Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-07-06 | Page 11 | 216 Enrolled for Training in Army Life

Enrolled F For or Training In Army Life Youths Begin Month in Fort Douglas Citizen Camp Raw material for tor the citizens cItizens' military training camp at Fort Douglas youths from Utah Idaho and Nevada signed up for lor 30 days of army life as the camp opened Monday morning Young men began arriving at the post Sunda Sunday night and by noon Monday Monday Monday Mon Mon- day most of ot them were registered given physical examinations anc and outfitted for tor their months month's training Staff Sergeant John Pool who has handled enlistment of ot thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands of C. C M. M T. T C. C recruits at Fort Knox Ky and Fort Benjamin Ind md gave enrollees their first taste o of military discipline when he lined u up groups of youths as fast as they arrived arrived arrived ar ar- ar- ar rived and shot them through the formalities in record time Get Travel Pay Recruits were lined up with suitcases suitcases suitcases suit suit- cases and other belongings in front of C. C M. M T. T C. C headquarters registered registered regis regis- given their travel pay pay S 5 cents a mile mile and and then were turned over to the camp chaplains Captain A. A E E. Butcher and Lieutenant Colonel Colonel Colo Cob nd nel S. S J J. Miller for brief briet confer conter- mc Then the fun tun started started started-at at least recruits laughed their way through it the It-the the processing ordeal of physical cal examinations Stripped down to their birthday suits they waited In a long line for their turn with army physicians After their acceptance by doctors as fit specimens for military life Ufe came came cam the outfitting Shoes Fitted In a long room they were given uniforms and army officials of of- took pains to see that each recruit had the proper fit in shoes A soldiers soldier's feet are his best cared- cared for possession Properly outfitted their belongIngs belong- belong tags Ings were stowed in duffel bags baga and theIr suitcases checked not checked not to be used again until the boys start home August 4 To the long lines of ot tents recruits then went and were assigned to their bunks Brigadier General Walter WaIter C C. Sweeney then went into conference with officers who will have charge of the tile camp camp during th the coming f 30 days Lieutenant days Lieutenant Colonel C. C E. E McCarthy McCarthy McCarthy Mc Mc- Carthy executive officer Thirty Thirty- eighth infantry Colonel Walter S S. Fulton of the Thirty-eighth Thirty infantry try who will have direct supervision of training Major P. P B. B Robinson Thirty-eighth Thirty infantry battalion commander and Second Lieutenant H. H D. D Edson Thirty-eighth Thirty infantry adjutant