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

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yifffw-K7 1317 932251 Allllllllllll LAALLAAIIAAAA all N .QVTI ALLEGIANCE DAY, JULY 12, 1926 Without a doubt the most important ceremony in which a student at a Citizens' Military Training Camp takes part is the Gath of Allegiance. The Oath is given to the students of each camp at the beginning of their thirty days, period of training. This ceremony of enrollment took place at Fort Eustis at the post stadium on the afternoon of July 12, this year. The boxes and grandstand were filled with an interesting and distinguished audience, among which were many parents and friends of the candidates themselves. The boxes were occupied by town and county officials from the neighboring communities and by officers of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps from posts near Fort Eustis. In the speaker's box were Colonel George H. McManus, Post Commander, Colonel Duncan K. Major, Jr., command- ing the Citizens' Military Training Camp, Colonel Charles E. Lester of the Reserve Ohficers' Association, Com- mander Miles, of the Yorktown Navy Mine Depot, the Honorable Schuyler Otis Bland, member of Congress from the First Virginia District, and Chaplain Gliver F. Crawford, 395th Infantry. Chaplain Crawford delivered an inspiring invocation in which he sought the blessing of Providence on the Nation and the youth before him. After several selections by the massed bands of the 34th Infantry and the 52nd Coast Artillery, Colonel McManus made an address of welcome in which he expressed the hope that the young men would be happy and contented and would profit by their instruction during the month of training. He then intro- duced the Honorable Mr. Bland who reminded the young men before him that they stood on historic soil and it was their privilege and duty to carry on the work so well begun by the forefathers of the nation. After other selections by the regimental bands, Colonel Major administered the Gath of Good Citizenship to the citizen soldiers and the Fort Eustis CMTC of 1926 was formally begun. 6 Q a n I