Word: commandment
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...last few years. When the General was sent to Funston we were chagrined; we had expected that he would be one of the first to lead American troops in France. We were disappointed there; instead of going abroad with one of the Regular Army divisions General Wood was given command of Camp Funston and charged with training forty thousand civilians into soldiers. In so doing he used some of our last year's R. O. T. C. graduates to teach French open order to his officers. In such little ways and by countless others General Wood built up his division...
...field exercise was executed with more precision than any previous maneuver this year. Under Captains F. Parkman '19 and G. C. Barclay '19, the Regiment went through the exercise of approach and debouchement and then paraded under the command of Captain G. A. Brownell...
...exercise, the regiment will be formed into two new American companies under the command of Captains F. Parkman '19 and G. C. Barclay '19. At the appointed time the two companies will be drawn up on the road west of the Fresh Pond Reservation. They will move up to the system of trenches above Command Post Ridge and debouch in two waves to attack the enemy trenches. They will put into practice the latest methods of advancing from shell-hole to shell hole under fire as explained recently by Colonel Azan...
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...
Instruction at the camp, which is known to the War Department as the Plattsburg R. O. T. C. Camp, will be confined mainly to fundamental military training in Infantry. During the work it will be the purpose of the training course to teach all the cadets how to command in various capacities and for this purpose the system of rotation among officers and non-commissioned officers, such as that used in the present University corps, will be enforced at Plattsburg...