Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1901 — Opportunity in the Army. [ARTICLE]

Opportunity in the Army.

Civilians usually assume that in ths regular army West Point graduates virtually monopolize the commission! The common belief is that the private or non-commissioned officer has no opportunity to rise to the rank of lieutenant, captain, or colonel. The truth ii that the majority of our army officers of the higher ranks are not West Pointers and that many of them have been promoted from the ranks of the regular army.