RTC Classroom Training

RTC Classroom Training. Soldiers in their second week of training learn how to identify different types of gases. 

Anticipating that the training of regimental and battalion gas officers in such local schools would sometimes be difficult during the course of mobilization, the War Department announced a series of one-month classes at the Chemical Warfare School to provide this type of training. In accordance with GHQ policy that the detail of students to service schools should be discretionary with unit commanders, no quotas were set. Thirteen of these 

Additional academic facilities were provided by erecting a well-designed permanent structure between the two original tile buildings, thus merging 

The school staff and faculty at the beginning of the emergency period in 1939 included five CWS officers plus four officers attached from other components who served as part-time instructors. A year later the staff had increased to fourteen officers. There was no substantial change in this number during 1941.  

The suspension of courses at special service schools on i February 1940 did not affect the Chemical Warfare School. This suspension enabled students who were attending courses longer than those given at Edgewood to participate in maneuvers in the spring of 1940. The Chemical Warfare School was permitted to begin its regular Line and Staff Course on 4 February with a class composed principally of Reserve officers. This step proved fortunate since most of the members of this class soon were called to extended active duty. 

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