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...Navy is heading for a postwar manpower problem of unprecedented magnitude. To man the postwar fleet, it will need a force estimated by hopeful Navymen at some five times its greatest previous peacetime complement. The logical place to get the force is from the fleets' 2,862,971 war-trained Reserves, officers and men, who now comprise 84.5% of the entire Navy...
Things as They Are. Under Secretary of State Joseph C. Grew keynoted the supporting arguments. Said he: ". . . In the world of things as they are, our international policy, to be effective, must have strength behind it." He added that the U.S. must be prepared to provide its complement of troops to a United Nations peace-policing pool...
...stayed with her -out of an original total complement of more than 3,000-still manned her. Gehres would allow no one else aboard. He issued beer. An octette of Negro mess-men and other talent, with a band of pots & pans, an accordion and a cornet, put on a pathetic and courageous show-"The Franklin Frolics." For four days they rested in Pearl Harbor, then sailed on for Panama. On April 26-after 38 days and 13,400 miles-they dropped anchor at last in New York's Gravesend...
...with an additional month of specialized communications for some men, the class will bear the uninspiring but informative serial number 445, the condensed date of its arrival. "445" will be made up of men ranking from ensign to lieutenant commander. The class will have a varied background since its complement will have come from sea duty, indoctrination school, and midshipmen's school. Yard dorms will, as before, provide quarters for the class...
Wherever Lieut. General Sir Montagu George North Stopford led his XXXIII Corps last week, his flock of ducks went also. Every mess tent had its complement of parrots and parakeets. But even the Fourteenth's men thought last week that a sergeant had reached the ultimate. His new pride & joy was a 10-ft. python, maintained in sheer defiance of Hilaire Bellocs advice on pets: "A python, I should not advise; it needs a doctor for its eyes, and has the measles yearly...