Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-09-13
Students ARMY
TRAINING CORPS
Adjutant General GiIkyson Re-
publishes Letter From War
Department on Subject

- L Ia 4OlNs RSR6
that the young men of the State may
become familiar with the plans out
lined for the Students Army Training
Corps, Adjutant General Frederick
VI. Gilkyson today republished from
b letter the Wa Department sent TO
colleges of the United States the gen.
eral plans under which the corps will
operate this year..
Among the most important state
ments were the following:
All young men who were planning
to go to school this fall should carry
out their plans and do so. Each
should go to the college of his choice.
matriculate and enter As a regular
student He will, of course. also reg
lister with his local board on the regis
tration day set by the President. AS
soon as possible after registration
day, probably on or about October 1.
opportunity will be given for all the
regularly enrolled students to be in
Quoted into the Students Army Train
ing Corps at the schools where they
are in attendance. Thus the corps
will be organized by voluntary induc-
ton under the Selective Service Act.
instead of by enlistment as previously
Contemplated.
The student, by voluntary induc-
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States Army, uniformed. subject to
military discipline and with the pay
of a private. They will simultaneous
ly be placed on full active duty n
contracts will be made as soon as
possible with the colleges for the
housing, subsistence and instruction
of the student soldiers.
Officers, uniforms, rifles and such
other equipment as may be available
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ment, as previously announced.
The student-soldiers will be given
military instruction under officers of
the army and will be kept under OBJ
~servation and test to determine their
qualifications as officer candidates,
and technical experts such as engi-
neers, chemists and doctors. After a.
certain period the men will be select
al according to their performance.
end assigned to military duty In one
OF the following ways:
He may be transferred to a central
officers training camp.
He may be transferred to a non
commissioned officers training
school.
He may be assigned to the school
where he is enrolled for further in
tensiye work In a specified line for a
limited specified time.
He may be assigned to the voca-
tional training section of the corps
for ~technician training of military
value.
He may be transferred to a canton
ment for duty with troops as a priv
ate.
Similar sorting and -reassignment
Of the men will be made at periodical
intervals. as the requirements of the
service demand. 1t cannot be definite
ly stated how long a particular stu
dent will remain at college. This will
depend on the requirements of the
mobilization and the age group to
which he belongs. In order to keep
he unit at adequate strength, men
will be admitted from secondary
schools or transferred from Depot
Brigades as the need may require.
No units of the corps will, for the
present, be established at secondary
schools. but tits hoped to provide at
an early date for the extension of
military instruction in such schools.
The secondary schools are urged to
intensity their instruction so that
young men seventeen and eighteen
years old may be qualified to enter
college as promptly as possible.
There will be both a collegiate sec
non and vocational section OF the
5tudents Army Training Corps.
Young men of draft age of grammar
school education. will be given oppor-
tunity TO enter the vocational section
Of the corps. At present about "a. 500
men are called for this section each
month. Applications for voluntary in
duction into the vocational section
should be made to the local board and
an effort will be made to
date as many as possible of those who
volunteer for this training.
Men I'm the vocational section viii
be rated and tested by the standard
army methods and those who are
found TO possess the requisite quail
n%cation5 may be assigned for further
training In the collegiate section.
In view of the comparatively short
time during which most OF the stu
dent-soldiers will remain in college
and the exacting military duties
awaiting them academic instructions
must necessarily be modified along
lines of direct military value. The
War Department will perscribe or
suggest such notifications. The
schedule of purely military instruction
will not preclude academic work. IT.
will vary to some extent in accord
ance with the type of academic in
HfFuctfon that IS will he less In pnad-