Evening star., 1927-09-11
BY WILLIAM A. MILLEN.
! RMY oficers estimate that Uncle


A RMY officers estimate that Uncle
a sS e: sns' q %@S e SS s. s;ss
try this Summer. While 80,
656 saw service with the Citizens
Military Training Camps. officers de-
clare that $4,000 could have been
cared for had Congress appropriated
funds for that number. Every State
having a National iuard-and this
means all but Nevada--had their of.
fieers and men in training for 15-day
period, accounting for about 1S5, 900.
the largest single group under canvas
and wearing khaki this season. Or.
ganized Reserves took training, some
$4,000 Of them, and the Reserve Off.
GERS Training Corps had about 1000
on active duty.
Meanwhile the Navy has been busy
training its reservists and has been
holding cruises on the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts. as well as on the Great
Lakes and in Hawaii. Men to the
number Of 1000 have thus had the
value Of discipline. Destroyers and
eagle boats have been used in this
work.
In SO Camps.
In So camps all over the country
the citizen soldiers were put through
their oaces. The majority of them
were students. but all walks of life
were represented in the four courses
basic. red. white and blue. Up to July
81. 67,i27a applications for the camps
had been received, but as Congress
had made provision for only $4,000 the
War Department was forced to econo.
mize rigidly to get 1856 trained.
About $3s000.000 Is appropriated now
for this work.
Regular Army posts and canton.
ments built during the war are uti-
lized. although at Del Monte. Calf, a
big tent camp accommodating 1900
trainees is on ground rented for a
nominal sum. Camps Devens and
Knox, which normally have but a
caretaking detachment, are brought
into use during the warm weather to
teach military duties. The camps last
for 80 days, running from June to
September. The Army is finding that
business houses are giving increased
cooperation, some giving as much
concession as IS days leave and 15
days pay to those attending the
camps. Colleges are likewise assist.
ing. giving scholarships for Citizens
Military Training Camp work and al
lowing credits. The location of these
camps is determined by each corps
area commander. taking into con-
siderati> enconomy Of transportation
and other factors.
In Washington Area.
Camp Meade, Nd, was not used this
year as a c. NJ. T. c. rendezvous, but
at Camp Humphreys, Va, % ad-
vanced engineering students took the
blue course. In the Sd Corps Area,
In which Washington is located, pro.
vision was made for training $50 in
the basic course and 425 in the ad-
vanced Infantry course at Fort Eus-
tis, Va, while at Fort Howard, Nd.
3ss In the basic and 165 in the ad-
vanced Infantry courses were the fig
ures; at Fort Hoyle, Nd, 400 in the
Field Artillery basic and 200 in the ad-
vanced courses: at Fort Myer, Va,
200 in the Cavalry course, and at Fort
Washington. 335 in the basic and 165
in the advanced Infantry courses.
Signal Corps candidates were trained
in Fort Monmouth, n. J.
National Guard training was given
at nearly 100 different points through
out the country, and included duty for
Is observation sQuadrons with heav-
ier.than-air machines. This period,
too. lasted from June to September,
but in 1s-day stretches. Large camps
1OF Guafu6IneN are located at camp
Devens, Mass; Fort Wright, N. Y;
Fort Ontario, N. Y; Peekskill, N. Y.
tCamp Smith); Pine Camp. N. Y: Sea
Girt, n. j.; Camp Albert c. Ritchie,
Blue Ridge Summit, Md; Mount Gret.
ma, Pa; Tobyhanna, Pa: Camp Nc
Ctellan, Ala; Fort Oglethorpe, Ca;
Fort Bragg, n. c.; Camp Knox. KY;
Camp Perry, Ohio, and others in the
West.
Reports Filing In.
Organized Reserves from various
parts of the country are called to
duty, from time to time, in the War
Department, and those doing active
duty in the field are largely officers
also. Air Corps men from this area
are trained at Boiling Field. Carlisle
Barracks, Pa, where many physicians
train. and Fort Eustis, Va, are large
training centers in this corps area for
the Organized Reserves, with the En-
gfneers training at Fort Humphreys.
The Reserve Offlcers Training Corps
college men who are slated to get
commissions later-in this section of
the country underwent their Summer
schooling for the most part at Car.
Isle Barracks, Fort Humphreys and
Camp Meade, with the Cavalry being
trained at Fort Myer.
Reports on all these activities are