The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-05-19
TRAINING AT
Preside
BEGINS
SCIENCE OF WARFARE is BE-
ING TAUGHT TO YOUTH
Full AMERICANS


sharp at 5:45 a. m. with reveille.
Twenty-Five hundred prospective
United States army officers will
spring from bunk and bed and with
in Is minutes, the call will sound
for breakfast and the three months
course of training begin.
College and professional men of
all grade of society and degrees OF
wealth were ready for the first
drill at 1880 o'clock, to be follow
ed throughout the morning by per-
iods of drill and instruction.
The Presidio, bounded on the west
by the mighty Pacific and on the
east by the grounds of the Panama
Pacific International Exposition was
alive today with color and activity.
Officers commands rang curt; the
officer rockies alert to obey or
ders strictly on the first day, sprang
into action and stood at attention
for the next command.
Spick and span in their unfamil-
lar uniforms the candidates present.
ed a superb example of American
manhood, combining mentality with
Drawn; desire of service to their
country with personal pride in the
careers they have chosen.
OF the $500 who reported nearly
1000 are already commissioned as
officers of the reserve corps. The
others are candidates and on their
own merits will depend their COM
missions. All will receive the
course of instruction on the same
basis, with the exception that those
already commissioned receive pay,
while the candidates will not be
paid until congress makes the neces-
sary appropriations.
instruction will be taught in in
fantry, calvary, field artillery, coast
artillery and engineering arms of
the service.
For the first month instruction
will be devoted to basic infantry
ork and to instruction in those
duties of officers common to all
branches of the service.
Included in this is tent pitching,
rifle and revolver practice, organiza-
ton of companies, how to supply
rations and equipment, how to pre-
pare food and food values, trench
digging and drill formation, to-
gether with many incidental bran
ches of the service.
uylxl xl1 hansnninU 0f tho CnnHn6
months training the fifteen com
panies. comprising three battalions,
will be reassigned into nine COM
panies of infantry, two of cavalry,
three of field artillery and one en-
gineer company. In addition to
general instruction, special instruc-
ton will be given in the branches
Of the service to which the men
have beer assigned. The infantry
officers will be given demonstra-
machine guns, use of hand grenades
and bayonets, p%atroling and other
details necessary for the education
of a first class officer.
instruction during the second
month in the cavalry branch will in
clude care and use of horses and
mules, cavalry patroling and in
struction in infantry work which
cavalry has to perform dismounted.
The field artillery will receive dur
ing the second month the same in
struction as the cavalry, together
with use of the field gun and drill
formation.
The engineer company will be
instructed in designing field forti-
fications, laying out trenches, re-
pairing of highways and railroads,
concealment of all defense works,
with special reference to conceal
ment of u emplacement from
aeroplane observation.
The third months training will
be an elaboration of the second
month. AS yet the war department
has not announced how many COM
missions will be given at the COM
pletion of training.
All of the reserve officers who
have already been commissioned
will receive, in addition to pay,
quarters, heat and light. The can
didates for commissions will re-
We quarters. heat and light. ra-
Nons, uniforms and arms until their
pay begins. when they will be re-
auired to provide their Owl food.
and pay for their uniforms.
Each man will put in ten hours
a day of hard work, five in the
morning, three in the afternoon and
two in the evening. The evening
hours will be devoted to study and
each man will be put on his honor
to study conscientiously for that
period. Officers will be detailed
to give the men whatever aid is
necessary and to supervise the study