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...camp, which is under government supervision, is conducted on a semi-military basis, and is to field artillery what Plattsburg is to infantry. Harvard and Yale are together at this camp merely because they happen to be in the same corps area...
...surgeon, carved his niche in history as an administrator. When Military Governor of Cuba he led the fight to stamp out yellow fever, put a turbulent island in order, ready for independence in 1902. When Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army he became the "Father of Plattsburg, " the creator of civilian military training camps, a staunch friend of "preparedness...
Later, he did reconstruction work at the Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D. C., trained officers at Plattsburg...
...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...