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

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SEVEN YEARS OF THE CMTC A TYPICAL HOSTESS HOUSE--Here is the atmosphere of home! Women, trained for service, play the part of mothers, supervising and guiding both rest and recreation. x FOR GOD AND COUNTRY -Full attendance at church services and the constant influence of Army Chaplains show stress on religious life and quick response by the men of the CMTC. Pagt' Twflw U

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lf SEVEN YEARS OF Til-IE CMTC Hines and the present Chief of Stalin, Major f X, la if i General Charles P. Sum- mcrall. The Secretary of War, the Hon. Dwight F. Davis, has been as keenly interested in plans for voluntary military training as was his pre- decessor. The Wliitc House, no less than the War Department, has always been cordial to the development of the camps. Mr. Harding expressed his hope for at least 1oo,ooo young men each year in the camps and Mr. Coolidge speaks of them as essent- ially schools in citizen- ship which should be more largely attended each year. The Citizens' Mili- tary Training Camps have uniformly received favorable consideration by the Congress of the United States, which year by year has granted larger funds for their maintenance. The only difficulty has appeared in the estimate by the p House and the Senate of popular demand for this training. A con- Dwmm' l . Davis Thr Sfrrflary af llfar 1 UBOOTS AND SADDLES -Cavalry is always a populanbranch of service at the training centers. Iillgl' lfffw' ll . . . . - - - - ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' . . . . . .v.v.v.v.vw.v.v.v.v.vv- .vvv. vv.v.v.v

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xr Q ,r stantly increasing appro- -- priation for this purpose has been insullicient each year to provide room for all the young men who desired to enroll. Camp capacity has grown from I0,000 in IQZI to 36,000 in 1927, hut even in this last year there were 20,000 more applications than places. This growth has come solely through greater appreciation lay young men and by their parents of the oppor- tunity that is offered. lt is certain that, if Congress will provide the necessary funds, young men will lill the camps up to the maximum that can he trained hy the oflicers and l10ll-COIll- missioned oiiicers of the Regular Army, with such help as the Organized Reserves can give. ' Some theories of social, economic and political organization have won public support in the United States only through intensive pro- paganda. This is not at all true of voluntary SEVEN YEARS OF THE CMTC training or of the camps wlnch incorporate this CHAN N I, qlmm,RAH idea. 'I he. I-louse of Atldjnr C,-,,,-,-,,1, U, 3, ,1,,,,5. Representatives and the The Chit-l ol Stall' Senate authorized them il FIELD ARTILLERY shares with Infantry and Cavalry the t th ' 1 d ' ' - in Coast Artillery is given on the Atlantic and the Pacific andptliiigrgiilfaof Meeiilcg? camps' while trammg Pagr TlIl.ff1'1'll n A n 1Y.'n'nYu'nv-Y vnvn' Y Y Y I -V-'If'-V-V-'-V-V-'M' ' ' ' ' ' ' r.v.v.v.v.v-vw.v.vmv.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.