The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-19
TRAINING CAMPS
TO OPEN MAY Is
Chance for University, Col
lege and Academy Men
to Win Commissions
OPPORTUNITY ALSO
FOR ENLISTED MEN

for the War and Serve in the Ranks
Until Commissioned-To Be in Speci-
fed Divisions.
WASHINGTON, April l9.-Secretary |
Baker has announced that the fourth |
series of officers training camps viii
open on May 10, at various divisional
camps and environments, for the train |
ing Of officers for the possible future
needs of the army.
The schools will be conducted in
specified divisions. Two per cent of
the enlisted personnel of the divisions
and detached units Of the regular army,
| National Guard Guard, and National
army, excepting the coast artillery and
the various staff corps, will be desig-
mated to attend such schools, this pro-
channels.
These training schools also will offer
another chance for men who have had
military training at educational insti
tutions under government supervision
to win commissions in the army.
Specifications issued were in part as
follows:
'All graduating members of senior
divisions, reserve officers training
corps units. who have completed the
course prescribed for the reserve Off
GERS training corps, and such members
OF the advanced course, senior divi-
sions, of the reserve officers training
corps, who, by May -, 1918, have com
pleted one year of the advanced course,
and also have completed 800 hours of
military instruction since Jan. |. 1917,
under the supervision of an officer of
the army. will be admitted to a train
ing school.
''In addition to the above, a number
OF meI who have had at least one
Iyear s military training under army Off
GERS at any time during the last lC
years in educational institutions which
have earned government recognition
will also be admitted
''These two groups will be appor
toned among the various training
schools. 1t will be impracticable tc
furnish tue graduates ,qf the last i
Iyears, who desire 10 apply, with appli
cation blanks through the usual chan
nelS owing to the short period of time
which will elapse before the school i
put into operation.
ANY graduate of draft age who ha
had at least one year Of military in
struction at an educational institution
under the supervision Of an officer 0
the army while attending same an,
who desires to attend training school
should submit without delay 10 tn
head of his educational institution o
to the professor OF military science an
tactics Of the institution a letter ar
plying for admission to the fourth off
GERS training school.
. All applications should be in tn
hands of the officials of the educationa
institutions not later than May l. \
applications will be received or cor
sidered by the war department, and n
applications will be given considerable
if received after MAJ |, or if the rec
ords of the institution do not show tha
the applicant has had at least one yea
OF military training under the superv
sion of an officer of the army Will
attending the institution, or if an az
iIitthl pIi Va II. 1919, 10 NouHSS
than 20 years 9 months or older tina
30 wears.
Each educational institution e.
titled to representation will be informe
of the quota assigned to it, and i
structions will be furnished as to Il
method of selecting its quota fro
those who may apply.
Any men with qualifications s
out herein, not now in the military ser
ice, who wish to take advantage
this opportunity to try a commissi
as second lieutenant in the line of t
army, should apply Immediately to t
educational institutions they attend,
and should take particular care to f
low accurately the method Of apple
ton prescribed herein.
The training schools will be &C
Quoted in specified divisions. Two 7
cent of the enlisted personnel OF t
divisions and detached units of the r.
ular army, National Guard, and matte
al army, excepting the coast artille
and the various staff corps, will be
gnated to attend such schools.
1.-THE men who successfully compl
the course and are SO recommended "
be listed as eligible for commissions
second lieutenants, and will be &C
missioned as vacancies occur III
infantry, cavalry, and field artillery