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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...special order of Major-General Barnett, Commandant of the Marine Corps, the members of the University Marine Unit will be honorably discharged on Monday, December 16, for the convenience of the government. The only other course open to the men is that they may go to Paris Island, South Carolina, as regular enlisted men, with no promises for commission. The urgent need for officers in the line and aviation branches of the Marine Corps no longer exists...
...majority of the men will go from here to Paris Island, South Carolina, and thence to Quantico, Virginia, where they will receive their commissions as line officers upon completion of their course of training. Those men who were selected for Marine Aviation service, however, will go first to the ground school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and then to the flying chool at Miami, Florida, where they will complete their training and receive commissions...
Shortly after entering the Coast Artillery in 1908, he was sent to the Philippines, being stationed at Fort Mill, Corregidor Island, the main defense of Manila Bay, the scene of Admiral Dewy's famous victory. Returning to the United, States, he was assigned to Fort Andrews and Fort Strong in Boston Harbor, during...
Recently Major Williams made a two and one-half years' tour of the Philippine Islands. Upon his second return to the United States he was stationed at Fort Adams, Rhode Island. After a very short period there he was detailed to the Harvard S. A. T. C. Unit for the purpose of examining candidates for the artillery service and to act as assistant to his father, Colonel Williams...
...months convoy service on the U. S. S. South Dakota, Lieutenant Vedder was put in charge of the Officers' School for Service Afloat at the Marine Barracks, Norfolk, Virginia. Three months later he was detailed to the main post of the Marine Corps as an instructor at Mare Island, California...