Word: signal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Both the Signal Corps and the Motor Transport Corps have applied for permission to establish R. O. T. C. units at the University. This was announced yesterday by Colonel Goetz, who added that it was improbable that any other that an artillery unit will be a established here. In addition the War Department has announced its intention of establishing aeronautic units of the R. O. T. C. at all colleges and universities which apply for one. The college instruction, which will be a three-year course, is to be only in ground work, the technical side of aviation, which would...
Lieutenant Gustav Hermann Kissel '16, a flight pilot attached to the Royal Air Force, who has been missing since April 12, 1918, is now reported as killed in action. He enlisted in May as a private in the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps, completed the course at M. I. T., and went to France the following July for further training. After two months, he was ordered to England, where he received a commission...
...statistical comparison of war records, the University leads Yale throughout, excepting in the College Naval Unit, where Yale led by 115. Yale claims the only College Field Artillery School, the largest College Naval Unit, the first. American Mobile Hospital, and the only Training School for Signal Corps Officers, Army Hospital Laboratory, and Chemical Warfare Service...
Under the new plan, infantry units will be sent to several of the big cantonments; field artillery students will report to Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky., and Coast Artillery Cadets will be sent to Fortress Munroe, Va. Students taking courses in signal work and aviation will be sent to the infantry manoeuvre camps for divisional instruction...
...Committee on Education and Special Training have already received applications from more than 300 schools and colleges for the establishment of R. O. T. C. Units. Authorization has been given the committee for clothing arms, and ammunition for 100,000 students. Adequate artillery, ordnance, signal supplies and other war materials are being furnished by the War Department...