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Major General Leonard Wood, M.D. '84, LL.D. '99, chief-of-staff of the United States army, delivered an address on "The Military Policy of the United States" in the 'Living Room of the Union last evening. General Wood outlined a plan for a military reserve in this country along the lines of the system now in force in Switzerland. There, every citizen is given two years of military service with the colors, and after that period of instruction is dismissed. By this means a reserve of 250,000 to 300,000 men is kept constantly on hand...
Major-General Leonard Wood, M.D. '84, LL.D. '99, chief-of-staff of the United States Army will speak on "The Military Policy of the United States" in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8.15 o'clock. Major-General Wood is the advocate "not of militarism but of common-sense preparedness" and has lately been busy with a plan for an army reserve...
...Congressional Medal of Honor "for distinguished conduct in a campaign against Apache Indians while serving as medical and line officer of Captain Lawton's expedition in 1886." Since then he has been appointed major-general U. S. A. (1903), commander of the Department of the East (1908); and chief-of staff...
Major General Wood, who is now chief-of-staff in the United States Army, has been connected with the Army since 1886, when he was made an assistant surgeon. In the year 1898, at the time of the Spanish War, he was given the position of commanding colonel of a volunteer regiment of "Rough Riders"; later he was advanced for exceptional services at San Juan Hill to brigadier general of volunteers...
Since then he has been given various positions in the regular Army, being made major-general in 1903, and chief-of-Staff...