Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ambulance drivers. The service is only for emergencies, and it is understood that all men who enrol in this work will be expected to serve only in such cases. Men will be enlisted in the service as privates, but all will be given a chance to rise in rank by competitive examination after a short period of training...
...have seen service in military hospitals or as ambulanciers either in this country or abroad. Volunteers for this service will drill one hour each week without compensation, but when on active duty all members of the corps will be paid by the state, according to his rank, for time spent in the service...
Hold High Rank...
Among the 3,685 who have entered the Army, and of the 2,065 who have earned commissions, are several men of conspicuously high rank. Major General W. M. Wright, U. S. A., who is stationed at Camp Doniphan, Fort Sill, Okla., is a member of the class of 1884 S.; Brigadier General T. A. Bingham, Eng., U. S. A., in charge of the river and harbor works in the vicinity of New York City, graduated in 1876 with President Hadley, and Brigadier General W. W. Atterbury, N. A., director general of transportation, graduated with the class...
Leaders of troops are hose fitted by superior training, knowledge or genius for the position. So many years at a military institution or a certain rank in some training corps does not make anyone even a non-com. It is the experience gained in preparatory regiments, in addition to natural or acquired ability, that wins high positions. Because a cadet has graduated from the R. O. T. C. he will not reach his goal, but because he has fitted himself sufficiently to be superior to those whom he leads he will. Since the leaders are the best men possible, whoever...