San Antonio Express. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 306, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 2, 1917 Page: 1 of 40
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ARMY SECTION
FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 2, 1917
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A Fifth of a Million Men Are Being Taught in
Great Cantonment Cities How to Fight
Their Country's Foe.
AN ARMY of more than 200,000 men, a fifth of a million of the pick of the
young manhood of the country, is heing trained in Texas for service on the
b3tt Thfs'darmy in^iie^raining embraces every branch known to warfare. There
are infantry regiments and regiments of those who will do the fighting in the
air; artillery, cavalry, engineers—everything!
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Texas, the battle State of history, has never seen anything like'what is
The Liberty Army in such nurabe rs is being trained here by Uncle Sam
because of climate permitting uninterrupted training for twelve months in the
year; because of the topography, and other considerations valuable to the
welfare and efficiency of the men. . fh
Four Texas points are known as cantonment cities—San Antonio, tne
largest; Houston, Fort Worth, Waco. At San Antonio at the two great camps,
Travis and Kelly Field, and the student officers' training camp, Stanley, at
Leon Springs, are close to 60,000 men, counting in Fort Sam Houston. At
Camp Logan at Houston are 30,90/; at Camp MacArthur at Waco, 30,000, and
at Camp Bowie at Fort Worth, 27,000, which is soon to be increased. Scattered
at other points, smaller training centers, along the border, at El Paso, and in-
cluding the aviation school in Austin are, in the aggregate, thousands more.
The cantonments have cost tens of millions of dollars; in San Antonio
alone they represent an investment of close to S15»000,000.
The Army Section of the San Antonio Express presents, this morning, the
story of how the Liberty Army is being trained in Texas.
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ANTONIO'S importance as a ralli-
the entire Mexican Boundary except
.»• i »- nri-'«?nnt the narrow strip between California and
tary center did not need tne present yjexjco
war to gain recognition in the army. To jg awakening of the United
civilians the centering of groat military States to her former military preparedness
that gives San Antonio its new and greater
importance as a military center.
preparations here may have been a sur*
prise but in War Department Circles the
Climate, available land, water and even
advantages here already were well known, wind contribute to its importance in this
This year's activities have only gone to respect. The first officers' training cam»»
prove tiie views already held in army eir
cles. Its military importance datea back
demonstrated the climatic advantages.
Then, in the middle of summer, the Leon
before the days of the United States Army Springs reservation wag put at Its worst,
headquarters. In the early days of the but daily newspaper readers may recall
settlement of the New World it became a that there were frequent reports that there
military outpost to defend the claims of were "days off" at Plat tabu rg and other
the various nationalities. The Texans trainingf camps because the heat and ca-
rol to the last man lu mldltv made it inadvisable to continue the
training. Camp Fnuston. as it then was
known, did not have a single break in its
fought for its
the Alamo.
As headquarters of tho Southern Depart-
ment. I". S. Army, it is the military center training course and the camp went through
for Texas, Louisiana. Arkansas. Oklahoma, with less than oue per ceut reporting at
New Mexico and Ari/.ona excepting the
coast defenses at Galveston and New or
leans and Fort Logan II.
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the hospital.
Col. Wlllard F. Truby, medical corps,
loots, Little who was stationed at l>eon Spring# said
near the conclusion of the camp that he
Its territory runs nearly double the dfs- considered San Antonio almost ideal for
tanre from New York to Chicago and takes military training purposes. With winter
coming on the advantages arp even more
marked and officers here are counting on
nninterrupted training while other tamps
are unable to proceed because of weather
conditions. In u prediction to men of toe
Ninetieth Division recently. Brigadier t.en-
eral J. P. O'Neill held out the prospect
that the Ninetieth Division trained here
would be the first of the National Army
to Join Pershing in France.
Pershing went to France io command 01
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the Expeditionary Force from San Antonio.
Many other officers now listed in the
Army Directory as "With Fx [>edltionary
Force.'' were listed a few months ago as
being at Fort Sam Houston.
Voluntary censorship prevents a detaiiea
statement of the troops that already have
gone to France from San Antonio. The
(Quartermaster I»etachment at San Antonio
has an everchangine force of men and m
reality acts as a big training school for
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A gray mule pack train at Fort Sam
Houston is the parent organization of all
the pack trains now in the army, llecently
two civilian organizations of Motor Tfnck
machinists started to France from San
Antonio and word has been received also
of safe arrival there of motorcycle men
trained here. „
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San Antonio Express. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 306, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 2, 1917, newspaper, November 2, 1917; San Antonio, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth434504/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.