Word: chief
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...training committee of the General Staff, War College Division, with a major-general at its head as director of training and special staff corps representatives, has been designated as the centre of instruction of troops in the United States and the direct representative of the Chief of Staff. Associated with the director of training and training committee are the British and French military attaches, Generals Maclachlan and Vignal, and officer specialists and advisers of both Allied Armies. The functions of the training committee are as follows: To maintain close relations with expeditionary forces abroad and with troops undergoing training...
...Members of the training committee will be required from time to time to visit the several cantonments and schools in order to keep the Chief of Staff informed concerning the practical workings of prescribed plans...
Applicants are accepted only for general service, and no men will be enrolled higher than chief petty officer. Those who enlist and remain in the seaman branches of the service will probably be used on the 110-foot scout boats, on transports, or on the convoy vessels of the Navy as soon as their period of training has come...
...recorded in the history of nations. It came, as in the present instance, at a moment when the enemy was winning successes in every country of Europe, when public opinion was discouraged, and ominous clamors for peace were being heard. But roused by the confidence and determination of their chief, English sailors won undying fame for England. Today in similar circumstances a new leader sounds a new call for action, and in all the Allied countries arise the hopes for a decisive and final blow. Under leaders who have combined military genius and the art of inspiring, the English have...
Drills are held Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from 3.30 until 4.30 o'clock. Lieutenant Greene is in command here, and C. Blum '18 is chief petty officer. All the work up to this time has been close order drill without arms, but next week the cadets will have the use of rifles...