This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Kanka, Whelan Classification: Military Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/281 Message Board Post: Plattsmouth Journal, Thursday, August 29, 1918 ARE TAKING SPECIAL TRAINING. >From Monday’s Daily. Edward KANKA and Francis D. WHELAN, both former Plattsmouth boys but both going from Omaha to Ft. Riley, where they were in the Medical Reserve Corps, and where they remained for some time taking a little training, after which they were sent to Rochester, Minn., where they were given instructions in the large hospital there with the matter of receiving instructions which should put them in position for work sooner than otherwise. They have been there for about six weeks now and will soon be through the course which they are receiving there and will then return to Ft. Riley for a little further drilling before going to an advance cantonment for the finishing before going to the east.