Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-01-22
WALTER WINCHELL is on a tour Of
duty outside Continental U. S. During his
absence. contributors will substitute.

The Cadets learned and were do
ing everything thoroughly trained
enlisted man ought to be able to do,
and before the Summer was over,
they looked like veterans.
Summer maneuvers don't end the
story of tough training at West Point.
Summer maneuvers are just phase
of the year-round program which is
built to train fighting leaders.
Every minute of the 16-hour day
e a. m. to 10 p. n.y. is filled by a
tight schedule of instruction, study,
and athletics plus tactical training
in the arms and branches of the
Service. The program is designed
to turn out officers schooled in all
types of army operation, and each
Cadet is familiarized with the use of
every weapon from the pistol to the
airplane.
So one can see the West Pointer
is TOUGH-physically and mentally.
He has to be.
At the close of the Summer, the
Cadets came back into the class
rooms for what we call academies.
During the Winter months emphasis
is placed upon academic instruction
while the schedule in tactical train
ing is somewhat reduced.
A reporter probably would say
that we have highly mathematical
and stiff engineering course. Per-
haps that is right, but the West Point
curriculum aims at teaching a man
to think, to reason, and to draw
sound conclusions expressed clearly
and concisely. Mathematics and the
sciences provide this training of the
mind which we believe is so essen
tial in order to produce the finest
military leaders.
am happy to announce that this
week the West Point instruction is
being given first-hand inspection
by some of the leading educators in
our country. l have invited Doctor
Compton, President of the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology, and
Doctor Hopkins, President of Dart
mouth, along with the principal mill
tary experts on training in our Army
today, Major General Bull of the Re-
placement Training Center of the
Ground Forces, Brigadier Huebner
of the Training Division of the Serv-
ices of Supply, Brigadier General
Edwards of the Training Division of
the War Department General Staff,
and Colonel Schlatter of the Flying
Training Command of the Army Air
Forces, to meet, confer and review
our plans for the new 3-year course
at the Military Academy. With this
course we propose to produce a
graduate of West Point who will have
the finest education and training
it is possible to afford in the time
available. By constantly keeping
abreast of the latest developments,
we aim to do the job which America
and Americans have asked US to do.
In the days of Robert E. Lee and
U. S. Grant, West Point produced
men to meet the challenge of that
task in the days of the Kaiser.
During the past Summer over 1000
West Pointers went through the most
rigorous field maneuvers that have
been held in the history of the Acad-
envy. Every phase of combat train
ing was given the Cadets. They
worked, they sweated, they maneu-
vered over the hills and through the
rivers of northwest New York State,
as well as here at West Point. They
had good taste of how modern
campaigns are fought.
During these maneuvers some OF
the toughest combat problems were
carried out by the Cadets.