Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a total enrollment of 30, 35 veterans and 45 civilian students, College ROTC under the command of Col. Mark McClure, USA, is in the process or returning to a peacetime four-year course ending in a commission in the Army Reserve Corps...
...effort to increase interest in ROTC, a bill is now pending before Congress which will, in its present form, provide men in the elementary course with $20 per month subsistance and all equipment. This bill will also give men in advanced courses a $20 subsistance allowance plus $1.25 per diem for uniforms. The plan is almost certain of passage, according to McClure, since it is supported by President Truman and the Military Affairs Committee in both Houses of Congress...
McClure expects approximately 200 men to enroll in ROTC this fall. These men will have the use of much new equipment in addition to that already in use, according to War Department plans. More motorized units, heavy cannon, and possibly self-propelled field pieces and a light observation plane will be added to the mortars, rifles, machine guns, and engineer and single equipment now on hand...
...rooms at Dunster are relatively small, which will require exclusive use of double bunks in order to increase the present 240 men to 350. Kirkland will expand from 250 to about 375; while Eliot, which will be returned to the University from the Naval ROTC next fall, will accommodate 450 instead of its customary...
Commanded by Colonel Frank L. Purdon, the Army Training Schools included eight separate units. The Field Artillery and the short-lived Quartermaster ROTC's were discontinued during...