A series of military training camps will be held in June by the War Department, to which all men now completing Military Science 2, who are under the required age for the regular Officers' Training Camps, will be eligible. These encampments will be under officers of the Army, and although the men who complete the one-month's course successfully will not be commissioned, the work, which will be along the lines followed at the Fourth Series of Officers' Camps, will be of great value to all men intending to enter a later series of training schools. No exact date has yet been set for the opening of these camps.
McCain's Official Statement.
1. Under the authority granted in Section 48 of the National Defence Act, the Secretary of War directs that training camps for the further practical instruction of members of the advanced course, Reserve Officers' Training Corps units will be held during the month of June.
2. The exact dates and location of camps will be announced later.
3. Attendance at the camps will be limited to (1) members of the advanced course, Reserve Officers' Training Corps units; and (2) such other selected members of Senior Divisions, Reserve Officers' Training Corps units, who have received military instruction equivalent to the basic course and one year of the advance course prescribed by General Order No. 49, War Department, 1916.
4. All members of Reserve Officers' Training Corps units authorized to attend such camps, who have not already done so, will be required in advance to agree in writing in accordance with the requirements of paragraph 46, General Orders No. 49, War Department, 1916, to attend such camps; and also to accept at the option of the Government such transportation as the Government may provide, or mileage at the rate of three and one-half cent per mile at the colleges, schools or homes to such camp as they may be directed to attend, and mileage at the rate of three and one half cents per mile from such camp after completion of course of same to their homes within the limits of the United Stacs.
5. Reports will be submitted to this office with the least practicable delay, and not later than April 28th, showing the number under each class as given in third paragraph above.
Every man who expects to attend this Government camp during the month of June should report at Headquarters immediately to announce his intentions on a blank form provided by that office.
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