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Training Camps Shape 40000 Young Men Into Officers
The piece details 40,000 men in sixteen training camps across the United States preparing to command conscripted troops. It describes eligibility ages, camp life, dormitory style housing, strict routines, and the mix of civilians, graduates, and business workers entering a democratic, merit based path to junior officer ranks through three months of drill, lectures, gas mask drills, bayonet training, and trench warfare simulations.
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Platteburg
N. Y
Madison Barracks
Sacketts Harbor
Fort Niagara
N_ XW
Fort Myer
Fort Oglsthorp
Fort Michaer- Son
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Ind
Fort Sheridan
Fort Lo
H. Roots
Ark
Fort Bmelling
Mipn
Fort Riley
Kaw
Leon Springs
Texas
Presidio
San Francisco
Ite
West Point
Mitlat Lundergo
Europe
Tomate
Anul
Thera