Word: ensigns
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...interested should go to Room 940, Old South Building, any week day between 11 and 4 o'clock. No one will receive an ensign's commission until he has passed his final tests...
...Volunteers for the new boats are necessary at once, and an excellent opportunity is offered members of the University to enroll in the Naval Reserve and to secure positions on powerful 30-knot boats. Men can enlist in units or singly. The units are composed of five men, an ensign, a quartermaster, an engineer and two seamen, but groups of 12 and more men have been organized to man the larger 60 and 90-foot boats. Each unit will be assigned to a boat for patrol duty in the First Naval District during the summer maneuvers, but what is more...
...units are composed of an ensign, a quartermaster, an engineer and two seamen, and an opportunity is offered to men in the University to either organize themselves into one of these units or to enlist singly. The period of service is four years in length, with only three months during that time to be devoted to active duty. Resignations will be accepted by the Navy Department except during the periods of strained foreign relations or actual war. Each unit will be assigned to a boat for patrol duty in the First Naval District during the summer maneuvers, and in case...
...this reserve sign up for a period of four years during which they must devote at least three months to training under any one of four or five provisional ratings, such as quartermaster, engineer, ensign, etc. The work may be done during any part of the four years so long as not less than three weeks' training is taken at one time. In case of war the men in the Naval Reserve will be ready for immediate and more thorough training...
...service in the Naval Reserve especially organized for college men. The navy department, after the men volunteer for this work, will form them into units of five men each, to man the privately owned power boats loaned to the Government for this work. Each unit, consisting of an ensign in charge, an engineer quartermaster, and two seamen, will be assigned to a boat for patrol duty in the First Naval District during the summer manoeuvers, and in case of war will be immediately ordered to report for duty in defending the coast form submarines...