Word: shannon
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Captain James A. Shannon has been made a major in his own regiment, the 11th Cavalry, but has been assigned to the 42nd, or "Rainbow," Division, at Camp Mills, Mineola, L. I. He is second in command of the divisional ammunition, sanitary, supply, and headquarters trains, and is in charge of the military police companies. There are three vacancies in those companies, which are later to see line service, and there is an opportunity for members of the R. O. T. C. to fill them. The Rainbow Division, which is composed of former national guard troops from 24 states, will...
...Monday, May 7, the period of intensive training began. Previous to that time drill had been held nine hours a week. For a month the work consisted of close and open order drill, gallery practice, and bayonet instruction under the supervision of Captains Cordier, Shannon and Bowen, and Sergeants Bender, Boyd, Brown, Kennedy and Lynch of the regular army. Gradually the officers of the French Mission--Lieutenant-Colonel Paul Azan, Major de Reviers de Mauny, Captain Adolph Dupont, Lieutenant Andre Morize, and Lieutenant Jean Giraudoux--took the regiment in hand and began the instruction in French open order formations...
...Pell, Q. A. Shaw, R. C. Clement, D. B. Hull, C. F. Zukoski, F. E. Billings, F. C. Fishback, W. K. McKittrick, M. H. Bailey, J. J. Caffrey, J. M. Green, F. L. Nosworthy, E. W. Woodward, S. Rinehart, C. C. Curtis, C. S. Gaynor. JAMES A. SHANNON, Captain, U. S. Army, Assistant Commandant...
Captain Cordier will probably leave for Washington on Friday to take up his duties as a member of the General Staff of the Army. Captain Bowen will not be obliged to go until some time later, and events of the past few days indicate that Captain Shannon will be continued here until the end of the summer...
...great measure of honor due to the success of the corps. But this honor is only increased when it is remembered that the corps is not going to die simply because those who are now at its head are to leave. The influence of Captains Cordier, Bowen, and Shannon is a permanent one. They go with the best of military ideas instilled into their successors and the men who have worked under them. A schedule of training is to be followed which can do nothing but assure to every man a completely satisfactory training. The departure of these regular army...