Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-06-05
SECOND SERIES Of
OFFICERS TRAINING
CAMPS IS PROVIDED
Preference in New Camps
Which Will Open in the Fall
Will Be Given to Men of Ma
ture Ages

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WASHINGTON, June "A second Sc
ries OF officers training camps will be
held between August % and November
rs in eight locations. to develop Of
ficers for the second increment of 500
600 men to be called into service fol-
the national army, Adjutant General
Mccain announced today. In general
qualifications for admission TO the camps
will be the same as for the first series
but strong effort will be made TO obtain
men above thirty-one years of age. and
the number admitted to training will
be smaller than in the present camps
Applications must be sent to the COM
handing generals of the department in
which the applicant lives, between June
Is and July 10. Citizens between the
ages of twenty years and nine months
and forty-four years are eligible.
Some of the present sixteen officers
training camps will be abandoned in the
second series, and all selected for the
second training courses are located In
the southern part of the country, where
the weather will be good through the
fall. The camp sites chosen and the
areas from which applicants will be as
signed, are as follows:
Fort Myer, Va, Vermont Me. New
Hampshire. Massachusetts, Rhode Is
land, Connecticut, New Jersey. Della
ware, Maryland. Virginia and the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Fort Mcpherson Ga, New York City
and contiguous territory included in con-
gressional districts one to twenty-siN
inclusive; Alabama, Georgia and Flor
ida.
Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. the greater part
of New York state, including con-
gressional districts 81 to AZ; the north
II -I,,,, 10 incl n
gressional districts 10. IL, IA, Is. Is, Fl,
% and %: Tennessee, North Carolina
and South Carolina.
Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind, the
southern part of Pennsylvania, fnclud-
ing part of congressional district 2S;
Ohio. West Virginia, Indiana and Ken
lucky.
Fort Logan H. Roots, Ark, cor other
place to be designated" Wisconsin.
Michigan, Mississippi, Louisiana and
Arkansas.
Fort Leon Springs, Texas. Illinois,
Texas. Arizona, New Mexico and Okla
homa.
Fort Riley, Kanas, Minnesota, North
Dakota. South Dakota, Nebraska Iowa.
Kansas. Missouri and Colorado.
The Preside. San Francisco. Cal,
Utah. Wyoming, Montana, Idaho. Ne
vada. Oregon. Washington and Cali
fornia.
The announcement of the camps
says:
'The second series of officers train
ing camps will be held with the deh-
mite mission of producing a body or
line officers. capable of filling all places
in the grades above lieutenant, and
many of the places I'm the lieutenant
grades of the second 100000 troops.
THE minimum age limit for all is
20 years and nine months. However,
In order to attain the experienced class
of men desired. preference Will be CIV
en- to men over thirty-one years OF age
1t will be difficult for men under that
age to qualify except In rare instances
where the applicant has pre-emlnent
or unusual military expe-
Renee Men certified as acceptable for
the first series of camps, which are now
in operation. must renew their appllca-
lions If they were not directed TO at
tend the first series of camps.
Applications must be made between
June Is and July 10 All applications
received after July Is will be returned.
The application must be accompanied
with the names of three responsible
citizens who know the APPLICANT