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Loose stuff: Congratulations to those hitting the ALNAV . . . Lt. (jg) Kemp entered into the spirit of the thing by visiting Section B's third afternoon class . . . while on that subject, we hear that Coduto is a fast man in a muster; O'Connor thinks the boy has possibilities...
Matter of Life or Death. It had been a miserable beginning. In 1938 the U.S. stood seventh among the nations of the world in military aircraft, had facilities for training fewer than 2,400 Army pilots a year. The U.S. could muster only 1,600 planes, about 1,300 officers and 18,000 men. During the first three years of the A.A.F.'s slow growth there was apathy among the public, suspicion in Congress...
...unprepared the Navy was to fight a war in the first days of 1942; how versatile the Navy has become in two years of war. In 24 months this single new branch has grown into an organization of 262,000 men - more men than the entire prewar Navy could muster...
...sergeant at arms, paunchy and greying, saluted, about-faced, marched to the back of the hall with all the military bearing he could muster. He peeked outside the door. Having thus ascertained what everybody in the hall already knew, he returned to the stage...
There was some discussion as to just why that canine was barking so petulantly at Jawn Harvard the other morning during muster, and the best explanation seems to be that they tried to pass off another mutton bone on him at the Union. If he'd had a little more time he'd probably have had all the student officers barking with...