Washington High School Cadets - Adjutant Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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1 3 ' Purpose of the Cadet Corps By Major Raymond G. Payne, U. S. A. HE military training of the Cadet Corps is of outstanding value in the scholastic education of high school boys. It gives a boy his first real experience as a member of a highly organized activity with certain definite and exacting duties to learn and to perform with absolute accuracy, if his company is to function as a smoothly running organization. He soon realizes that he has an important part that can readily affect the proficiency cf the whole, that he is responsible for so performing his duty as not to be a drag on the other cadets. All normal boys will put forth every effort to meet a responsibility that affects other boys. Later, yearned promotions give each cadet various executive ofiices of increasing responsi- bility until finally he is at the head of one of the major divisions, platoon, company, battal- ion, regiment, or brigade, and responsible for its training. This experience teaches him the value of advancement, and stimulates his ambition to become a real factor and not a pawn in the game of life. It prepares him to fit into the general scheme of things in our highly organized modern civilization. To earn these promotions, cadets must study and make good marks, since officers and non- commissioned officers are selected in accordance with their relative standing as determined by their military ratings. In calculating a cadet's l35l military rating the marks made in the scholastic studies count 601: and the military mark 4096. Thus, if a cadet wishes to advance in the Cadet Corps, and every normal boy does wish to ad- vance, he must make himself a good student to hold the higher offices. Just note the cadets tak- ing their books home from school, they all do. The Cadet Corps, therefore, furnishes an ad- ditional incentive for study that makes it a most important factor in the education of our high school boys. It is very interesting to see the extent of the infiuence of the Cadet Corps on the school work and the figures furnished by two of the high schools are quite illuminating. In one high school 306 boys were cadets and 643 were not. Twenty-three cadets were honor students, or 1 in 13. Of the other boys, 22 were honor students, or l in 29. In the other high school, 335 boys were ca- dets and 462 were not. Twenty-three were honor students, or l in l4. Of the other boys, 7 were honor students, or l in 67. It does not just happen that the Cadet Corps furnishes far more than its numerical pro- portion of honor students. This remarkable record is the direct result of the training and the discipline received by cadets and is one of the achievements that makes the Cadet Corps so well Worth while.

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MAJOR RAYMOND G. PAYNE, U. S. A. Assistant Professor of Nlilitary Science and Tactics Kc W

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COLONEL DANIEL C, POLLOCK, H. S. C Brigade Commander