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...into active service, with the added possibility of finishing college if they transfer to V-7 in their Junior year. The Navy is providing for an enlistment under V-1 of up to 80,000 men a year. From these, approximately 20,000 men will be transferred to aviation cadet flight training, V-5, and 15,000 to V-7. The other 45,000 who enlisted in V-1 and who fail to pass either the scholastic or physical examination will have no choice but to go into active service in an enlisted status, with little hope of ever getting...
Headed by Cadet Captain M. P. McNair, the batter will draw its men from all courses in Mil Sci. The captain, and first and second lieutenants will come from Mil Sci 4, the non-commissioned officers from 3, and the drivers and cannoneers from...
...courses will be repeated again and again unless we beat the Japs next week. Is there any reason why the Fine Arts concentrator who says "What can I do?" cannot, be told that in the past Math 2 plus the declining Army physical minimum has enrolled men as cadet meteorologists, and that the probability of future repetition is excellent? Or that the chances are better than excellent that two math courses and two physics courses will send even Classics concentrators to Craft and the Signal Corps? Such probabilities constitute the most valuable information a student can posses. It doesn...
...Fighting the Japanese first became Conrad Helfrich's serious study when he was a chubby cadet at Den Helder, the Royal Naval College in Holland. The curriculum was pointed at the Japanese, because even then the Dutch Navy expected that some day it would have to fight Japan in the Indies. Cadet Helfrich took this and all phases of his studies very seriously. He never excelled at anything except at working hard. He got good grades, but he never won prizes. He sailed small boats, but never won races. The other cadets seldom saw him lounging about the streets...
...After Cadet Helfrich became an officer, the spirit of prophecy and offense both waxed within him. In the early 1920s, when he was teaching other young sprouts at Den Helder, his favorite lecture was on the coming war between the U.S. and Japan. "When?" his students would ask him, and he would boom: "In this generation." Then he would stride to a blackboard map and chalk three Xs- on Pearl Harbor, the Panama Canal, San Francisco. "There," he would say, "the attacks will fall...