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VGORDON EYLER Ca WILL ENTER WEST POINTnnFormer Confluence and Loysville Slrik young man former private in reg- 1 »r« ular army, gets coveted appoint- | boi mentWIDELY KNOWN HEREyi-Gordon. M. Eyler, formerly a pri- Ne. vate in the Regular Army, has been a ,^eadmitted to the United States Mili- ed tlt;n tary Academy at West Point, N. P°rtgr,}Y., and assigned to the Second a w‘r- Company in orders just issued by meP e, Maj. Gen. William R. Smith, superintendent .e,/-andTh ed b •*nicJEiEyler is an orphan and won his i- j appointment as a result of a com-se petitive examination for regular r°w soldiers. This is considered the most the n, difficult way to enter West Point, m •s’ as there are man ymore applicants j pres than vacancies and only men ob- j ware id taining the highest marks are ad- If Ac mitted. publnc| Prior to enlisting in June. 1927. lead Ice Eyler attended the high school of rese:S the Tressler Orphans’ Home, Loys- Thu e- ville, Pa., for two years and then posi 1jS the Confluence High School, where all ( en he did two years’ work in a year,|receiving a diploma. On enlisting in the Regular Army at Johnstown,Pa., he was assigned to the Headquarters Company of the Eighteenth Infantry and placed in the com-municaitons section.Soon after his enlistment, Eyler 0 applied for admission to the West j Point Preparatory School of the Second Corps Area, which is a cL school conducted at Fort Totten, I v N. Y., by recent West Point grad- pia uates for Regular Army enlisted i jea men who desire to enter the Mili- I era tary Academy. !toto After investigating Eyler’s record killt; in in civil life his application was ap- jati: lid, proved and in November, 1927, he m.rid started four months of intensive t__^in- study. Sinus trouble developed, j ( its however, and at the rigid physical it lay examination he was disqualified. toIn November, 1928, Eyler having * corrected the physical defect by an operation at the Fort Totten Hos-pital, again took the preparatory course and at the examination last -E. March he passed with high marks, j ( was Out of the entire Regular Army d :her who were eligible to take the test , only 26 were admitted.Eyler’s day starts at 5:30 each l7c morning with first call for reveille. ; : His day is almost entirely taken up willi with military drills, lectures, calis-W. thenics and athletics. Guard duty, tore,! rifle marksmanship and bayonet ►rive j training are all included in the s lults schedule of the first month pre- _f scribed by Lieut. Col. R. C. Richardson, Jr., Commandant of Cadets. Taps sound at 9:30 p. m.lorlere3^k-rday)Ej12re
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Somerset Daily Herald
Somerset, Pennsylvania, US
Wed, Jul 17, 1929
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