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

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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

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f SEVEN YEARS OF THE CMTC X f , f opening to the closing day of the month 323 in training. i 533 camp from reveille to taps and from the J is if Iii' Physical health and strength are at the same time a condition of admission to the camps and a prime consideration in the daily schedules. liach candidate is subjected to a careful medical examin- ation at the time he applies and again - when he reports for training. Special exercises are prescribed in case of need and at the close of camp there is another physical examination which registers his bodily growth and often carries sug- gestions to parents for their future guidance. Thus the doctrine of H keeping fit is carried to hundreds of thousands of American homes and camp ratings become the standard measurements of community well-being. The social and religious phases of the Citizens' Camps have been developed also with the utmost care. Army Chaplains are the first to welcome the incoming candidates and opportunity is afforded not only for worship adapted 'Von R. Wvmes to the different faiths, but also for a 5f'vff'ffIfyJl7l'Cfl personal contact, which is often more THEY'RE OFF --True sportsmanship is the spirit in each CMTC. IIIIKI' T?UI'Hfjl .1.viv.v.v.v.V.vuVJNJ.1N.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.1-v.v.v.v-W' I ' I.v.v.VN-IN.VNNNNNN.1.VNN.v.vNN.VNNN-Vasu Q I