of observing the conduct of a Citizens' Military Training Camp and I can assure you that it is a very inspiring sight to see such a number of young men showing a desire to improve themselves and to be- come better citizens. Every effort has been made this year by all concerned at this post to make this camp the best, and largely through your efforts and support the results have been most gratifying to me and to all the other Officers- connected with the camp. I wish to congratulate you upon the excellent showing that you have made and to say again that what has been accomplished is due largely to your line spirit of cooperation. I trust that each and every one of you is leaving camp with a feeling that you have im- proved yourself, that you have enjoyed yourself, that you are a better citizen, and that you would like to come again. It has been a pleasure to have had you with us, and I hope to see many of you back next year. The best that I can wish for each of you is that, in any future undertaking, you will carry with you the same spirit of loyal cooperation that you have shown here. - Jos. P. TRACY Colonel, 527Zd CA Commanding AN APPRECIATION Duncan K. Nlajor, Jr. assumed command of the 34th Infantry in 1924 at Camp Meade, Maryland, at a time when many of us were literally taking our first steps in a military career. As Basic and Red Course students we were too bewildered, perhaps, by the exacting requirements of our new learning to value properly the man sent to train us. It was through his insistence and his assumption of all responsibility that the first infantry CNITC in Virginia was held at Fort Eustis, and when the 1925 camp went down in W'ar Department records as excelled by none, we knew that the qualities of a real leader were his. The camp of 1926, even more successful than that of the previous year, has served to increase our admiration for this painstaking administrator and zealous soldier. I-Ie was a sincere critic of our training, but did not hold himself aloof from our play. I-Iis is a personality that appeals to everyone who comes in contact with him, to know him is to love him. I-Iis friendship bridged the gulf between a Basic trainee and the Camp Commander, every young man who leaves this camp will be proud to say, I am one of Colonel IVIajor,s menn. Although a strict disciplinarian, he is just, for he treats all equally and consider- ately regardless of rank, and he is consistent, for he exacts duty from himself as well as from those about him. It is with sadness and deep regret that we must bid him farewell, but wherever he may go, adding fresh laurels to those already earned by a conscientious attention to duty, he carries with him the best wishes and esteem of his comrades, the citizen soldiers of the Third Corps Area. 1' A- Page T11 iffy-flm'f 1 1 -11 .YNNQYAYQVAY 1 u 1 nfs' A'n'Hu'HnYAYlVn'AY4'NnY A -Vn'a'nYn':'n'n'lW7A

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Fort Eustis- 'O-D -Fort Eustis f O-D EDITGRIAL BOARD XVILLIS JORDAN PLUMMER First Lieutenant, 318th Infantry, Officer-in-Charge L EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: John E. Hibline, Louis D. Clark, Lester Seibert, Dawson R. Christie, Connie G. Quesenberry, A. G. Schwarzman, 'William P. Jeffreys, John H. Quick. COMPANY EDITORIAL BOARDS: Co. UA -John E. Hibline, Ernest H. Aschenbach, VVilliam P. Chaflinch, Jr., Morris H. Fine, Richard E. Kinney, Richard L. Kostka, Maurice T. Miles, William M. Randol, Milbourne C. Reed, Milton H. Rodman. Co. HB -Louis D. Clark, WVesley A. Ashley, C. L. Browne, Francis D. Cecil, Harry R. Hall, Edward T. Johnson, Russell B. Stevenson, VValter G. Wilmer, Richard,Q. Yardley. Co. MCH- Lester Seibert, James R. Evans, William H. Flaharty, Robert W. Gabriel, Thomas S. Houser, Carl F. Long, John H. Smith, George WV. Swartz, LeRoy C. Rouzer. Co. UD - Dawson R. Christie, Morton Silverberg, Samuel G. Nordlinger, lVilliam A. Nichols, Paul Coon, Carlyle H. Mitchell, Peter E. Cannon, Richard H. Roberts, Merlin E. Wilt, Albert Fratis. Co. E -Connie G. Quesenberry, Richard Q. Buchanan, Herman H. Godsey, James H. Webster, Carl Crumley, Ewell G. Webb, Clyde M. Hartsock. Co. F -A. G. Schwarzman, VVilliam VV. Glass, Jr., Wfithers I. Bagwell, Charles A. Aaron, Paul B. Henderson, Howard A. Kirk, Robert C. Gallager, Lindsay S. Ghiselin. Co. G - William P. Jeifreys, Troy B. Baum, Lawrence E. Keller, Boyd H. Payne, Gerhard C. Hendricksen, W. E. Darden, Taylor L. Palmer, Jeffrey VV. James, Otis A. Brock, John B. Chesson, Cedric I. White. Co. HH-John H. Quick, Edward F. Butler, Richard A. Rollins, James N. Rogers, lVilliam C. Jester, Edward B. Smoot. Page Thirty-fow' - V