Word: increments
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...second series of officers training camps will be held between August 27 and November 26 in order to develop officers for the second increment of 500,000 men of the new army, Adjutant General McCain announced in an official statement Saturday. The number of camps has been reduced to eight, in place of the 16 that are now training officers for the first 500,000. There will be no Plattsburg in the second series. The sites for the fall camps being for the most part in the south on account of climatic considerations. In general, qualifications for admission to these...
...enrolment will be announced later. It was found impossible, owing to the large amount of preparation necessary before new men can be examined and enlisted, to start the work of forming the new companies in the few days left before College breaks up. The instruction for the new increment will start on May 7, when the entire Corps is to go into intensive training...
...instruction for the new increment of students will commence...
...first increment of five hundred thousand volunteers will doubtless be asked for within a short time. The method of raising this first army is the difficult problem that Congress will have to solve. When the need of trained men is so apparent as it is now, the great value of a system of universal military training is brought home with great emphasis. If this country had introduced such a system ten years ago the Government would not be confronted with a situation it is totally unprepared to cope with. Enough men would be under arms now to form the first...
...question before Congress is a more difficult and intricate one. The proper solution will result in this first increment being a democratic, fair selection from the large numbers of our young men, which will go out as a democratic contribution from a great democracy to aid in restoring the freedom and privileges of democracy to the suffering people of a stern autocracy...