New Britain herald., 1924-11-04
OVER 275,OOO IN
 TRAINING AT CAMP
More Than Quarter Million Under Govt. Supervision


 than a quarter million men re- ceived some degree of intensive military training under war depart- ment supervision last summer. The exact number was shown In re- ports now before Major General John l.. Hines, chief of staff was 27b,63O, of whom 23,250 were of- ficers and the remainder enlisted personnel. The period of training ranged from Is days for the Na- tional Guard and Organized Re- serves to three. months of concen- trated activity for the regulars who compose the instructor and demonstration force around which work of the civilian soldiers was centered.
 The bulk of the training was in the National Guard camps where a total of 156,515 men and officers were in attendance. The turnout of organized reserves amounted to s. 705, of whom all but 492 were of- fcers. The Reserve Officers Train ing Corps contributed 7.012 to the grand total and the Citizens Mill tary Training Camps, 33,0S3 bring ing the total number of men to be graduated from these camps since they were first established on a postwar basis up to 10000.
 Officers Reserve Corps
 Of particular importance in the summer training to tlfe new na- tional defense policy is the annual product of the reserve officers training corps and the civilian mili- tary training camps in second lieu tenants for the maintenance of the Officers Reserve Corps. These two branches of the training establish ment afford practically the only source for replacements and new blood for the reserve officers or ganlzation, which now numbers S2,24o men on war department rolls.
 It has been estimated that 10,- 900 young men must come into the corps annually as second lieuten- ants If 1t is to be kept at adequate strength and the reserve officers training corps is expected ut- mately to produce 1000 of these young reserve officers a year. the other 5000 to come from the cih- zen camps, regular army, national guard and other sources.
 There are in the colleges and schools of the country 325 units of the reserve officers training corps with a total enrolment at the close of the last school year of 103,S94 under training. From this source in the last five years up to September 4 of this year, a total of 9,817 second lieutenants had been commissioned in the reserve corps. The reports show that in the 29 civilian training camps held this year the attendance was the maximum which could be admitted and cared for with funds available to the war department for the pur- pose. The number actually at the camps, 33,9S3 for 30 days, was a big increase over last year, while the number of applications re- ceived amounted to 53,000. Of that number 44,O00 proved to have the physical and other qualifications necessary for admission, so that ap- proximately 10000 youngsters were disappointed in their hope to go through a training camp course last summer.
 Recruiting Shut Down
 Recruiting for the camps was shut down some weeks before the camps themselves were opened and it Is the judgment of officers in various corps areas in charge of the work that 75,00O applications at least would have been received except for this fact. The ultimate goal set in army plans for the training camps Is to put 100000 boys a year through the courses and from graduates who attend the camps for three successive years to draw e substantial number of re- cruits for the officers reserve corps to supplement the output of the re- serve officers training corps.
 IA A phase of the organized reserve corps work during the summer to which the war department attaches particular importance is the appli- cation for the first time of the prin- ciple of unit training to these or ganizations. Under that practice a very considerable number of reserve officers assigned to specific units of the organized reserve were given the opportunity to get together with their comrade officers of the same units and to function as team un- der their own officers in dealing with mobilization problems such as redeption, organization, equipment and preliminary training of the men they would command in war.
 Defense Day Test
 The defense day test, on the face of official reports from all over the country, served to bring out sharp ly the benefit of this unit training scheme, war department officials say. The striking success of that test, from a purely military point