The peacetime Army was getting more like a country club all the time, and it was not worrying about the expense either. To coax reserve officers and enlisted men into weekend training camps, the Army was fixing up New York's Fort Totten to take care of the citizen soldiers' families as well. The wives and kiddies would have to pay for their own meals and transportation, of course. But the Army would convert part of the post hospital into comfortable family quarters for a long country weekend on the shores of Long Island. The idea, which started at Fort...
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