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Crozier’s career began with three years in the West and eight years teaching mathematics at West Point. Reassigned to
the office of the chief of ordnance in 1887, he helped improve coastal artillery with such inventions as the disappearing gun
carriage. After field service in the Philippines and China, he returned to West Point.
In 1901 President Teddy Roosevelt plucked Captain Crozier from West Point to become a
brigadier general and chief of ordnance, a position he held until 1918. Crozier made federal
armories the testing grounds for new weapons and more efficient manufacturing techniques.
Recognizing the growing interdependence of ordnance and civil science, engineering,
and industry, he became a forceful advocate of industrial preparedness. His efforts paid off
handsomely in World War I. Crozier played a vital role organizing the conversion of civilian factories for ordnance production.
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