Word: plattsburg
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Capt. Merriam enlisted in the Mass. National Guard in 1915, was commissioned a 2nd Lt. in the infantry O.R.C. May 15, 1917, attending the first Plattsburg officers' camp from May 15 to August 15, 1917, and was then commissioned as a captain of infantry. He served at Fort Devens for the duration of the war with the rank of Captain...
Clark, a graduate of the Harvard Law School, was a founder of the Plattsburg training camps in the First World War, and was one of the leaders of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies before the United States enforced this war. After studying similar acts in Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, Clark urged that such a law was needed for "moral reasons," as well as for practical necessity...
...ROTC spent a long and anxious week pondering their fate. Finally the War Department announced that ROTC training at Harvard would be given at least at the summer camp. Most of the men over 20 years old in the unit left to train in officers' camps of the Plattsburg type, while younger men continued to train at College...
Robert Porter Patterson, 51, a blunt, monkish onetime Federal Appeals Court judge, was doing K.P. duty in the Army reserve camp at Plattsburg the day he was appointed Assistant Secretary of War. In Washington he got an equally messy job: channeling the Army's swollen, muddied procurement program. He went to work in shirt sleeves, vest dangling, jaws chomping gum, his right arm working like a pump handle as he announced decisions. Soon he was promoted to Under Secretary. Judicial Bob Patterson's plodding, plugging methods have led him down many a blind alley. But they have also...
These Reserves, plus a large regular Army and a larger National Guard have obviated the need for large civilian officers training camps like Plattsburg in the last...