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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...23rd of July the command proceeded by train to Barre, Mass., where three weeks were spent in camp. Wall tents were secured from the National Guard for the staff and company officers, but the rank and file live in shelter tents. The weather was fortunately dry and little inconvenience was experienced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: R. O. T. C. TRAINING COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY AT BARRE | 9/21/1917 | See Source »

...Troop A of Squadron A, of the New York National Guard, Cavalry, that 50 per cent of its members have been discharged to fill vacancies at Plattsburg. There are opportunities for any men of military experience who apply at once. Applications should be made to T. S. Farrelly, 60 Wall street, New York City...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Enlistment Opportunities Open | 6/16/1917 | See Source »

...Stadium was the scene of the third annual rally of the Boy Scouts of Greater Boston Saturday afternoon when over 5,000 scouts, representing 11 districts and 42 cities and towns took part in a series of events ranging from wall-scaling to lighting a fire without matches. Fully 20,000 parents and friends of the scouts were present in the big amphitheatre to witness the exhibition which showed the unusual efficiency of the boys in first aid, woodcraft, and self-reliance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 5,000 IN GREAT SCOUT RALLY | 6/11/1917 | See Source »

...Wakefield the men will sleep under canvas in wall tents formerly used by the militia, and will serve, and to a large extent prepare, their own meals. The details for pit duty will also be taken from the various companies. Captain Shannon will be in complete charge of the encampment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WORK ON RANGE BEGINS | 6/4/1917 | See Source »

...right and platoons-left-front-into-line-double-time-march has taken second place to the more exacting sport of rushing imaginary trenches under an imaginary "hail of death" (as the war correspondents always describe it). The cinder-heaps are hills, the grass is forests, the fence is a wall of China, and the whole land is "terrain." A man may be a squad, a squad a company, and a company a regiment. In such Lilliputian measure do we play at war, seeing how armies move and battles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "PLAYIN SOJER" | 5/19/1917 | See Source »

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