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SEVEN CITIZENS
MILITARY CAMPS
Will be Open From August 2
to 81 and Will Include
All Branches.

Seven Citizens Military Training
Camps. covering all branches of the
service, will bc opened August and
will close August 81, according to an
nounocmcnt Yesterday from headquar-
tcrs. Second Corps Area. Governors
Island, New York
The program for these camps II was
stated. forms the most extensive course
Of training ever undertaken bY the
United Stater m time of. peace The
seven camps wilLhc in the Second Corps
AREA. Of which New York City is head
Quarters and in addition to these camrs
each corps area throughout the country
/ will hold training camps of rs own
/ Plattshurg. as last year, will I've the
| site of the main infantry camp, bot the
enthusiastic reception accorded the
first camp ut plattshurg has led the
Wnr Department 10 extend the training
camp idea ON which the organized re-
! serve, or the thud element at the army
( of the United States Is based.
80 tins wear the Young men who at
+ tend the camps will bc gwen the uppor-
tlnity of selecting the branch OF service
which they prefer Under plans worked
out under the direction of Malor-Gcn-
eral II. !. Bullnrd, commanding the Sec
ond Corps area, the largest camp Tor
infantry will he held IN llnitshurg.
In addition to the two infantry camps
the cavalry will have a camp ot its owl
At Camp DIX, y T., where the engineers
will also hold month of instruction ioi
the Young men who choose that branci
81 the service.
There will I've field artillery camp
hut on account of the technical Difficult
tics IN the way the selection OF n safe
for this camp al instruction has beer
postponed. hut will be announced later
A splendid camp for the Coast Artil'
lcrv course will be established at For
Hancock, y. j. The Signal Corps CAM
of instruction will he at Camp AlfrcC
Vail, y. J.
The camps will be divided into Red
White and Blue courses. The Red cours
Will be the one to which will go younl
men who have for the first time ielt tn
urge to SPEND a month in trainlngat tn
expense Of the government.
Age limits for the Red course hav
been slightly changed this year. IN
limits being fixed. from seventeen {
twenty-five For the White course IN
agc limit has been fixed from eighteen I
tueniy-six and for the Blue course tror
p nineteen 20 twenty-sevcn.
Men who have had previous servic
? in the Regular Army, National Gnarc
Organized Reserves or who are veteran
= Of the World War are eligible up I
thirty-fvc for all courses. No graduate
( Of last years Red camps are barred O
2 account OF age.
, Young men who joined the organize
- reserve after finishing their course a
r. Plattsburg may 60 to the White Cam
p tins year. At this camp they Will b
carefully instructed in the duties of no
: commissioned officers and at the cor
. clusion Of the camps they will be give
9 certificates showing t>Ct they hay
= qualified a. non-commlssIOnedo officers
the event that they successfully pa
the tests and have the qualifications n
quired
To the Blue course camps will go mos
men whose military experience Is such
10 fl them for training IN higher wori
% Such Of those rs qualify IN these camI
, will be eligible for commissions as o
d ficers in the Organized Reserve.