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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...giving the entire command to the Commandant, an assistant to the Commandant, and the Regimental Adjutant. The latter position is to be filled during the summer by Major C. C. Lane, long associated with the Corps and probably more familiar with its present needs than any other one man. Lieutenant Morize is expected to act in the capacity of Assistant to the Commandant, and will have direct charge of the field training of he regiment. Final details of the new organization will be announced in a special edition of the CRIMSON to be published next week...
...subject to draft, a man applies to the headquarters at Camp Monroe and on receiving the necessary papers, goes to his local board and is ordered to report to the Artillery School...
...man not registered has two ways of applying for the course. The best way is to go to Fort Monroe and enlist there. He will then be assigned to a special company in the Coast Artillery School and transfered to the training camp when it opens. The other way is to enlist in the Coast Artillery at any recruiting station and apply for transfer to the camp at Fort Monroe. Men doing this, however, will not be transfered by their commanding officer unless they show unusual ability...
...outbreak of the war, listened to stories published in our newspapers telling of the superiority of one American doughboy to countless numbers of Germans. Yesterday we learned from one of the daily papers that the Americans on the Marne slaughtered one thousand enemy troops and lost but one man. All of which is cheering news, but somewhat ridiculous, and very few educated people can be expected to take much stock in such exaggerated reports...
...would reach their front, and they sneered at the notion of a million Americans in France. To them it seemed impossible that a draft army and an army of volunteers could vie with the Kaiser's trained men. We have not as yet completely proved that the American Army, man for man, is the equal of the German troops, but we are decidedly on the right track. At Seicheprey, at Cantigny, and on the Marne "we met the enemy and they were ours." This is no cause for boasting: the German offensive has for overshadowed the tiny dents we have...