Word: plattsburg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Later, he did reconstruction work at the Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D. C., trained officers at Plattsburg...
...Manhattan last week came Governor General Leonard Wood of the Philippine Islands. From Manhattan last week went 1,200 U. S. citizens, bound for the Citizens' Military Training Camp at Plattsburg, N. Y. Had General Wood visited the station to watch their departure, these citizen-soldiers might well have saluted him. For he is the father of the Plattsburg Idea; it is the result of his work that 53 Plattsburg-like camps will this summer give military training to some...
...some 25,000 men. The first two camps (one at Monterey, Calif., the other at Gettysburg, had a combined enrollment of 222 men, all college students. In 1914 there were 667 enrollments in four camps; in 1915 the number reached 1,066. In 1915 General Wood opened the Plattsburg Camp and extended the idea to include not only college boys but also businessmen. Plattsburg quickly became the centre of the military training camp idea, had more than 27,000 enrollments in 1917 before the U. S. entered the World War. With the U. S. actually in the conflict, Plattsburg-type...
...estimated that two-thirds of the line officers in the U. S. World War forces received their training through the Plattsburg Idea...
...self-sufficient unit which will be designated the "Munitions Battalion" for some obscure reason. Their station will be near Washington. At the end of their college term, they will be assembled and given an intensive military course until college reopens. Their training will be similar to that given at Plattsburg before...