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

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SEVEN YEARS OF TI-IE CMTC 'H ll ff greater number of men in training and in part to the need both of saving transportation charges and of making the camps more acces- sible to the visits of parents and friends and thus closer to the life of the communities from which young men enroll. Camp locations vary from the seashore and mountains of the At- lantic and Paciiic Coasts to the lakes and prairies of the Middle VVest. All of them are fortunate in an environment alike of natural beauty and of historic interest. Some are still in cantonments dating from the Wtvrltl War, but most of thern in permanent army posts and stations. No matter what the location, there is everywhere the same provision of comfortable quarters, excellent mess, expert training under se- lected officers, with trans- portation, u n i form s, equipment, medical care and all other necessary expenses supplied and covered by the W'ar De- partment for the train- ing month. 1 x 1 MUSIC BY THE BAND gives life and spirit to the marches and parades. l'agr Sr'WIIlr'1'rL V V V V V V V V v V V V VV I 1 V V V V V V V V V v V V I V V V V VVN-'Java'-V-Vi!-1.VN-VN-V.V.V.V.V-V-V.V.u

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SEVEN YEARS OF THE CMTC f G f The daily program has been successfully evolved in these seven years to meet the purpose of the camps and the capacity of the men enrolled. These are for the larger part in the first year, or Basic Course, Where the instruction is limited to the Infantry. An increasing percentage each year is returning for the succeeding courses, the Red, the White and the Blue, in the first of which the young men may continue the Infantry work or elect to enter and thereafter remain in the Cavalry or Artillery fField or Coastl. sf ff In some camps there is instruction by the Signal Corps and it is likely that presently there may be elementary teaching in at least the theoretical bases of Aviation. Enrollment in the CMTC does not carry any military obligation, but the best graduates are reckoned eligible to be examined for commissions in the Organized Reserves, some compete for appointment to the United States Military Academy and many enlist later in the National Guard. All camps are under a military discipline, considerate but effective, which has its outcome in a sense of law and order and a prompt obedience to recognized authority. General Pershing has noted also that the men grow more aggressive, more confident, they get the spirit of leadership and initiative and in every way become better able to meet the problems of everyday life. H Character building is thus a definite contribution of camp training. It is coupled with a better feeling of citizenship, which emerges not so much out of the few hours given to teaching the basic facts and principles of life in our democracy as out of the entire life of the A GREEK STATUE OF TODAY TO THE VICTORS are offered rewards in many kinds of military and athletic contests. SOMETHING NEW MARKS EVERY DAY AT CAMP Page Nim-m-11 ........ . ................- ........ .......,v.v.v.v.v.v.v. l