The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1917-03-10
NUMBER 81.
CITIZENS TRAINING CAMP.
Alexandria Selected as Site for Sum
mer Military School.

Alexandria Selected as Site for Sum-
mer Military School.
| Under the provisions of the new
national defense act, citizens mil
ltary training camp will be conduct
ed at Camp Stafford, near Alexandria,
July 28 to August 27 next, with of
tlcers of the United States army in
| charge.
The objects of the camp are to in
struct and train citizens in the use of
arms and in the tactical use of troops,
to teach the military history and
policy of the United States and the
military conditions existing therein,
and also to prepare those desiring
commissions in the Officers Reserve
| Corps for the duties pertaining to
such commissions.
| The camp may be attended by any
male citizen of the United States,
| tor any male who has declared his in
tention of becoming citizen), be-
tween the ages of Is and 45, who is
in sound physical condition and of
good moral character, and who has
had the equivalent of a high school
education.
Those who have the above quail
fications, but who are between the
ages of IS and SIS, may be authorized
to attend, but entirely at their own
expense.
Attendance at the camp involves
absolutely no obligation of any kind
for future military service. As ex-
planned below, those who have COM
pleted a course of three camps, may
become members of the Officers Re
serve Corps, subject to call in the
event of war.
Transportation from the attendants
home to the camp and return will be
furnished by the United States; the
exact manner in which this will be
done has not yet been decided upon.
Subsistence while at the camp will be
furnished by the United States with
out cost to trWhttendant.
The uniformly will be furnished at
the expense of faEhe United States in
somewhat the following manner:
(a) The applicant is urged to fur
nish his own uniform. After being
accepted as an attendant, he has the
privilege of purchasing this uniform
from the government at cost price,
plus 10 per cent. At the conclusion
of each of his three terms, he will
be then reimbursed one-third of the
amount SO expended.
(b) The applicant may wear the
uniform already purchased by him at
some former camp, and he will be
similarly reimbursed
(c) Upon reporting at the camp
and depositing SO, uniform will be
fsry. icl,a II a4% IN ha
ed by him at the conclusion Of the
camp. If no article furnished has
been lost or damaged other than by
fair wear, the deposit will be return
ed, or in the event of loss Or damage,
ia lanee he retglne after the
cost Of the lost or damaged article
has been deducted.
Attendants at the camp will be fur
nished cots, bedding, arms and equip
ment by the United States.
The course of instruction will in
clude series of three camps, each Of
thirty days duration, and known re-
spectively as the Red, White and Blue
camps. Instruction at the first camp
will be a basic infantry course. For
the second and third camps, the at
tendant will be allowed to choose the
particular arm of the service In which
he desires to be instructed, and will
be taught the duties Of officers and
non-commissioned officers of that par
ticular arm. In addition to the sum-
mer camps, a correspondence course
will be conducted during the winter
months for those desiring to continue
their studies.
A part of thu period of each camp
will be devoteeIto march in which
actual campaio9 conditions will be as
sumed, and9ApWhich problems of Sc
curity, transportation, bivouac and
combat will be solved
Those VINO have completed the
course of three camps and the pre-
scribed winter work will be given an
opportunity to obtain commission In
the Officers Reserve Corps, should
they SO desire.
All students under forty-fye years
of age who have not had typhoid
fever, or who are not otherwise pro-
teeted against it, are urged to take
the typhoid prophylaxis. This pro-
phylaxis will be administered at the
camp or to enrolled applicants prior
to their arrival at the camp at such
places as the department commander
may designate, or supply of the Sc
rum to be administered to enrolled
applicants only may be sent to any
reputable physician upon application.
Applications to attend the camp
should be made to the Officer IN
Charge of Training Camps, Southern
Department, Fort Sam Houston, San
Antonio, Texas.