Show west point at war By ByA lal AlaJ gen francis B D wilby superintendent candent ot west well grolni Ae academy ademy Be being Inga a newspaper columnist and reporter is a new experience for me however I 1 feel that chati I 1 can give you a reporters reporter s report to the nation from west feint which should be of 0 interest to every r red ed blooded Affie american rican I 1 wish that everyone could visit byest point for just one day ind and see wh what t I 1 see you would getlan a inspiration that you cannot help put but feel when you asee see the man men of the corps and what they are doing athey are not only fitting the themselves mieves jor or winning this war but also f orwin win ning the peace and preventing if possible the recurrence of such another world conflagration as we are are passing through today As you know a cross section of american youth is selected from all parts of the country to come to west point they are selected by tile the most democratic of methods many of them by winning competitive examinations ami nations starting with these we aim to develop a rigorously trained soldier officer a job which Is greatly facilitated by the fact that the cadets cabets thim themselves selves sincerely ely desire to athe make the most of the opportunity they have here with the rapidly changing weapons and new methods developed in modern warfare ir fare we are constantly wor working kingto to keep up lap to date and give the latest most accurate inaccurate information and training to the cadets cabets WALTER is on a our of 0 duty outside continental U S during his absence contributors will substitute the cadets cabets learned and were doing everything a thoroughly trained enlisted man ought ough tto to be able to iio do and before the summer was over they looked like veterans summer maneuvers dont end the s tory story of tough training at west point summer maneuvers are just a phase of the year round program which is is built to train fighting leaders every minute of the 16 hour day 6 a m to 10 p p m mj is filled by 4 q tight schedule of instruction study and athletics plus tactical training in tile the arms and branches of the 94 service ivice the program is designed to turn out officers schooled in all types of army operation and each cadet is familiarized with the use of every weapon from the pistol to the airplane so one can see the west pointer is TOUGH physically and mentally ment dlly ile he has to be at the close of the summer the badts cadets came back into the classrooms for what wa we call ball deade academics during the winter i months emphasis misplaced is placed upon aca academic demic ln instruction str action while the schedule in tactical train ing is somewhat reduced A reporter probably abW would say that we have a highly mathematical and stiff engineering course perhaps that is right but the westpoint Point curriculum alms at teaching a man mail to think to reason lahd and to draw sound conclusions expressed clearly and concisely mathematics and the sciences cei provide provid ethis i this training of the mind which we ie believe believed is so essential in order to produce the finest military leaders I 1 am happy to announce that week the west point instruction is being given a firsthand first hand inspection by some of the leading educators in our country I 1 have invited doctor compton president of the massachusetts chu institute of bf technology and doctor hopkins president nt of dartmouth along with the principal military experts on training in ouraim our Army today major general bull of the replacement training center of the ground forces brigadier huebner of tile the training division of the services ices of supply Bilg brigadier adier general edwards of the Training division of the war department general staff and colonel of the flying training command of the army air forces to mea confer and review our plans for the new 3 year course at the military academy with this course we propose to produce a graduate of west Poin point who will have the finest education and training it is possible to afford in the time available by constantly keeping keepin 9 abreast of the latest i developments we aim to do the job which america Americans and have asked us to do in the days of roberte robert E lee and and U S grant west point produced men deft to meet the challenge of that era john J pershing fulfilled his task in the days of the kaiser |