c University of Oregon Second Officers ' TrainingCamp For Civilians— Military Training on the Plattsburg Model DIVERSITY OF P LINOIS JUL2 2T?18 ~ Administrative Library Four Weeks— August 3 to August 31, 1918 s ;"/^:«:: v":^. i Cross Country Marching Sighting the Enemy Camouflage of Scouts Second Officers' Training Camp AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON The first Summer Military Training Camp at the University which opened June 24th, has met with such complete approval from the men who are in attendance, and there has been such urgent demand for a second camp, both by members of the first camp, who wish to take additional work, and by men who did not learn of it in time to attend, that it has been decided to open a second four-weeks camp on August 5th. Men are expected to reach Eugene Saturday, August 3rd, however, so that they may complete their registration and be settled in their quarters in time to begin work Monday morning. Requirements for Entrance Age — Eighteen or over. Education — Men with college training or engineering ex- perience preferred, but any man with sufficient intelligence to grasp the work offered may be accepted. Health and Physique — It is recommended that applicants have a physical examination by a physician before enrolling, so that they may be sure of being able to endure the strain of the rigorous physical work required. Charging with Bayonet Prepare for Enemy ! Ready to Get Their Boche Hurling Hand Grenades Are You in This List? The University of Oregon Summer Training Camp offers Military Training for : 1. Men of draft age. It will help them to obtain early promotions and commissions when drafted and for the better men at., least probably make possible their admission to an officers' training school at which a commission may be earned. 2. Business and professional men over draft age. It will enable them to put themselves into a high state of physical and military preparedness, ready to train home guard and militia units, ready for early promotion in case the draft age is raised, ready to accept appointments to the officers' training camps the next time a general call is made. Four calls upon civilians have already been made, and two quotas were filled on University of Oregon recommendations in May, 1918, alone. A preliminary announcement has just been made by the War Department of a new series of camps to which qualified civilians may be admitted. 3. Home guard officers and men. It will enable them to raise their units to a higher state of efficiency., 4. High school teachers. It will enable them to introduce military training into their schools or increase its efficiency where it has already been introduced. 5. University and High School students. It will qualify them for promotions in R. 0. T. C. and other training units. 6. Scout leaders. It will give them many new ideas in leadership. Company of Engineers Digging in the Trenche? Smiling as They Dig Do You Realize The Value Of This Training? 1. Military Drill and Parade. Prepares for patriotic service. You become part of the reserve strength of the nation. Strengthens the body; gives alertness to the mind. Teaches obedience, and, what is harder, the art of command. Adds dignity and force to the bearing, self confidence and clearness to the voice, keenness to the eye. Un- equalled for cultivating presence of mind, and necessary for success in the army. 2. Principles of Campaigning. Care for large bodies of men on the march and in camp. Sanitation. Hygiene. Transport. Woodcraft. Scouting. Information service. Security. The art of building up morale. Discipline. 3. Tactics and Strategy. Lectures and discussions on the theory and practice of warfare, and the actual working out in the field of tactical and battle problems. Makes clear many things that are mysterious to the civilian. 4. Field Engineering. Includes the actual construction of trenches, trench systems and bridges, barbed wire entanglements and other obstacles, dug-outs and shelters, and the engineering side of sanitation. Road making and railway work. 5. Signalling. The army's various means of transmitting intelli- gence, particularly the semaphore and wig-wag codes. 6. Topography. Trains the observation and the judgment. The basis of scouting and strategy. Includes map reading, map making and the rough type of surveying used in military campaigns. Landscape sketching, estimating distances. 7. Musketry. The control of fire and fire discipline. The art of making mass fire effective. The use of the various machine guns with demonstrations. 8. Mathematics. For those who desire it. Mathematics is the basis of the work of the officer in heavy and field artillery. Of all branches of the army, the artillery is at present making the strongest bids for officers. Men with some knowledge of mathematics are likely to be in demand as long as the war lasts. 9. Camouflage. Your life and the lives of others may depend upon your ingenuity in devising means of concealment. 