Re: 33rd company,155th depot brigade
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33rd company,155th depot brigade
9/12/00
In WWI a "depot brigade" was a kind of reserve miliary organization to fill up other organizations when losses occurred in battle.You would have been pulled from a depot brigade into another military unit, probably promoted (or eventually), and then with that new unit (where you came in as a replacement), you'd have received further training elsewhere in the US and then have gone to Europe and seen action possibly.
The concept of a depot brigade comes from the depot brigades organized in Scotland in the 1880s to prevent recruits from becoming to centralized from one region, town, or village.The idea is to amass many recruits from an entire region on a more or less indiscriminate or "blind" basis in order to have more diversity in the ranks--eliminates favoritism and elitism (also sort of what the draft attempts to do--mixes people of all classes and backgrounds).
RL
Nov 15 2000
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Re: 33rd company,155th depot brigade
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