Omaha daily bee., 1922-04-24
Plans for Summer
Military Training
Camps Completed
Schedule for Reserve Officers
and Other Branches Waits
for Appropriation by
Congress.

Washington. April ga iul
summer schedule OF military train
ing this year. under the new mill,
tary policy OF the government has
been completed a, the War depart,
ment and is now in the hands o!
the corps area commanders. who will
supervise the work. Ii covers the
places. dates and purposes OF scores
oi camps TO be held over the eoun-
try beginning June r. II congress
provides sufficient funds in the pend
ing army bill.
Training. work for the reserve OF.
ficers and the training corps that
supplements that branch OF the citi-
zen soldier machine. is included in
the schedule. as well as the civilian
training camps modelled on the old
Plattsburg plan. the National guard
and the organized reserves. Virtu-
orally every military post or National
guard camp site in the country will
be in use and. in all, close TO 250.00O
civilians are expected TO get a taste
OF army life during the summer
months. Last year about 10000
passed through the civilian training
camps and 100000 through the Ma
,ional guard ccniers.
Regulars to Take Part.
In round figures the encampment
training schedule, which awaits only
the action OF congress in making
funds available TO set il going in mid
June. provides for ls-day training
periods for 100000 National guards.
men. $4,000 reserve officers and
specialists. and longer periods for
10000 student members Of the re-
serve officers training corps, and 27,-
600 civilians in the civilian military
training camps. The full strength
OF the regular army will be thrown
into the training work, together with
the full equipment OF the troops.
In the hands of corps area COM
manders are the detailed charts show
ing just when each camp is open and
the course OF instruction. National
guard and organized reserve units
are assigned by number to each
army or National guard post available
in each state and every branch OF
modern military science will be
dealt with.
Call Reserve Officers.
In effect, a skeleton mobilization
of wartime army lasting over the
period OF from mid-June to Septem-
Der is planned. II will be a cross
section, widely Scattered over the
nation, Of the war army Of 100000
men which trainers Of the present
national defense act designed to
make available for defense in a mat
ter Of weeks instead of months,
should the need ever arise.
To aid regular officers, some 900
reserve officers will be called as in
structors in the civilian military
training camps, their work being |
in addition to their own ls-day train
ing with, the regular troops. Most
Of these will be men with overseas
experience to back them if the de-
partment!s expectations are realized
as to the number who will volunteer
as instructors. 4
Based on Pershing's Plan.
Underlying all the work is care-
fully prepared training doctrine for
the entire army worked out under
General Pershing's supervision, as
the basis on which all military train
ing under the government is to rest.
Whatever individual camp command
ers do in laying out each days pro-
gram will be in accordance with this
doctrine, in order to make sure OF
co-ordinated effort and the fighting
efficiency of the whole force should
il ever be called together.
The recent declaration Of the War
department that the man with the
rifle and bayonet was still the basic
unit of war was part OF this doc
trine. as was the decision that Amer
ican troops should devote only
fourth Of their time to training for
defensive operations and the remain.
ing to preparing for attack. That
spirit, it was said at the department..
is to govern all camps this year.