Word: sergeant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Last Monday four non-commissioned officers and two privates from Camp Devens reported for duty with the field artillery unit here. The detail came down in charge of First Sargeant John O. Witham, and is composed of the following men in addition to Sergeant Witham: Sergeant John Burns, Sergeant John John E. Bliven, Sergeant Joseph Barter, and Privates John C. Sweeney and Alfred G. Little. All of these men, who will aid in the instruction work of the unit next fall, are experienced. The majority have seen service overseas, while two wear gold wound stripes...
...Marine authorities see fit to issue a second appeal, the whole matter assumes a different aspect. It then becomes no less than a duty for college men, especially such as would otherwise spend, a comparatively useless summer in white flannels at the seashore, to look up the Marine recruiting Sergeant on Tremont Row, opp. Scollaly Square, and obtain, all further details with a view to signing...
...keep this fact in view and to make allowance for it. Periodical shifts among those holding places in the commissioned and non-commissioned grades in the corps tended to divide the leaders from the led. The permanent installation of tested men in the positions of company commander and first sergeant afforded opportunity for each sixty men to be placed under the careful observation of two trained cadets who could discover their individual ability, develop each man to the highest extent of which he was capable, and report to his superiors at stated intervals upon the progress made by each candidate...
...merely a student; his primary qualification is leadership, and the power to command. In my opinion no officer should be commissioned until he has seen service as an enlisted man, and come to understand the view-point of the enlisted man. If he shows ability as corporal or sergeant, it is fair to assume the he will show the same ability as an officer, and then is the time to give him all the opportunities for advancement...
...Sergeant Robert Lewis Forbush '13, master engineer, senior grade, in Co. D., 101st Engineers, 126th Division, died in France, March 14, from pneumonia. He enlisted as a private in July, 1917. Before going overseas in the following September, Forbush was made a sergeant. He served in the capacity of master engineer continuously with the 101st Regiment until October 1, 1918, when he was sent to an engineer officer candidate school. He graduated about December 1, but because of the armistice never received his commission. At the time of his death, Forbush had returned to his company and was acting...