Word: funston
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Dates: during 1917-1917
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Gorgas reports the plumbing often defective, no base hospitals completed except at Funston, and winter overcoats issued to only a small number of men. The report reads like an account of the Spanish-American War camps, where so many thousands were killed by disease. A repetition of those days seems impossible, but we must see to it that our camps are clean, that men are not sent in herds of six thousand to places where no one is ready for them, as recently occurred at New Rochelle. The nation is willing to give its manhood up to face bullets...
...example of the excellence of the instruction given in the course here may be cited the splendid showing which the men who came from this R. O. T. C. made in Camp Funston. They gave lectures of surprising completeness and accuracy and, entirely held the attention of their audience...