Milford chronicle., 1922-04-21
TRAINING CAMPS
FREE TO YOUNG MEN
Two Weeks At Healthy Sta
tions With All Expenses
Paid Make Fine Summer
Vacation.

AlSul6udul I1GIDeIL D. NA"yOA5 ~
licity, Office Recruiting Adjutant, Gov
ernors Island, New York. Telephone
Broad Extension 500.
Seven Citizens Military Training
Camps. covering all branches of the
service. will be opened August 2 and
will close August 81, according to
announcement from Headquarters
Second Corps Area, Governors Is
land, New York.
The program for these camps, it
was stated, forms the most extensive
course of training ever undertaken by
the United States in time of peace.
The seven camps will be in the Sec
ond Corps area of which New York
City is headquarters, and in addition
to these camps each Corps area thru
out the country will hold training
camps of its own.
Plattsburg, as last year, will be the
site of the main infantry camp, but
the enthusiastic reception accorded
the first camp at Plattsburg has led
the War Department to extend the
training camp idea on which the, Or
ganized Reserve, or the third element
of the Army of the United States is
based.
So this year the young men who at
tend the camps will be given the op-
portunity of selecting the branch OF
service which they prefer. Under
plans worked out under the direction
of Major General R. L. Bullard, COM
manding the Second Corps area, the
largest camp for infantry will be held
in Plattsburg.
A small infantry camp will be held
in Porto Rico for the benefit of the
citizens there who desire to attend. 1t
was stated in the official announce
ment concerning the camps that no
more enthusiastic proponents OF the
training camp idea are to be found
than in Porto Rico, as every mail
from there brings scores of apphca-
tiOns to the Office of Major Harvey H.
Fletcher, Recruiting Adjutant OF the
Second Corps Area.
In addition to the two infantry
camps the cavalry will have camp
of its own at Camp Dix, N. j., where
the Engineers will also hold month
of instruction for the young men who
choose that branch of the service.
There will be a field artillery camp
but on account of the technical dit1-
culties in the way the selection of
site for this camp of instruction has
been postponed, but will be announc-
ed later.
A splendid camp for the Coast Ar
tillery will be established at fort
Hancock, N. ]. The Signal Corps camp
of instruction will be at Camp Alfred
Vail, N. J.
The camps will be divided into Red,
White and Blue Courses. The RED
Course will be the one to which will
go Young men who have for the first
time felt the urge to spend a month
in training at the expense of the gov
ernment.
AGE limits for the Red Course have
been Slightly changed this year, the
limits being fixed from seventeen 10
twenty-five. For the White Course the
age limit has been fixed from eighteen
to twenty-six and for the Blue Course
from nineteen to twenty-seven.
Men who have had previous service
in the Regular Army, National Guard
Organized Reserves or who are Veter-
ans of the World War are eligible up
to thirty-five for all courses. No grad
yates of last years Red Camps are
barred on account of age.
Young men who joined the organlz-
ed reserve after finishing their course
at Plattsburg may go to the White
| Camp this year. At this camp they
will be carefully instructed in the du-
ties of non-commissioned officers and
at the conclusion of the camps they
will be given certificates showing that
thew have qualified as non-comm1s-
stoned officers in the event that they
successfully pass the tests and nave
the qualifications required.
To the Blue course camps Will go
those men whose military experience
is such as to fit them for training IN
higher work. Such of those as quallly
in these camps will be eligible TOT
commissions as officers in the Organ
ized Reserve.
Discussing the plans for the camps
General Bullard said:
"The training camp idea is design
ed to give the United States an army
upon which this country may rely IN
time of need, and which, during times
of peace will be administered econ
omically and with minimum OF de-
rangement of the affairs of the youth
of the country.
1.-THE basis upon which al military
training rests in health, personal by
/ giene, physical training and a desire
! for the betterment of ones country.
1t is the province of the Citizens Mil
itary Training Camp to instill these
wholesome ideals in the hearts of
those who attend them and that this
mission is being followed out is
shown by the thousands of letters re-
ceived from graduates of last years
camps and also by the fact that each
man who attended last year seems to
have become a recruiting officer for
the camps this year.
"The growth of the Citizens Mill
tary Training Camps idea has gone
far to solve the problem of the mill
tary future of this country, working
as it does into the extensive plans
made under the Act of National De-
tense. In this Act the Regular Army
is designed as a nucleus for the Army
of the United States which is now
composed of the Regular Army, the
National Guard and the Organized Re-
serve. 1t is into this latter force that
the graduates of the Citizens Military
Training Camps are placed, at their
own option, and it is this same force
which will give to this country a
large reserve to be called upon in
time Of amarpAnoV