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Camp Dodge Brings National Army to a World Class Training Hub
At Camp Dodge Iowa thousands of recruits undergo rigorous medical exams by leading physicians, ensuring only the fittest join. Notable doctors from Minneapolis and Chicago serve under contract. 2 1 2 percent fail. The camp expands with 6000 rifles, rifle ranges, cross country hikes, and eight hour daily drills. Major General Plummer urges Sunday music and theatre planned by Dean Holmes Comper. a 4000 seat theatre and a traveling chautauqua circuit will entertain troops_two shows weekly by regiment.
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Camp Dodge
Iowa
Minnesota
North Dakota
Illinois
Charles Lyman Green
Minneapolis
Green
Sam
Miller
Chicago
West
Europe
Des Moines
Washington
National Army
Plummer
Holmes Comper
Comper
Drake University Conservatory of Music
Dean Comper
Imp
National Playgrounds Association
Eighty-Eighth Division
First National Army
Carl Sagen
Moline
Ill
Sagen
Flanders
Cantonment