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...Reserve Officers' Training Corps since enlistments were thrown open after the spring recess. The new cadets enrolled will be assigned to provisional companies, each of which will be placed in charge of a sergeant-in-structor of the regular army. These companies will form a provisional battalion under the command of Captain Bowen, who is to supervise the instruction of these units. The incoming cadets will be distributed so as to equalize the strength of the companies...
...cadets enrolled in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps will be assigned to provisional companies. Each of these companies will be in charge of a sergeant-instructor, U. S. Army. The companies will form a provisional battalion under the command of Captain William S. Bowen, U. S. Army, Assistant Commandant, who will supervise the instruction of these units. The Aid for Assignments will distribute the incoming cadets so as to equalize the strength of the companies: Assignments of instructors are as follows: Provisional Battalion, Captain W. S. Bowen, U. S. Army; 1st Company: 1st Sergeant, Frederick Boyd, U. S. Army...
...Stripes along the Hindenburg line? After all, what it really means is this, and the pacifists will only waste their time in arguing against it, that here in the United States you have a nation of 100,000,000 people eager to prepare, with practically unlimited resources at its command, and the greatest inventive capacity in the world, and there is no doubt in my mind that in a year or two you could organize a larger army than any Power in Europe, and, what is more important, it would be of a better quality because it could be composed...
...clock the companies were marched individually to the field, and for an hour went through company drill. At about 4.45 o'clock the three majors took command of their battalions, and for the next half-hour the men were put through battalion maneuvers. At 5.30 the regiment formed across the field in line of battalions for retreat, and the impressive ceremony was performed without a hitch. Immediately afterwards the companies passed in review before Captains Cordier, Bowen, and Shannon, and then marched back to headquarters with the band...
...officer must exercise self-control even under the most trying circumstances, even when someone has blundered. There will be a lot of mistakes made; we expect them; they are bound to happen. But when the game begins, do your command as it is given. Back your officer, back your country, back your Government. There must be team play, regardless of whether or not we think the command is the right...