10. First Aid. A course likely to be useful to you at .soon- time. Prompt first treatment in case of wounds and accident. How to do the right thing and do it in time. 11. Physical Training. This phase of the camp alone ought to justify the attendance of the average man, even if there were no patriotic reason for preparedness. If you are an Ln-door man, the purpose of the four weeks' course is to make an out-door man of you. Your work all through the year will l>e better for it. The work will be heavy and continuous, but physicians and experl physical directors will be on hand to prevent you from overdoing in the early stagee of the hardening process. At the end of the course your strength and endurance should have increased greatly. 12. Officers' School. Special problems for officers. The advance by rushes. Judging distance. Company paper work. Military courtesies and the duties of an officer. 13. Military Organization. The organization of the United States Army. The organization of the staff and the various departments and services. Army records and reports and the duties of platoon and company officers. 14. Gas School. School of poison gases, means of detection, of launching and prevention. 15. Trench Warfare. Comprises raiding parties, reconnoitering, patrols, wire cutting patrols, the effects of shell fire, Very light, taking over sections of trenches, listening posts, sniping, intelligence work and camouflage. 16. French. Class in "Trench French" for beginners. Advance course if need justifies. 17. Artillery Drill. Artillery drill and formations. Prepares for entrance to artillery schools. 18. Military Law. A brief study of military law and the organiza- tion and procedure of court-martial. 19. Bombing and Bayoneting. A complete study of the modern bayonet system now used by the countries at war, with a thorough practice in the United States system and the method of teaching it. A study of the explosives and mechanical features used in the grenades of all the more important countries as well as the practice of the methods of throwing. Military Life Strict military discipline is observed at the camp. A sol- dierly bearing and military precision in every way is insisted upon. Practice marches into the hills come every week. Problems in mimic warfare are worked out frequently. Theoretical positions are carefully reconnoitered, advanced upon by rushes under protection of covering fire and finally taken by very realistic bayonet charges. The last week is spent almost wholly in the field. At least two nights are spent in the trenches, where trench warfare in its many phases of raiding parties, scouting patrols, listening posts, "Very" lights, and wiring squads is effectively simulated. Several days are spent in the hills where battle problems on a large scale are worked out, the bivouacking in the open. The health of the men at the camp is constantly guarded. Medical inspections are frequently made by the camp physician and a physical director is on the alert to prevent injuries from accident and over-exertion. As nearly as possible the conditions under which the men live approximate that of the barracks of a training camp. Reveille is sounded at 6 :30, and taps, at which all lights are out, at 10:45. General leave is granted from Saturday noon until taps Sunday night and special furloughs when requested with sufficient reason. Lieutenant Colonel John Leader The Staff LIEUTENANT COLONEL JOHN LEADER Commandant Colonel Leader came to the University of Oregon npon the recommendation of the British War Office. He is a graduate of the Royal Military College of England and has had twenty- three years of experience in the British Army. He has served in every campaign undertaken by the British Government during that time, including the Boer war and the Boxer troubles. He has been attached to many foreign armies as military observer, including the Japanese army during the Russo-Japanese war and the German army. On several oc- casions he has been detailed to train foreign troops. At the outbreak of the present war he was commissioned to recruit a regiment in Ireland. This regiment he trained and officered with cadets whom he also trained, and led to France where, as a part of the famous Ulster division, it was fairly wiped out in the early days of the battle of the Somme, in an action which has been characterized as the greatest deed of the war. Colonel Leader was himself broken down by the campaign, and after months in the hospital was pronounced unfit for further active war service. When he learned of the need in Oregon for a man to help train officers for the United States Army he declined tempting offers at home and came here, where he believes he can help the most toward winning the war. Colonel Leader is commandant of the camp, lectures on military subjects each day, and supervises the entire course. COLONEL WILLIAM H. C. BOWEN, U. S. A Professor of Military Science and Tactics Colonel Bowen has had many years of experience in the United States army, in this country and in the Philippines. He served against the Plains Indians, took part in the Spanish- American war, and in the Philippine insurrection. Colonel Bowen is detailed to the University of Oregon by the War Department. The staff includes a number of members of the University faculty who are