Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1917-04-17
AMERICAN LAKE
RESERVE CAMP
Many Aberdeen Men Will Try
For Commissions on Of
ficers Reserve Corps
EXAMINATION IS RIGID
Character, Sobriety, Person
ality, Reputation and
Education Required

Since it was definitely announced
by the war department that American
lake has been chosen as the camp for
training men for the Officers Reserve
corps, flood of inquiries as to fitness
and qualifications required has come
from Aberdeen businessmen who wish
| to take the three months training and
examinations for commissions in the
corps.
The schooling camp will probably
open between May Is and June 1st.
Major General Bell, department COM
mander of the western department,
has ordered Captain A. H. Erhbeck,
with a corps of engineers, to do the
preliminary work of laying out the
camp. Addition plans for the work
will be brought north by Captain
Richard Parks, of the corps of en-
gineers. The initial capacity of the
camp will handle 1000 civilian stud
ents but will ultimately care for
5000.
This course is sOmwhat different
from the civilian training camps held
in the past. At those courses the
student assumed no obligations but at
the reserve corps training camp the
student obligates himself to take
whatever commission is conferred
upon him at the conclusion of his
studies.
Qualifications
An applicant must be an American
by birth or have received his full cit.
izenship papers. He must be at least
21 years Of age. An applicant can
not be commissioned
AS second lieutenant beyond the age
of 80.
As first lieutenant beyond the age
of SO.
AS captain beyond the age Of 40.
AS major beyond the age of As.
Applicant must have had sufficient
military training to pass military ex-
animation prescribed for men and
grade in the line Unfantry, Cavalry,
Artillery.
In the examination of applicants
special stress is laid on the following
requirements:
1. Character and sobriety.
2. Personality, address and force.
8. Reputation and standing in his
community
a. Whether or not he is likely to
command respect of officers and
enlisted men.
5. Whether or not be has adequate
education.
Physical Requirements.
Examination as to physical quail
fications will conform to standard re-
quired of recruits for the United
States Army, with the possible ex-
ception that certain refractory errors
of vision may be waived.
Period of Service
Commissions in the Officers Re-
serve Corps are for a period of five
years, unless sooner terminated in the
discretion of the President. Officers
may be re-commissioned either in the
same or higher grades for successive
periods of five years, subject to ex-
animation and to the age limits, as
provided above. A reserve officer
may resign in time of peace. subject
to the approval of the Secretary Of
War. In time of war or threatened
war, he may not resign.
Pensions
Officers of the Reserve Corps shall
not be entitled to retirement or re-
tired pay, and shall be entitled to a
pension only for disability incurred in
the line of duty and while in active
service.
Pay
In time of war when called out for
active service or training, reserve
officer exercises the functions and
draws the pay of an officer of cor
responding rank and branch of the
regular Army. The base pay is as
follows:
Second Lieutenant. .$141.67 per
month.
First Lieutenant. ..... 1867 per
month.
Captain. $4,000 per month
Major. .250.00 per month
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