Word: riley
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ride and train horses this summer. Twenty head of horses are now at the Commonwealth Armory. These vary in the amount of training they have had from absolutely unbroken remounts to highly trained chargers who were originally selected to be sent to the Mounted Service School at Fort Riley, Kansas, where the best army horses in the world are trained. The instruction which will be given by Major Miller and Captain Dick will be entirely free. There will be no liability for future enrolment in the R. O. T. C. nor will the instruction be offered as part...
...will give as full an outline as the time permits of the plans for the Field Artillery Unite here next fall, laying especial emphasis on the course in equitation, which will be modeled after that of the Service School of Equitation at Fort Riley, Kansas. Colonel Goetz will also explain a special ruling which has been made by the College Office whereby Freshman may arrange to elect the course for next year by changing their study cards before the close of College this term...
...Service be concentrated at those camps which have been regarded as specially adapted for training in a particular line of Army service. He suggested that the officers intended for service with Infantry be trained at Fort Leavenworth; those who were to be assigned to the Cavalry at Fort Riley; and the Artillery student officers be assigned to Fort Sill...
...opinion regarding the recommendation and it has been pointed out by other general officers that the posts which have been suggested by General Morrison lack sufficient equipment and space for the numbers of men who, it is expected, will be sent to the camps. It is said that Fort Riley, for example, is now filled to its capacity with men who are taking the training course for the medical branch of the Service. It is asserted that the capacity of the other two camps mentioned will not exceed 6,000 and if the ratio of graduates is approximately the same...
...Avlation, 61 National Guard, 29 Naval Reserve, 72 Regular Army, 9 Signal Corps, 26 Other branches of Federal Service, 47 Discharged to enter first Officers' Training Camps: Fort Benjamin Harrison, 5 Fort Des Moines, 3 Fort Meyer, 5 Fort Niagara, 11 Fort Oglethorpe, 8 Plattsburg, 224 Presidio, 6 Fort Riley, 4 Fort Logan H. Roots, 3 Fort Snelling, 2 Fort Sheridan, 9 Other Federal Camps...