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...Ready?" asked the pilot, Ensign Harry May, over the intercom...
...years of the course (that is, after completion of the initial two years), subsistence at the rate of ninety cents a day is paid. Contract students' pay while on the required summer, training period is at the rate of $75 a month. Upon being commissioned. Contract students are commissioned Ensign, U.S.N.R., and affiliate with a Naval Reserve unit of their own choice. Contract NROTC students are deferred from draft by virtue of written agreement to accept commission if offered and to serve if called...
Best Friend. In New Haven County, Conn., Ensign Stanley W. Henderson bailed out of a faltering Navy plane, landed unhurt in a tree, climbed down and was bitten in both legs by a waiting...
...ensign just out of the Naval Academy told me later: "Suddenly the war got awfully personal. The prows of those boats were high out of the water. They were roaring in for the kill. We opened fire with the 40 millimeters, our main-battery five-inchers and everything we had. When the smoke and spray had cleared away there they were, still boring right on in. Finally we forced three of the boats onto the beach and sent a shore party in to capture their crews. The fourth changed course and headed out to sea with throttles wide open. Since...
This week the Ensign, Canada's national Catholic weekly newspaper, took a strong view of the Fraser article...