By his skill and bravery, it was in those campaigns that many a young American officer received that special training evolved in combat with the wily savages which proved of peculiar value in certain phases of the highly scientific modern warfare in France and Belgium. They were taught the art of scouting, of trailing and of perfect self-reliance in the school beyond the ken of any European soldier and many a midnight raid by the Americans into No Man's land doubtless found its inception and clever execution in the brain of one of these one-time Indian fighters of Pershing's type. 