Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-06-03
NEW SERIES Of TRAINING
CAMPS TO OPEN IN AUGUST
All Located in Southern Part of
Country, Where Weather Will
Be Good Through Fall.
ANXIOUS FOR MEN ABOVE 81
Number Admitted Will Be Smaller
Than Those Now Under Instruc.
ton-Some of Present Locations
VIII Be Abandoned.
ANXIOUS FOR MEN ABOVE 81
tRy AssocIated Pre.,.I

WASHINGTON, June "A second
series Of officers training camps will
be held between August 81 and Noyem-
bcr 26 in eight locations to develop
officers for the second increment of
100000 men to be called into service
by the selective draft. Adjutant-Gene
Mccain. announced to-day. In general,
qualifications for admission to these
camps will be the same as tho 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 commanding generals of the
department In which the applicant
lives between June Is and July Is.
Citizens between the ages OF twenty
and nine months and forty-four years
are eligible.
AREAS FOR EACH CAMP
LOCATION ANNOUNCED
Some of the present sixteen officers
training camps will be abandoned in
the second series. and all selected for
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 ap-
plicants will be assigned arc as fol-
lows:
Fort Myer. Va.-vermont. Maine,
New Hampshire. MASSACHUSETTS,. Rhode
Island. Connecticut. New Jersey. Della
ware. Maryland. Virginia and the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Fort Mcpherson, Ga.-New York City
and contiguous territory Alabama.
Georgia and Florida.
Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.-Thc greater
part of New York State. the northern
part of Pennsylvania. Tennessee. North
Carolina and South Carolina.
Fort Benjamin Harrison. Ind.-The
southern part of Pennsylvania. Ohio,
West Virginia, Indiana and Kentucky,
Fort Logan II. Root. Ark, "or other
place to be designated"-wisc
Michigan. Mississippi. Louisiana and
Arkansas.
Fort Leon Springs. Tex.-Illinois.
Texas. Arizona. New Mexico and Okla
homa.
Fort Riley. Kans.-Minnesota. North
Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska. Iowa,
Kansas Missouri and Colorado.
The Preside. San Francisco-Utah
Wyoming, Montana. Idaho. Nevada,
Oregon, Washington and California.
DIFFICULT FOR MEN UNDER
THIRTY-ONE TO QUALIFY
The announcement of the camps
says:
"1he second series of officers tram
ing camps will he held with the def
mite mission OF producing body oF
line officers. capable of filling all places
In the grades above lieutenant. and
many OF the places in the lieutenant
grades of the second 100000 troops
THE minimum age limit for all Is
twenty years and nine months. How
ever. preference will be given to men
over thirty-one years of age. 1t will
be difficult for men under that age to
qualify. Men certified as acceptable
for the first series of companies. which
arc now In operation. must renew their
applications If they were not directed
to attend the first series of camps
Applications must be made between
June Is and July 10. The application
must be accompanied with tho names
OF three responsible citizens who know
the applicant"