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College Juniors and Seniors who apply for the eight months' course resulting in a commission as Ensign in the Naval, or 2nd Lieutenant in the Marine Corps Aviation Reserve may, if they so request, be deferred from call to active duty until completion of their current college year...
...army of 1963. But my dear, one simply cannot marry a man making only twenty-one dollars a month. That's not even undic money. It's silly even to dance with them; no future in it. And yet all there is left, unless she knows a handsome ensign, is the 4F Club. Brrr. What a plight for the womanhood of America. Should they starve for food with a soldier or starve for romance with a mentally, morally, and physically unfit specimen of the warlike...
...Naval Academy and its guests broke into a thunderous cheer- an unprecedented demonstration in honor of Ensign Kidd and his father, a rear admiral who commanded a division of the Pacific Fleet, was killed at Pearl Harbor...
...Regiment stiffened slightly; the flutter of programs stopped. Midshipman Isaac Campbell Kidd Jr. marched quietly up the ramp, saluted smartly, grasped his commission as an ensign in the U.S. Navy from Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox...
Most, like Ensign Kidd, asked for submarine duty. Of the 547 graduates, 25 top men remained at the Academy for four months to instruct Naval Reservists, some went to engineering schools for a few months' further technical instruction in radio, etc., the rest, after a month's leave, will go straight to naval aviation...