Word: combat
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...October he went overseas with it. Shortly after his arrival in France he was selected by General Pershing to organize and conduct the Personnel Bureau of the American Expeditionary Forces. In accepting this important position, he sacrificed his great desire to serve with the front line combat troops...
...infantry drill and warfare and the liason between infantry and other branches of the service. Lieutenant Morize of the French Mission had charge of instruction in the new formations and dispositions for attack and defense. On August 8 the Corps carried out its final manoeuvre on the Camp Devens combat ground before General Crozier and President Lowell. At Cambridge a review took place for Brigadier-General Ruckman...
...clock this afternoon the University R. O. T. C. will carry out its last combat exercise of the term at Fresh Pond before visiting representatives of college R. O. T. C.'s who are holding a conference at the University today. The Regiment will fall in at 3.30 for the exercises. Following the maneuver there will be a regimental parade below the trenches at Fresh Pond. The workout of the corps this afternoon will be the last of the R. O. T. C. as a unit, and will serve as a final review before dissolution of the regiment...
Immediately after the combat exercise the regimental parade will take place under the command of Captain G. A. Brownell '19, and the corps will march back to Cambridge by the usual route...
...conclusion of combat exercises the Regiment will form in line of masses for parade to the east of barb wire entanglements, and facing Fresh Pond...