Word: trenches
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...country from every able-bodied man without pay. Soldiers in the present national army of the United States receive one dollar a day as pay, in addition to being completely found by the government. Considering what the modern soldier has to do and bear in trench warfare, in bayonet and hand grenade assaults and in storming towns and cities from the air, the idea of a man's doing it for pay is absolutely revolting. No worthy soldier does it or would do it for pay. He does and endures the horrible things required of him from a sense...
...matter not only of national honor but of stern necessity, to maintain a trained fighting force as an instrument of defense in time of war. Our nation may count itself fortunate for being saved from huge losses of men and material by the three years' experience in trench warfare imparted to us by the French and British troops...
...routine will not suffice--that is quite certain. The man who has become accustomed to nose-dives or trench-raids will be hard to satisfy. He will refuse to give his interest and energy to anything which is not obviously and unmistakably vital...
...Lieutenant-Colonel W. B. Cameron, attached to the research department of the Army Central Laboratories at Dijon; Lieutenant-Colonel R. C. Cabot '90, member of the staff of Massachusetts General Base Hospital No. 6 stationed at Bordeaux; and Lieutenant-Colonel R. P. Strong, chairman of the Committee on Trench Fever, whose work in this connection was one of the great medical contributions of the war. Colonel Strong is now detached from the Army and has succeeded Colonel Alexander Lambert as chief of the Department of Research and Intelligence of the American Red Cross...
...Many of these men will be enrolled in the school of Military Aeronautics and the new Paymasters' School instituted by the Navy, where instruction will be given exclusively by officers detailed by the Army and Navy Departments. As the university possesses particular facilities in the matter of rifle ranges, trench systems, dormitories, and large new dining halls where men can be fed and housed in large groups there has been a great rush of applicants and the quotas of all units are now filled...