Eating--This is one thing recruits at Jefferson Barracks do not have to be taught. After hours of drilling and exercise they say they "just come by it natural." This menu includes potatoes, pears, lettuce, coffee, bread, veal and peaches.
Private Bredemeyer thought he would take this machine gun apart to see what made it "tick." An apparent case of "spring fever" is handicapping his efforts to get it back together again.
These rookies have been in the army less than a month but under the intensified training schedule at Jefferson Barracks they are rapidly being converted into soldiers. They are shown here marching in review on parade grounds. Lieut. R.C. Huggins, in charge of the training of recruits is shown marching with drawn sword in front of the troops while Major Walter C. Philips reviews them from the sidelines.
This young soldier is working over a tearful panful of onions, but doesn't seem to mind it. Learning "to take it" is one of the first lessons of the young soldiers, and St. Louis business leaders, desiring men with such character training have employed so many members of the Sixth Infantry who have completed their terms that the regiment is now short-handed and is making an effort to obtain recruits among the higher type young men of this vicinity.
Maj.-Gen. Drum second from the right, is shown asking the noncommissioned officer at the left, who had just put his men through an attack formation for column of squad, how he would employ his soldiers to take a near-by building occupied by machine-gunners.
"We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards, too, but single men in barracks, most remarkable like you." runs one of Kipling's poems. These two soldiers, performing their abulutions at Jefferson Barracks, give truth to the word as they look most familiar at these everyday tasks.
The three most interested parties in the advancement of the club. Left to right: Capt. R. S. Henderson, in charge of construction and a member of the Executive Committee; Johnny Pepp, professional, and Lieut. Regnier.
New dress uniform for enlisted men is exhibited by Staff Sergeant George R. Johnson (second, left) Corp. Massengill (second, right) and Corp. George E. Francis (right). The general color scheme is the same, with the insignia in various colors indicating the branch of the service: light blue for the infantry, scarlet for the artillery and yellow for the calvary.
The colors approaching the reviewing officers yesterday afternoon at the 1175 youths of the Citizen's Military Training Camp at Jefferson Barracks hold regimental parade.
Company of the Citizens' Military Training Camp recruits who have been mustering in at Jefferson Barracks during the past three days for the 3o-day encampment.
One of the newly-constructed grass greens on the course with (left to right) Capt. McCowan, Mrs. Van Zee, Lieut. O'Connell and Lieut. Van Zee holing out.
The Colors pass in review in the Army Day parade held yesterday afternoon by the Sixth Infantry at Jefferson Barracks. Reviewing officers and a group of spectators are shown at the back. The observance was sponsored by the St. Louis Chapter, Military Order of the World War.
The only casualty in the maneuvers was this tank, which overturned when its driver came too close to the edge of a ditch. Two tanks and a block and tackle were required to right it.
The General inspects Company H, machine gun company of the Sixth Infantry. The three officers moving forward at the left are Gen. J. A. Summersett, Col. Joseph A. Adkins and Lieut. Kelly of Company H.
Cook filling a soon-to-be-empty platter with slices of meat. Recruits are assigned regular terms at waiting on the tables. And their "customers," hale and hearty fellows, boast of appetites of considerable proportions.