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...Department at the Army War College in Washington today with the Army General Staff for discussion of military courses to be organized in institutions desiring to take advantage of provisions of the army reorganization law. It will also be debated how the greatest benefit can be derived from Plattsburg and similar military camps...
...United States Army in those institutions. They will meet at the Army War College in Washington Tuesday for discussion with the Army General Staff of military courses to be organized in colleges and universities. It will also be debated how the greatest benefic can be obtained from Plattsburg and other military camps...
...least necessity exists for Plattsburg graduates to forfeit 10 per cent. of the money the government now owes them. A shower of circulars from claim agents in Washington gives the contrary impression. The facts are these: Congress has appropriated sufficient money to reimburse every man who attended Plattsburg this summer for all his expenses at camp, and for his transportation there and back. The Military Training Camps Association is now engaged in obtaining this money from the War Department, and will see that each man receives his due without paying a cent in commission. The claim agents in Washington...
...wrought many changes in our life. Our classmates have gone in the ambulance service. We have worked during the summer in munitions plants or have attended a Plattsburg Camp. It has caused a fundamental economic change in the relation of our country to the gold market of the world. Yet, baldly stated, has it brought in its train anything more marvelous than the introduction of Venus for anatomical study...
...case of need, I fully believe that the men with the practical training of Plattsburg and the Regiment would make officers infinitely superior, both inorganizing ability and power in leadership, to the manifestly serious but purely theoretical students of Military Science and Tactics 1. HOWARD B. SPRAGUE...