The Missouri herald., 1922-11-24
CAPT. C.. o. RAINE Jr. TAKES
INFANTRY COURSE IN GEORGIA

Among those fortunate National
Guard and Reserve officers who have
been selected to take the three
months course at the Infantry
School at Columbus, Ca. this fall
and winter is Capt. G. o. Raine Jr..
and he recently reported to the Com
mandant for duty. The course given
these officers Is an abbreviated edi-
tion of the same instruction which
every Regular Army Infantry officer
is now required to take and its COM
pletion makes far more efficient
officer of any one. no matter how
great has been his previous expert
ence. 1t Is an acknowledged fact
that the graduates of the Infantry
School are much sought after for
duty with all the three components
of the Army of the United States, the
National Guard, Organized Reserve
and Regular Army.
Due to the small appropriation
made by Congress 1t is impossible to
send even a good proportion of the
ambitious National Guard and Re-
serve officers to Fort Benning, so
that the work of spreading this in
struction throughout the army of
the United States is greatly handi.
capped. The cost of the instruction
is nominal, as it involves but three
months pay and travel l'expenses for
each officer, since the school itself
is prepared to function when the
students arrive. When it is taken
into consideration that radical ac-
ton has reduced the size of the Reg
ular Army to point far below the
recommended figures, the Importance
of the work of training the National
Guard and Reserve officers is of
greatly increased Importance sand
the small size of the present class,
about one hundred, is regrettable.
The course for these incoming Off
GERS started November l and will be
Il steady grind of instruction for
three months. The shortness of the
time makes it imperative that every
possible working moment be util-
lied and the. consequent pressure
will resemble that which prevailed
at the training camps when we en-
tered the World War. though the
quality of the instruction will be far
ahead of that then offered. Facili-
ties and experience have combined
to make this condition possible.
Though the Infantry School is the
| greatest Infantry instruction plant
in the world, it is still in it's forma-
go, and part of the incoming stu
Idents will have to be quartered in
tents. This is also the case with
many of the Regular Army officers
stationed at that place. and hun
dreds of others of the latter class are
forced to live in Columbus because
shortage of appropriations has made
| it impossible to construct sufficient
! quarters for the married officers The
unmarried field officers, colOnels,
lieutenant colonels and majors of
the Regular Army who have been liv-
ing in pair of rooms in the bach
elor section of the Fort have shown
their desire to make the incoming
brother officers as comfortable as
possible by each giving up one of
their rooms to them; but even this
will not provide enough to make the
tent living unnecessary.
Full information of these condi-
tSons has been given country wide
publicity so that the National Guard
and Reserve officers are going there
with their eyes wide open, and is an
evidence of their high spirit that
they have volunteered and striven
to be selected for this detail of hard
work, the better to be prepared to
fulfill their duties of citizenship in
time of National danger.
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