The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-11-22
TAKING COURSE AT
INFANTRY SCHOOL
Capt. Roy b. Miner Begins Three
Months Instruction at Columbus,
Ga.-Cost Is Nominal.
Especial to The Reformer.)

FORT BENNING, Ga, Nov. %.
| Among those fortunate National
Guard and reserve officers selected &c
| take the three-months course at the in
fantry school at Columbus, Ga. this fall
| and winter is Capt Roy B. Miner o.
is Vine street, Brattleboro, who has re-
| ported to the commandment for duty. The
course given these officers is an abbre-
waited edition of the same instruction
which every regular army infantry officer
! IS now required to take and its compile
! ton makes a far more efficient officer OF
any one, no matter how great has been
his previous experience. 1t is an ac-
knowledged fact that the graduates OF
the infantry school are much sought
after for duty with all of the three com
ponents of the army of the United States
the National Guard, organized reserve
and regular army.
Due to the small appropriation made
by congress ii is impossible to send even
a good proportion of the ambitious Ma
tonal Guard and reserve officers to Fort
Benning, so that the work of spreading
this instruction throughout the army of
the United States is greatly handicapped.
The cost of the instruction is nominal as
it involves but three months pay and
travel expenses for each officer, since the
school itself is prepared to function when
the students arrive. When it is taken
into consideration that radical action has
reduced the size of the regular army to
a point far below the recommended fip-
ures, the Importance of the work of
training the National Guard and reserve
officers is of greatly increased impor-
lance and the small size of the present
class, about 100, is regretable.
The course for these incoming officers
VIII be a steady grind of instruction for
three months. The shOrtness of the time
makes 1t imperative that very possible
working moment be utilized and the con
Sequent pressure will resemble that
which prevailed at the training camns
when we entered the World war, though
the quality of the instruction will be far
ahead of that then offered Facilities
and experience have combined 10 make
this condition possible.
Though the infantry school is the
greatest infantry instruction plant in the
world 1t Is still in the formative stage
as Tar as accommodations go and part of
the incoming students will have to be
quartered in tents. This is also the case
with many of the regular army officers
stationed here and hundreds of others of
the latter class are forced TO live in Co
lumouS because shortage of apprOpria-
tons has made it impossible to construct
suthcient quarters here for the married
o1ncers. The unmarried field officers
coioheIs, lieutenant colonies and ma iors
OF the regular army who have been living
In pair of rooms in the bachelor seq
ton OF the fort, have shown their desire
to make the incoming officers as comfort
able as possible by each giving up ono
OF their rooms to them, but even this will
not provide enough TO make the tent
living unnecessary
Fun information of these conditions
mas been given country wide publicity So
that the National Guard and reserve
oflcers are coming here with their eyes
vide open and it is an evidence of their
nlsh spirit that they have volunteered
and striven to be selected for This dol
OF hard work, the better to be preparef
TO tuIhll their duties of citizenship in
time of national danger. -