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...needless to comment on the Plattsburg plan of supplying men trained in times of peace who are able to serve as officers in any emergency. Too many of us know from experience the complete success of the plan to warrant a repetition or details. To the men who conceived the Plattsburg idea and put it into execution the country is greatly indebted. At the present time there is a feeling that one emergency just past precludes the possibility of another for ages to come; that even if this is doubtful, there are enough trained war veterans to take care...
...PLATTSBURG BARRACKS...
...doubtful, in peace-time, without the incentive of a rapidly approaching war, such as was the case in 1915 when the Plattsburg camps were at their height, if any great number of citizens can be found, who are desirous of receiving military instruction. The proposed camps, however, will furnish an opportunity, at least, for men of sufficient ability, who have been unable to obtain a college education, to receive training that will qualify them to be officers in case of another war in the future...
...Camp Devens, Mass; 2, Camp Dix, N. J., or Plattsburg. N. Y., or both; 3, Camp Meade, Md,; 4, Camp Jackson, S. C.; 5, Camp Knox, Ky., or Camp Sherman, O., or both; 6, Camp Grant, III., or Fort Sheridan. III...or both; 7. Fort Snelling, Minn., and Camp Pike, Ark,; 8. Fort Logan, Col., and Camp Travis, Tox., or Camp Stanley, Tex.; 9, the Presidio of San Francisco, and Camp Lewis, Wash...
Prior to the entry of the United States into the war most of the members went to Plattsburg, and, when the United States entered the war, 95 percent of them received commissions. It was this organization which furnished most of the officers for the 101st and 102nd regiments...