New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
Embryo officers must return the hay
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vanced than the one just finished"
said Colonel Wolf, discussing the mat
ter in Plattsburg a few days ago, but
still il will not be so very much more
difficult. 1t is the desire of the ad-
iutant general to obtain more captains
and first lieutenants, and 1t Is my opln-
ion. that the next camp will produce
them.
There are $50 men who will repeat
the course. These fellows are all good
men. They fell down on purely tech
meal matters in the last camp, and l
am sure they will make good with
more training. Undoubtedly large
percentage of them will be desired Tor
captaincies or better"
This certainly is good news for the
! "repeaters." Some Of them, not un-
| derstanding why they failed in the hTst
camp, had about concluded they were
/ out of i.
! II want TO get more out-of-door work
/ on the schedule of the second camp
| continued Colonel Wolf. Some OF the
classroom work of the last camp can be
/ done in the open with better results all
around. Tactical walks will replace
much classroom work. Instead Of men
! sitting down and facing a blackboard
and figuring out problems on map |
want the instructors to take them rlght
out into the fields and let nature fur
nish the map.
Train Men in Fields
! "a class will be taken out on field,
without arms, and the days lesson ex-
planned by the instructor. Then, at
certain point. the class will receive an
order giving the disposition Of their
own and the enemy forces. In the mill,
/ tary parlance this is called situation.
/ The captain will ask what is to be done
/ about il. and il will be up to the men
. TO tell him how their troops shall be
disposed TO save the day.
The tactical walk differs from the
terrain exercise in that no troops are
actually employed during the walk. we
are going to have more terrain exer-
cises, too, where the student command
ers actually handle troops against rep
/ resented hostile forces
While the course may be more inelu-
siye. in order TO train men for the
; higher grades, il actually should be
+ little more difficult Of mastery than the
FIRST one. To begin with, there Will be
more time for everything. BY getting
the men on the job before instruction
. begins full week will be saved. Days
I that were lost last May issuing equip
ment and assigning the men TO COM
panies and waiting for barracks 10 De
put in readiness for occupancy Will be
added 10 the schedule for the second
camp.
The barracks were ready for the re-
! eeption of the new men as soon as the
/ veterans moved out on Tuesday. All
eouipment will be distributed and as
| signments to organizations and quar-
( tiers completed, so that reveille at 5;SO
/ o'clock on the morning Of August ~
I will stir Plsttsburg to the immediate
task, which Is the making Of officers.
/ Colonel Wolf and members Of his
staff have recommended other depart
u1es from the first schedule. In the pre-
yious camp all men had a month OF In
fantry training, after which the camp
was reorgsnized and divided into the
different arms Of the service. This
wasted valuable time, so Colonel Wolf
has recommended that at the beginning
Of the camp the men be placed with
the arm in which they desire to serve
and that the whole three months be de-
voted 70 familiarizing them with that
particular branch.
Camp Was Upset
Major Edgar 7. Collins Of the Cen
eral staff, commander OF the New YORK
regimentsat the first camp, discussing
this matter, said:
| "The old system caused us to lose
three or four days when time was most
valuable II brought about an upheaval
in camp just when we thought we had
things running smoothly. II caused
many men 10 make foolish changes, and
the result is that these men are with
out com N issions to-day.
n number Of men left the infantry
| for thr other arms, notably artillery,
| lust ,cause the opportunity pre-
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