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During the war he was assigned to the Officers' Training Camp at Fort Riley, and at the completion of his course was commissioned second lieutenant in the Field Artillery Reserve Corps. He saw service in France in the Fifth Division with the 21st Regiment of Field Artillery, a motorized outfit, equipped with 155 mm. howitzers. The regiment was in France from May 1918, until July...
...United States Military Academy at West Point in 1909 and assigned to the cavalry. From 1909 until 1912 he saw service on the Mexican Border and on the Navaho Indian Reservation. In 1912 he was selected for a year's instruction at the Mounted Service School at Fort Riley. From then until 1917 Major Goetz was on foreign service, part of the time acting as aide to Brigadier General C.C. Edwards. During the war Major Goetz was a temporary colonel in charge of a replacement brigade at Camp Jackson...
...training of those men chosen as competitors will begin in the very near future at the Cavalry School at Fort Riley, Kansas. About the middle of June they will join the American Army of Occupation in Germany where they will enter the final stages of training. After competing in the Olympic Games, the team will return to America during the latter part of September...
...ride and train horses this summer. Twenty head of horses are now at the Commonwealth Armory. These vary in the amount of training they have had from absolutely unbroken remounts to highly trained chargers who were originally selected to be sent to the Mounted Service School at Fort Riley, Kansas, where the best army horses in the world are trained. The instruction which will be given by Major Miller and Captain Dick will be entirely free. There will be no liability for future enrolment in the R. O. T. C. nor will the instruction be offered as part...
...will give as full an outline as the time permits of the plans for the Field Artillery Unite here next fall, laying especial emphasis on the course in equitation, which will be modeled after that of the Service School of Equitation at Fort Riley, Kansas. Colonel Goetz will also explain a special ruling which has been made by the College Office whereby Freshman may arrange to elect the course for next year by changing their study cards before the close of College this term...