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

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Fort Eustis- O-D -Fort Eustis if filil'ISllAM ll. Pole Civilian Aide for the 'l'hird Corps Area The Corps Area prints an information circular giving in detail the requirements the camps and where they are to be held. The WVar Department supplies general eircul and application blanks. The Corps Area is divided into Procurement Districts and through them the literature is distributed. lfiach county has its quota but due transportation cost and failure of some counties to fill their quotas it has not been necessary to hold strictly to them. It is not difficult fill the camps but it is a big task to obtain this distribution according to population and to handle thousands of applications. lflach application must be Hlled out com- pletely and submitted to the local represe ative or sent directly to the CMTC Officer, 3rd Corps Area, at Baltimore, where all them eventually land. Candidates who tended camp the previous year are not required to take a new physical examination each year Page Twrnty-right CTVITC PROCUREMENT MAJOR SAMUEL T. STEWART It is believed that all CMTC candidates will be interested in a look behind the scenes, to know something of the methods used in enrolling the young men who enter the camps of thc Third Corps Area each year. An eiiort has been made to have a represent- ative in each community who can furnish information and application blanks to eligible young men. These men are known as the County Chairmen and County Committeemen of the Military Training Camps Association. All Reserve Officers are sent application blanks, and all oliicers of the Regular Army on duty as Professors of Military Science and Tactics at schools and colleges and all oiiicers on duty with the National Guard and Organ- ized Reserves are supplied with information regarding the camps. for ars to to Ht- of Llt- 4 CovlNc:1'oN K. Al.l.1cN Civilian Aide for the State of Maryland .v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v. . .vm . .v.v.v.v. . .v. . v my VN, ,,,,,,, 7, v , ,, , , ,,y,,y,,,, 0

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'ig xx x ' . Fort Eustis- O-D -Fort Eustis FROM THE CORPS AREA COMMANDER Once more and in increasing numbers, you young men of the country have accepted the opportunity offered by the Citizens' Military Training Camps to prepare your- selves for Citizenship. You have gained in health and strength. You have gained in self- respect, in team work, in the knowledge of our patriotic shrines, and in your ability to fulfill the obligations of citizenship in time of emergency. , Many of you have been to new camps, whose advantages have not heretofore been known to CMTC candidates. Tell your friends about them and be ready to make early application next year for, as you know, many were disap- pointed this year. I hope that where any numbers of you live in the same vicinity you will keep up through the winter the comradeship developed during the summer. You have learned to obey those who have the proper authority to issue orders and I trust you will by your actions as civil- I Y x-, ff W 1 lsAAc C. -I1zNKs' Crflnlwl, Inf-CSC Chief of Staff SAMUEL T. STIZWART Major, CAC-DOL i Corps Area CMTC Officer ians demonstrate that this has become a flxed trait and show your friends and neigh- bors that you realize that this is a part of good citizenship. But more than this, I hope you have learned that you yourselves must pick and choose tl1e right thing to do and then do it. Theyouth of today has increasing liberty and opportunity. See to it that you use them wiselyg prove to yourselves and your parents that not only can you obey orders given by others, but that you can be trusted to give orders to yourselves,-that you do not need to be bound by many laws and regulations but will do the right thing because you know it is right. Demonstrate to all about you that when there is another emergency you are the man that can and will meet it. May your recollections of the camps be pleasant and carry with them some inspiration to help and guide you in your future as Ameri- can Citizens. DoUcLAs MACARTHUR Major General, U. S. Army Commanding Page Twrnty-.rrwn . WN. .v . v . v.v.v.v.v-VN. . .v. . N. V v.v.v.v. -V-v.1.vNN.v.v.1.1uYN-v.v.v.1NN.v-V.v.v n

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if they certify that they are in good physical shape. Fort Eustis- O-D -Fort Eustis f E, f liach item on the blank is important and each blank is examined to make sure that the candidate is old enough and not too oldg what previous training he has had, so as to put him in the right course, whether he now belongs to the National Guard, so that his application may have the approval of his superior officersg whether he can pass the physical examination at camp, and whether he is an American citizen. A man who has taken the Basic Course can progress to the Red in any of the other branches. A Red or WVhite, to change branches, must repeat the course in the new branch. Between January 15th and February ISI, each year, all men who attended camp the previous year are sent application blanks which give them priority. To be sure that they get the course and camp desired they TVILLIAM GREEN Civilian Aide for the District ofC,olun1b1a . -H .,...,.,,,. . . :.- r V- -::Ms.?:. -f-.- t--2 .- - H- . sas: 1 vs.: t fx : ,A as ,fs ..7,,,. :gps . at-:,!.1rg:, X '-.gg yi.3Q4,Lqgy,g ,.z:g,1,-1: . - -3. -.3 gap:-zur: T . - . .wh 'K 5 ,H .vwj g,,:::i?lA,3, x.,:rs:..,. . . ,XCR - -- A ' ...,. If-sJi'f1x:m.fv. '1 '? :Wit , i Clcouci-1 XVIIARTON lhcifiucu Civilian Aide for the State of Pennsylvania should till these out and return them at once. This is particularly true in the case of those going to camp as VVhites or Blues. There have been very few counties which have not over-subscribed their quotas in 1927. I hope young men appreciate the time and effort put forth by many older friends to bring the camps to attention, and value the services of the doctors who make the examinations and administer the innoculations. In nearly all of the larger towns and cities there have been organized CMTC Posts in order to continue the comradeship or instruc- tion of the camps. These Posts are in touch with m.embers of the MTCA and are given early information regarding camps. lf there is none in a neighborhood, young men should consult the County Chairman and be on the outlook for next yearis letter with its applica- tion blank. If they have any chums who want to go, tell them that the early bird gets what he wants to eat. 'fLet's Gow. Pug: Trvauly-nine vvv vv YVVYVV V ' vvvvvvvvvvvwvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv --tuners n-YV .--..v-v.--v--H ' HW'- ' .......... .................. v