S.A.T.C. [Student Army Training Corps] Scrapbook

Collection — Box: 2572, Scrapbook: 005

Identifier: 2007.104

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

List of S.A.T.C. [Student Army Training Corps] unit along with photographs and articles relating to the unit’s founding, organization, and service.

Dates

Creation: 1921

Rights Statement

Materials in this collection may be protected by copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).

Biographical / Historical

Beginning in September 1918, military instruction, under officers and noncommissioned officers of the Army, was provided at the Normal School in Cape Girardeau. Enlistment was voluntary, but all students over the age of eighteen were encouraged to enlist. Enlistment constituted the student a member of the United States Army, liable to active duty at the call of the President. However, members of the training units were not called to active duty until they reached the age of twenty-one. This program gave the young men, while being trained, an opportunity to continue their regular school work. After World War I, the Normal School received permission to disband the S.A.T.C. unit and establish an R.O.T.C. unit in its place.