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...President looked at his gift with distaste. Said he: "I am not going to receive it. You can take it back and put it in the historical archives of the Marine Corps at Quantico. But I don't want to touch...
...intensive ten weeks course of instruction for the Candidates Class at the Marine Barracks, Quantico, Virginia, precedes appointment as an officer. Upon the successful completion of this class the men are appointed officers and then attend the Reserve Officers course preliminary to assignment to Marine Corps units...
...Marines were hard at work. In the chill winter sunshine of Virginia, they slogged in single file along the roadsides, in thin lines through the naked valleys and over the bare bundocks of the Quantico reservation. Instructors and recruits alike wore the drab, unmilitary-looking coverall working outfit, but the boots had already learned to tilt their campaign hats slightly askew over the right eye. Most of them carried Springfields slung over their shoulders. A few also dragged two-wheeled machine guns and ammunition carts that Marines call "Cole-carts' (after their inventor, Major General Eli Kelley Cole...
...candidates' faces were solemn and they sat without chatter. A great many things had happened to them in the last three months. When they got off the train at Quantico, their only common denominator had been that they were not more than 24 years old nor less than 20, graduates of approved colleges and universities, sound of wind and limb-and civilians. By last week they were no longer 233 civilians: they were the Corps's first candidates for the 1,200 new officers it needs...
...spot he barked: "Halt! Left Face!" Executing the order with precision, they came to a halt exactly in the battalion front, buttocks toward the major in command, faces to a concrete wall. Quickly Captain Jimmy, summoning all his military experience (until Aug. 1: three weeks of active duty at Quantico, Va.; one night a week drill, several hours a week of administrative duty), squeaked "About Face," while seasoned sergeants winced, looked down their noses...