experts in their special subjects, an artillery officer of the army, and others. The Cost Will Be Kept Down The cost of the four weeks' encampment will be confined to the men's actual living expenses. The University will furnish the equipment and pay the instructors. Rations and housing for the four weeks, together with the use of the University facilities, will cost $50.00, or less than the average man of officer type spends at home in a similar period. Men will be housed in the University dormitories, in the gymnasium and in tents on the campus. Lockers, shower baths, swiming pool, running track, ball courts, apparatus and athletic fields will be at the disposal of the summer training battalion. Men should bring bathing suits, baseball gloves and other personal equipment. Each man will be expected to provide his own uniform. As many applicants are former national guardsmen, members of home guard organizations and fraternal drilling organiza- tions, it has been decided on grounds of expense to the men not to prescribe a single type of uniform. It is expected, how- ever, that the khaki color will be adhered to. Men not supplied with uniforms should acquire either the army khaki, costing about $25, or the rough trench "coverall" uniform, costing about $7, including canvas leggings. Campaign hats are required. Heavy, comfortable shoes should be worn. Each man will bring two blankets and several towels. Sheets and pillows if desired. Blankets should be of warm wool, as several nights will be spent in the trenches and in a campaigning expedition into the hills east of Eugene. Recreation Evening games of baseball and tennis, swimming, and camp-fire sing-songs bring one back to school and college days. A dance each Friday evening, and Sunday evening lunches on the lawn give opportunity for social enjoyments as also do Sunday tramps, and canoeing up the shady mill race. AH are busy, but time is allowed for social recreation. Mill Race Sport Your Legal Status No enlistment or promise of enlistment is required for admittance to the summer encampment. There will be no dis- crimination against the man who is taking the work for the improvement of his health. It will be assumed that every man has some worthy and patriotic end in view and that military preparedness in times like these is worth while for its own sake. The University makes no promise to include any graduates of the summer encampment in any succeeding University quotas for officers. However, the last demand on the univer- sities of the country was greater than they could supply, and the University of Oregon was instructed by the War Depart- ment to use its own judgment as to whom it should recommend, the War Department on its part refusing to go behind the Uni versity 's judgment, whatever that might be, so long as the men were legally and physically qualified. The men will be regularly enrolled as University students and will be eligible to be included in the University's quota so far as student standing is concerned. Neither the University nor anyone else is authorized to predict on behalf of the War Department what method will be used in the future for selecting men for training camps. The fact stands out, however, that the army finds difficulty in getting fully qualified men for officers, and that this difficulty is increasing, and is likely further to increase. The well qualified man is likely to be needed. In the past the graduates of such training camps have received commissions by the hundreds. 3 0112 105897703 Opportunity Opens Announcement has juil been made thai the University will be asked to recommend civilians to a uew series of I'. S. Army Officers' Training Camps and thai application must be made through the military offitjers in charge of the Reserve Officers Training Corps unit in llie school or college nearest the appli cant's home. These camps are to be open to civilians between the ages of twenty and i'm-iy years. It is made clear- thai only civilians of unusual qualifications will be admitted, and that the competition for commissions will be very severe. Complete details of requirements and quotas have not yet readied the University, but everything indicates that the University will be asked to recommend men for these training camps. Those who wish consideration for one of these camps will find it greatly to their advantage to secure in advance such training as is offered at the Uni varsity this summer. A certificate stating that one has successfully completed the work of the course, and listing the subjects covered, signed by the President of the University, the Commandant and the Professor of Military Science and Tactics, is given all who complete the work of the camp satisfactorily. Letters of recommendation will also be written for men applying for examination for commission. For application form and further information which may be desired, address the Adjutant, University of Oregon, Eugene. University of Oregon Leaflet Series Military Training Bulletin July, 1918 Vol. 3, No. 12, Part i Published monthly by the University of Oregon and entered at the post-office in Eugene, Oregon, as second-class matter.