Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1922-04-28
TRAINING CAMP
PLANS OUTLINED
Three Courses Offered This
Summer; Four Camps to be
Opened, Instead Of Two

Four citizens military camps are to
be conducted in the Eighth Corps area
instead of two. The camps will be OPP
ened July q and closed August 20.
Camps will be held at Camp Travis,
Tex, for infantry cavalry and artil-
lery branches; at Fort Sill, Okla, for
infantry and artillery; at Fort Logan,
Colo, for infantry and at Fort Bliss, FL
Paso, for infantry, cavalry and artil-
lery.
Word to this effect was received
yesterday by Major Verling Marshall,
local chairman of the Military Train
ing Camps Association. from 1t. Col.
gorge G. Lewis, goth Infantry training
camp officer at Fort Sam Houston for
the Eight Corps area.
Three Courses Offered.
Three courses of study will be offer
ed this summer, the red, the white
and the blue course. Only the red
course was given last year. Those
eligible for the red courses must be
between II and % years of age. They
must not be less than so inches in
height at II years of age and no. less
than SO inches at IS years. and must
have at least two inch chest eXpan-
sion.
The object of the red course will be
to provide elementary training in mill
tary and camp life suitable for the
training of a private in the organized
reserves. However, in attending the
summer camps no obligation to join
the reserve force will be incurred, it is
announced.
The white course will be for those
who wish to qualify as non-commis-
stoned officers of the reserve force.
the applicants must be between IS and
81 years OF age with physical require
ments slightly, higher than for the red
course. Educational requirements
must be met with a grammar school
education or its equivalent. Students
in the white course will be given the
opportunity to act as non-commission-
ed officers in the trainin camps.
| Special encouragement will be given
/ those who graduated last year from
the red course, also privates of the Ma
tional Guard, regular army and organ
ICED forces.
In the blue course, third and highest
course to be offered, applicants must
! be between 10 and q years of age.
graduates of the other courses will not
be barred because of age. This course
is designed for non-commissioned Of
ficers of the National Guard, regular
army, organized reserves and students
of military colleges who desire to quail
| ify for commissions in the reserve for
ces.
How to Make Application.
Officers of the organized reserves
regular army and national guard will
have charge Of the training Of the
youths who enter the summer camps
The, procedure of prospective anpli
cants for gaining admission to the
training camp is announced by Colonel
Z Lewis as follows: applicants will write
to the Citizens Military Trainins
Camps Department, Eigth Corps Area
Fort Sam Houston. Applications
blanks for physical examination viii
be mailed When these blanks are re
ceived by the applicant he will repor
to a home physician CDR. Fitzgerald
for the Warren District,) for physica
examination. After the blank is for
warded to the headquarters of the
training camps, the applicant will
await the selection of the allotmen
, for training.
While students at the summe
camps will not receive pay, they wi
be given mileage of five cents per mil
, to and from the camp, received boarC
: quarters, clothing, free medical after
ton, free ammunition for target IRA
and all necessary arms and equipmen