Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-12
EVERYBODY IN THE CAMP
/. KEPT BUSY ALL THE TIME
Intensive Training by Instructors
Every Day in All Branches of
Modern Warfare.

Everybody in camp is busy. Every
body is working as hard as he can all
day long and training, in one branch
or another, is progressing well. But the
work that is being done and has been
done is just beginning. What they
have been through is just an introduce
tion to what the officers and men are
to have before they are what may be
called trained and ready for the real
work.
This is the way the situation at Camp
Meade, as related to the soldiers in
training here. is summed up by off,
. GERS of the camp at the present time.
Training soldier has become a mat
ter of speciality schooling. The men
have to learn many things that a SOL
der Of even a few years ago had moth
ing to do with. With this training the
men become specialists themselves
They are trained by specialists, each of
whom knows his own line thoroughly.
Specialists in Camp.
Among the specialists at Camp
Meade. in addition to many among the
American troop commanders, are the
British and French officers. These men
stoned officers the mysteries of the
newer methods of trench fighting. After
these officers are taught the rules Of
the game" the enlisted men and nom
CONS will come in for their share.
1t will be like this" said one of the
officers yesterday THE men, after
they have perfected the work of SOL
diering, such as we all know IL, will
start day, for instance. under the
guidance of one of the specialists in
gymnastics. taking the setting-up ex-
ercises, say, for an hour Perhaps half
this will be long enough. Finishing
these they will be marched to another
point at a given time and there turned
over to another instructor, fresh and
ready for his days work. He will give
them two hours of the stiffest kind of
work at hand-grenade throwing
Bayonet Practice Thorough.
They will begin to feel the effects
of the work they have done by this
time. After the second teacher gets
through with them they will go to
another place. Here another teacher,
also fresh and fit, will take them in
hand for bayonet practice on both Of
Tense and defense. Now this is hard
work. Every one who has ever tried
It will admit this. and none of the
boys Will deny 1T after half hour
or so of it, They will be taught to
advance and charge with fixed bay
Onets. They will be taught to repel
a charge of the same kind, to eyade
the bayonets thrust at them and to
render their adversaries hors de COM
bat.
Possibly. by this time, it will be
time for lunch. They will get an hours
rest at noon. and when this time is
up-up and at it again.
Next, maybe, they will have a little
recreation in the form of gas defense
work, such as running about with gas
masks over their faces. This is al
ways interesting. If you don't believe
1t go over and ask any of those Of
thing of late You'll find that lot
of them who were-well, plump, well
say-are looking much more slender
and sylphiike than when they began.
No Chance to Rest.
REST after that? Not a chance.
They're just sgetting warmed up to
their work. They'll have another half
hour session with the calisthenics man
as a rest. He will loosen them all up
again, with some more exercises Then
they'll be all right for something else.
1t may be a little trench work, posi-
bly, some lessons in digging themselves
in, or some light and entertaining exer-
cises Of that kind. It will be some
thing anyway. and they will keep
going until shutdown with one thing
after another.
Remember, too. every time they
start some new kind of work they will
be handled by a man or men who do
nothing else, and who will be rested
and fresh, just waiting to take them
on and work them at highest speed and
pitch.
That's what training soldiers means
these days. Right now we are in war.
We cannot afford to take all the time
in the world to train our men, and in
stead they must be trained in the time
we have. And they will be-