Word: signal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...work of the signal men is hard but exceedingly interesting and instructive every minute...
...present time the men who are joining are enlisted in the Reserve Corps and it is planned to organize a radio class for the Signal Corps at Harvard, and the Harvard men who join will be for the present detailed to that school for instructions...
...Very few people know about the character or the service performed by the Signal Corps. A country might have a very efficient and large army, but if the signal corps was neglected, the other branches would operate under an almost impossible handicap. Brigadier-General George P. Scriven has aptly termed the signal corps 'the nerve system of the army...
...absence in order to join the ambulance service in France. The greater part of this number are enrolled in the American Ambulance Field Service, but some have joined the Norton-Harjes Ambulance. Seven men are enlisted in the aviation service, some in the Aviation Section of the Reserve Officers' Signal Corps, and some in the training school at Squantum. Several others are on the reserve list of this school and expect to get called at any time. Four men from 1920 are in the United States Secret Service and six are enlisted in state militias...
Pennsylvania, aside from the Regiment, is taking active part in several other divisions of military service. A signal corps divided into three sections, wireless, wig-wagging and semaphore code word, has been formed; 60 students are enrolled for special training in aviation; a base hospital unit has been formed by Dr. Edward Martin; 41 gymnasium leaders have volunteered for special training and will become instructors for the conditioning of the raw recruits; about 150 men have joined the Naval Reserve; a machine gun corps is being trained, and enlistments have begun for farm and industrial service. The profits...