The Wilson Military Company commanded by Capt. J.C. Dempsey returned from Camp Glenn yesterday after a 15-day period of field training. The encampment was carried through in a very successful manner and great strides of progress were made. The working hours at camp this year were not very strenuous. The men worked in the morning from 7 o’clock until 11 and the afternoons were devoted to athletic training and various kinds of pleasure for the enlisted men till 4 o’clock when they were free till revile next day. As to the officers and non-commissioned officers, they had schools to attend in the afternoons from 2 to 4 o’clock, then they were at liberty to attend to their duties at Morehead, Beaufort and on the Beach. Other amusements were seen at the camp Y.M.C.A. by a large crowd of officers and men every night of boxing, wrestling, music, singing and moving pictures.
The training program was the most satisfactory one that the National guard has had since it was reorganized n 1920, and for that reason the officers and men took hold with interest from the star and worked like a vast machine throughout the 15 days’ training.
Company “M” carried 73 officers and men to camp this year, the largest number that it has ever carried, and it is of very great interest to the people of Wilson and Wilson county to know that these boys have enlisted in the service of their country, state and nation and are so patriotic and sincere in the performance of their duties as soldiers, ready to step out of their jobs into the uniform of our county at any hour and offer their services for the maintenance of law and order at home or to defend our country against any enemy without.
The officers and men of Company “M” were highly complimented by Col. Don E. Scott, the commander of the 120th Infantry, for the splendid showing they made at camp this year, and the colonel expressed his desire to be able to visit the local military company at its home station at an early date.
Capt. Dempsey is very much pleased with his command and his last words to the men yesterday before they were dismissed at the local armory to return to their homes were words of praise to them for their splendid spirit of co-operation that they had shown in their work with him at camp and their splendid conduct as soldiers and gentlemen while away at camp., Capt. Dempsey says that it was the most loyal and best behaved body of young men with whom he ever was in training.
From the front page of The Wilson Times, July 24, 1923
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