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Show TRAINING CAMP LIMITS DEFINED Citizen Soldiers of Utah, Wyoming, Nevada and Idaho Attend Here Salt Lake City. -The 1926 citizens military training camp at Fort Douglas, Doug-las, June 19 to July 18, will be open to citizen soldiers in Utah, Wyoming, Nevada and all of Idaho with the exception ex-ception of the ten northern counties, it is announced in pamphlet issued by the ninth corps area, United States army. Attendance at the Salt Lake C. M. T. C. this summer is expected to equal or exceed that of 1925. Courses of instruction at the 1926 camp will include the basic and the red, white and blue courses. The basic course, with age limit of 17 to 24, for men without previous military training provides preliminary military training, including physical development, develop-ment, athletics, school of the soldier, squad and company drill, rifle marksmanship, marks-manship, first aid, camp sanitation, personal hygiene, military courtesy, meaning of discipline, studies in citizenship. citi-zenship. The red course, for graduates grad-uates of a basic camp between the ages of 17 and 25, provides training in infantry, cavalry, field artillery and coast artillery. Graduates of the red course are eligible on a recommendation recommenda-tion for the white course, which provides pro-vides advanced training, while the blue course is for warrant officers, enlisted men or selected civilians who are physicaly fitted for commissions in the officer's reserve corps. |