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Item
Title
D685-8
Date(s)
- 1936-07-09 (Creation)
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Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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Citizen's Military Training Camp (C.M.T.C.) at Camp Murray. Two new arrivals are looking through a small book. After World War I, the country could not afford to maintain a large standing army. Nor could it afford the time needed to train hastily summoned volunteers in an emergency. The compromise was the Citizens Training Camps. In these annual camps held in the summer, young men interested in military careers could train as well as reservists needing a refresher course. (T. Times 7/9/1936, pg. 14)
Citizens Military Training Camp--Tacoma; Camp Murray (Wash.); Washington National Guard (Tacoma); Military camps--Tacoma--1930-1940;