Word: similarly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Such a system as now exists in the Argentina Republic can be worked in the United States. My country is in a thousand ways exactly similar to this, and I see no reason why the same general laws that are of use there should not be workable here. Argentina, like the United States today, was faced with the problem of getting volunteers to enlist in the army. She had the regular army and militia system now prevailing in the United States...
Another series of Reserve Officers' Training Camps, similar to the number already formed, may be established by the Government in August. A statement to this effect has been made public by Captain A. F. Cosby, of the Military Training Camps Association. Men who were eligible, but were not selected for any of the first camps will have an opportunity to make application for the new series of corps. It will not be necessary for those who contemplate attendance at the second camps to send in their applications now, as due announcement will be given regarding when the new reserve corps...
...company has been formed in connection with those which the Navy and War Departments have instructed the Red Cross to organize. The work performed by it will be similar to that of the American Ambulance Field Service except that the wounded will not merely be transported from the front but will also be taken care of at the hospitals. Although the company may, either as whole or in part, be required to man hospital trains, hospital ships, or if the need is great, the emergency hospitals, it will be used mainly to furnish transportation for and to give first...
...least 18 ambulances, two supply trucks, and one repair truck. The men will probably be taken to France within two months and it is expected that they will be transferred to any American troops that may go to the front. The work of the company will be similar to that performed by the American Ambulance Field Service except that the wounded will be taken care of as well as transported from the front...
...will be devoted to military instruction. The schedule is most comprehensive and the training will be thorough in every re- spect. It will include besides instruction in the School of the Soldier, Squad, Company, Battalion and Regiment, the actual construction of trenches, bomb proofs, machine gun positions, etc., similar to those actually used by the French Army on the western front; and also gallery and target practice, bayonet fencing, field exercises, practice marches and manoeuvres. A large corps of topographical instructors have been added to the military department, and each cadet will be taught how to make road, position...