San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-13
ARMY SCHOOLS
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257STUDENTS
College Men to Train at
Fort Sam Houston
and Brooks.
|180 FROM A. & M.
Three Other Camps Allot-
ted Quotas From
Other States.
1S0 FROM A. & M.

OF the 534 college students who arc
10 attend the give Reserve Officers
. Training Camps in the Eighth Corps
Area during the coming summer, 25t,
| or ten less than half the total num-
! Der. will attend camp in San Antonio,
according to figures given out from
Eghih Corps Area headquarters
FIdaFday morning. OF the five camps
in this corps area. two will be in San
Antonio. One camp will be at Fort
Sam Houston while the other camp
4 for students taking the air service
course, will be held at Brooks Field.
The other camps>will be held at Fort
| Sill. Okla. Fort Logan, Col, and ut
Fort Huachuca. Ariz.
At Fort Sam Houston 241 students
Twill attend. sixteen will attend at
Brooks Field: POI at Fort sill; 90
at Fort Huachuca, and 16 will attend
at Fort Logan. The camp at Fort Lo-
gan is for engineering students only.
Many From Texas A. & NJ.
According to figures released from
Eighth Corps Area headquarters, Uf
the 241 students to attend camp att
Fort Sam Houston. $50 will come from
Texas A. & NJ. College at College Sta
|tion; 20 will come from the Baylor
Medical College at Dallas; sixteen will
come from the New Mexico Military
Institute at Roswell, n. NJ, seven will
come from Allan Academy at Bryan.
Texas six will come from West Texas
Military Academy of San Antonio
land twelve will come from the New
Mexico A. & NJ College.
The sixteen students. who are to
|attend the air service school at Brooks
Field will be from the Texas A. & NJ.
College, and the sixteen who are to
|attend the engineering school at Fort
Logan will come from the Colorado
School of Mines at Golden. Col.
Oklahoma Varsity TO Send 20f.
The 90 students who will attend
the camp at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., I
will come from the University of Ariz-
ona at Tucson, and from the New
Mexico Military Institute at Ros-
we'll, n. NJ: 30 from the former
school and % from the latter.
OF the POI students who are TO at
tend the summer camp at Fort Sill.
60 will come from the University of
Oklahoma at Norman. Okla. 102 will
come from the Oklahoma A. & NJ.
College at Saltwater, and 30 will come
from the Colorado Agricultural Col
lege at Fort Collins, Col.
Texas A. 4 NJ. College and the New
Mexico Military Institute are the only
two colleges in the corps area that
are to send quotas of students TO two
different camps. Texas A. & NJ. is to
send sixteen students to the air ser-I
vice camp at Brooks Field, and 1901
students to the camp at Fort Sam
Houston. The New Mexico Military
Institute is 10 send twelve students
10 the camp Mt Fort Sam Houston and
% students to the camp at Fort Hua-l
chuca.
Texas A. & NJ again plays q leadingl
role in that it is to furnish more stu
dents for the Reserve Officers Train
ing Camps in this corps area than any
other college. OF the 534 students tol
attend the five camps. 1876 will be
Texas A. & NJ. students. Oklahoma
A. 6. NJ. is second. furnishing 102
students. all Of whom will attend camp
at Fort Sill.
To Open in June.
A larger number of different
branches of the service will be taught
in the II. q. II. G.. at Fort Sam Hous.
ton than in any Of the other summer
raining camps, there being schools
in five different branches Of
the service for that camp. They are !
Infantry. cavalry, field artillery. sig
nal and medical corps. At Fort Sill
,nly field artillery will be taught
and Mt Fort Huachuca only cavalry
will be taught. The school at Fort
Logan is solely for students taking
he X. o. T. c. engineering course ]
and the school at Brooks Field is for
lir service students. Is
The camps will open early in June.