Word: missions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Commandant, the officers of the French Military Mission, Reserve Officers detailed to duty with the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, tactical instructors, other instructors with relative rank, aides, and all cadet officers (captains and lieutenants) will be accorded when in uniform the courtesies prescribed in paragraphs 758-765, Infantry Drill Regulations. Cadet non-commissioned officers (sergeants and corporals) are not saluted except as prescribed in paragraph 172, Infantry Drill Regulations, or in formations where the non-commissioned officer receives reports for the officer in charge. All cadets should, however, stand at attention when addressed by or addressing a non-commissioned officer...
...evening, members of the "mission" gave a series of lectures on trench warfare, based on the book by Cok Azan, treating the various phases of the subject. Patterson, who had received training in the Yale Battery at New Haven, spoke on the uses and importance of modern artillery...
...equivalent amount of training elsewhere. There will probably be no section meetings but there will be at least two lectures a week on advanced subjects, assuming a knowledge of American military organization and tactics but more particularly of the similar French organizations as taught by the French Mission during the summer. The course will be progressive in that use will be made of all previous information the students may possess. The lectures will also come in the evening, the 1.30 hour being discontinued as in the elementary course. The practical work for the advanced students will be three hours...
Captain Andre D. Dupont, the artillery officer detailed with the French Mission at the University Reserve Officers' training camp in Cambridge the past summer, has been detailed for duty at Yale during a part of the fall term. Arrangements have also been made that Captain Dupont, in conjunction with his lectures to be delivered here at the University will visit Yale from time to time throughout the whole year and give advice regarding the artillery instruction that will be offered there...
There will be a short military mass meeting in the New Lecture Hall tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock at which the military plans for the coming year will be discussed and explained. President Lowell, Lieutenant Morize and other members of the French Mission, as well as certain officers of the R. O. T. C. will be present and will address the meeting. It is anticipated that the entire Freshman class and every remaining member of the three upper classes will attend...