Word: commander
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...going to be platoon leaders, and it is up to you now to learn every detail of your future job so that your command will first respect you for your knowledge and ability: and then love you for your care of them...
...appointed time the two companies of infantry will be drawn up in reserve on the road west of the Fresh Pond Reservation, Captain F. Parkman '19 commanding the first and Captain A. H. Bright '19 the second company. They will move up on the system of trenches above Command Post Ridge, assumed to be hastily built, where they will relieve a battalion, occupy the first line and attack at once in two waves in a direction west-east...
...exact form of their service, the University summer camp offers the best solution. As R. O. T. C. men they have already started their military preparation, and they will be most useful where they can continue this work. They will be given many chances for positions of command and responsibility, the best way to learn efficient leadership. In fact it is necessary for the success of the camp to have as instructors well-trained...
...maples, lie six thousand of Canada's bravest sons, her first contribution in the Great War to the defence of the mother country. And now on the slopes about the shell-torn city stand England's own sons, gathered in the divisions of England's volunteer and conscript army. Commanders may debate the strategic value of the city as they did at Verdun, but the events of the last two weeks prove that if it is evacuated it will not be because of the defection of the British soldiers. Regardless of the loss of the Passchendaele Ridge before the city...
Under the command of Captain Alexander Kendall, U. S. A., from Camp Devens, the men selected for this intensive preparation for the Fourth Camp will begin work at once. Drills will be held either in the morning or afternoon, and the rest of the day will be devoted, during the coming week, to studying for the final examinations. All men taking the training will be excused from classes after their acceptance for the military work. By spending most of their time in training, the men will be enabled to make up the required 300 hours of instruction called...