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Show MTIQNALF OPQAL AfTAIM U. S. Will Train Big Army This Summer In addition to tne regular mj f-sonnel f-sonnel required to supervise the training train-ing work under commanders of the nine corps areas there will be approximately approxi-mately 160,000 members of the National Na-tional Guard In the field, about 30,000 reserve officers and specialists, 10,000 student members of the reserve officers' offi-cers' training corps, and 27,000 civilians. civil-ians. The plans provide for the training of National Guardsmen preferably in their own states or at the nearest suitable federal or state encampment. Wherever federal cantonments are available they will be offered to the states under revocable contracts. The courses for organized reserve personnel will be limited according to law to two weeks. Demonstrations by small units of the regular army will be staged at ench training encampment encamp-ment to Illustrate standards of proficiency pro-ficiency In drills and tactical methods in maneuver problems. The department announced that applications ap-plications for attendance at the citizens' citi-zens' training camps will be accepted after April 1 at the corps headquarters headquar-ters at Boston ; Governor's island, N. Y. ; Fort Howard, Md. ; Fort McPher-son, McPher-son, Ga. ; Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind. ; Fort Sheridan, 111.; Fort Crook, Neb. ; Fort Sam Houston, Tex., and the Presidio at San Francisco. X7ASHINGTON More than a "Y quarter of a million men are expected ex-pected by War department officials to be under canvas or In barracks this summer for intensive military training for the first time since congress welded weld-ed the regular army, the National Guard, and the organized reserves Into a composite body constituting the army of the United States. Plans for the Instruction of 227,000 men, representing repre-senting the three components of the united land forces, are announced by the department. Ample funds for the program are expected by officials of the department depart-ment to be made available by congress con-gress by that time, and while the plans are made contingent upon the amount of money appropriated, officials offi-cials feel confident the necessary sum will be allowed for their full development. |