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DEVELOPING THE UNFIT.

Cl TRAINING CAMP. The main feature of the Cl camp af Featherston for the physical (raining and building up of men formerly classed as unfit for active service will be a close co-ordination ,of the military and medical services. Not only in the sick but or medical boardroom but or the parade ground, hut in (heir tents will the fitness of men he under observation, or under test. While many of the details of the camp's organisation have not yet been decided upon, the main scheme to he followed, at any rate at the outset, is practically settled. It is expected that alterations may be made as the work progresses, but since this is the first experiment of this sort to be made in Australasia adjustments will require to be made. British experience has boon profited by, and in military circles the opinion has been expressed that from 50 to 75 per cent, of the men who enter the camp will be made lit. The exact location of the camp has not finally been decided upon, but for the first month the site will be in the canvas portion of the main Featherston camp. This lias (lie advantage of being near Hie camp quartermaster's stores and the medical quarters. The first draff of the Cl and C2 men, to name them according to their original classification, will enter earn]) on September 2fith. But those men who are' not rejected again by the Medical Board will have had their classification changed to A, B, or Cl. The A and B class men will go into camp with (be reinforcement drafts in the usual way, and the Cl men will go into Die now camp, and will be subdivided, it is understood, into classes according to (heir relative fitness. Physical exercise of greater or less degree will be given accordingly. The CL camp will be a separate unit under a totally separate staff. It will have its own adjutant and camp quartermaster, and there will be an officer commanding to each draft. The troops will be divided into companies of 200 men under an officer commanding company and two other officers. To each 100 will be attached six non-commis-sioned officers. The officers and non-commissioned officers will all lie Second Division men or returned officers. They will be specially selected for (heir steadiness, laid, and patience, its well as for I heir military knowledge. Each 100 men tire to be divided into six squads, each tinder its own non-commissioned officer, who will never be changed except in exceptional circumstances. Tie will personally supervise the welfare of each of bis men. As (raining progresses and (be men show various degrees of fitness, they will be drafted into different squads for physical exercises, but they will always parade with their original unit under their same officers and non-commissioned officers. It is understood that a special medical officer will lie detailed for the C'l camp. He will spend all his lime there, and will make a close study of the troops under his charge, keeping in (ouch with I lie (raining officers, whose opinion will carry weight in deciding a man's lit ness. Physical training being a strong feature of the new camp, the personnel of lhe inslmetiunal staff Ims bad special attention. These instructors are all returned non-com-missioned ollieers, and they will he under the direction of an officer who has special knowledge of (be Avork. Camps of this kind have been in full swing in Great Britain for some months, and good results have been obtained as a result of careful physical (raining. Four weeks is the approximate period in which the fitness or otherwise of the recruits K expected to show, but it may take longer, and, again, some men may develop more rapidly and qualify for transfer to reinforcement drafts. .As men go out of camp, Avhelher as lit for service or as unfit after being medically boarded, allowance will he made for the entry of a corresponding number of extra men with the next monthly draft. On October 24th it is expected that the strength of the camp will be increased to 2,000 men, which is (bo number a| which it will stand. According to presoul intent ion, Ibis month’s draft will number up (o 500.

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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1731, 18 September 1917, Page 3

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DEVELOPING THE UNFIT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1731, 18 September 1917, Page 3

DEVELOPING THE UNFIT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1731, 18 September 1917, Page 3

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