Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-09-14
ARMY TRAINING AT
UNIVERSITY

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vising the plan for University train
ing of soldiers. This revision has
been compelled by the new Congress
ional legislation lowering the draft
age to eighteen years.
The Washington Committee has
not yet given the University author
tiles final and detailed instructions.
General instructions concerning the
revised plan have come by wire. A
summary of these general instruct
ions follows.
, There are to be organized at those
Colleges and Universities satisfying
Federal standards Student Army
Training Corps Units. Such units
will have two divisions, A and B.
Division A will be the vocational
division. Men admitted to it from
the draft boards or environments will
be fully enlisted soldiers who have
completed at least a grammar school
education and who have had or who
desire to have some training in mech
anical lines. The University course
for such men will continue for eight
weeks and will include intensive train
ing six hours day in some special
mechanical line. These men will be
under full military control, living I'M
der barracks regulations, being given
daily military training and receiving
$50 per month from the Federal Gov
eminent in addition to their uniforms,
food and lodging
AT the end OF eight weeks the best
OF these men in military work may be
sent to Officers Training Camps.
Ten per cent of the men in the first
University of Nevada Training De
tachment were so sent. Those men
who do excellently in their mechanic
al work will be transferred to their
particular line OF work in the service.
Any men who do poor work generally
will be sent directly to environments
for service as privates.
Division B will be the collegiate
division. Men admitted to this divis-
ion must be physically fit and at
least eighteen years old. They must
be graduates from standard high
school They will also be fully en-
listed soldiers assigned to have special
study opportunity at the University.
They will take a regular University
course, including not less than six or
eight hours week of special infantry
training The rest of their courses
will probably be along lines OF spec
ial war usefulness, such as chemistry,
English, modern languages, mechan-
les, geology, physics, etc. These men
must register with their draft boards
on September II and WILL on their re-
quest, be assigned to the collegiate
branch of the Students Army Train
ing Corps as soon thereafter as pos
sible From the time they are so as
signed they will receive full sold
ier's uniform and $50 a month pay.
AS soon as the University and the
Federal Government can reach an a
greement as to proper barracks and
dining arrangements, all men of this
collegiate section will be provided
with food and lodging in addition to
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then be required to live under full
military control i'll the building chos-
en- for them.
The University courses to be taken
by these men are to be intensive and
planned in units OF probably three
months length AT the end OF each
period the men will be rated by their
military Commandant and by the Uni
versity teachers. If the rating is very
high in military work, the student
may be recommended TO an Officers
Training Camp in any arm OF the ser
vice which he chooses. If the rating
is high in his technical courses the
student may be continued at the I'M
iversty for another three months per
iod. If the ratings should not be
good in either military or technical
wark the student will be sent to a can
torment for service as a private.
Washington advises that practically
all OF these men enlisted this fall in
both sections of S.ATC. will be in
in active Service by next june. 1t
also advises that hereafter most OF its
new officers will come through the
S.A.TC.
The University Of Nevada will have
unit Of the Safe. with both div
isions.