Word: signal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...also announced yesterday that no further enlistments in the balloon division of the Army Signal Corps will be accepted. The War Department's quota of balloon pilots and observers has been filled and no more are needed at present. Another call may be issued later by department aeronautical officers...
This sort of thing is not happening every day in aviation, but it is happening there more frequently than in any other department. We know of a generally used signal among Teuton and Allied aviators to postpone a struggle until after they meet again. These men, after hours of manoeuvring for positions, will move their planes to signify calling off the duel until some other time and both sides, with the honor of good sportsmen, accept the signal. This takes us back to the age of joust and tourney, to a time when death in battle was no less horrible...
...Senior Class alone is represented in 30 different branches of war service. Among those included are: Officers' Reserve Corps, Naval Reserve, military and naval aviation, ambulance work, Signal Corps, Quartermaster and Paymaster Departments, Marine Corps, Y. M. C. A., food administration and anti-submarine work...
...aviation section of the Signal Officers' Reserve Corps is the corp d'elite of our army, all right. It advertises for "men of daring, men of ability, men with clear heads, men with keen eyes," between the ages of 19 and 30, "preferably under 25," who "must be able to pass a stringent examination covering eyes, ears, heart, lungs and sense of balance," and who possess a college education or its equivalent. Note that last word. You are passed at once on a college diploma if the physical tests are met, but, lacking a college record, you must have...
...four platoons were formed under the command of Lieutenants G. Baker '20, J. J. Caffrey '19, D. G. Foster '18, and C. E. Works '19. The platoon leaders led their men into the underbrush under the brow of the hill, whence they debauched at a run on a given signal. In the first attempt, the intervals were unsatisfactory, and the movement was repeated. The next time, the proper 50-yard intervals were maintained and the platoons rushed as far as the road in a close line of squad columns. Here they were reformed, and the advance towards the redoubt began...