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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Congressional action, a sanitary reserve of the United States Public Health Service has been created. This act, known as Senate Joint Resolution 63, was approved by the President October 27, 1918. Under the new law sanitarians, sanitary engineers, chemists, bacteriologists, public health officials, may be commissioned and given equal rank and grade with medical men in the service. This will make it possible to solidify the sanitary officers of the country into an organization which can be immediately mobilized in case of any national emergency. There will be opportunity in this service for young men qualified in sanitary engineering...
...immediately sent to the Philippine Islands, where he remained until after the capture of Manila and the cessation of hostilities. After the war Lieutenant De Groot remained in the army, and was commissioned second lieutenant in the 28th Infantry in May, 1917. He was promoted to his present rank in August, 1917, but whether he was in France at that time or not is not yet known, because the date of sailing of his unit has been kept secret...
...Technology at Atlanta, Georgia, as commanding officer of that unit. In October, when the S. A. T. C. was established there, he was made commandant of that organization in addition to other duties, and held that position until his recent transfer to Harvard. He received his promotion to the rank of major last August...
...break of the Spanish-American war, when he was only 18, he enlisted as a private in the Massachusetts National Guard, and served during the war in Cuba. As a result of this, he was commissioned first lieutenant in the National Guard in 1909, and held that rank until his regiment became part of the regular army in March...
Lieutenant-Colonel Wm. F. Flynn, who was commandant of the Harvard R. O. T. C. last year and last summer, has received his promotion from the rank of major. He is at present assigned as commandant of the S. A. T. C. of the State Agricultural College at Storrs, Connecticut...