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...windproof cigaret lighter gets a swell rating from 55% of the Army and 63% of the Navy (but fluid is not mailable). Other favorites: cigarets, leather wallets with insignia on them, pen & pencil sets, stationery, polarized sun glasses. The boys even want shoe brushes and razor-blade sharpeners. Special Army favorites: good regulation shirts and socks and extra government issue caps (of the right branch). But as Army and Navy provide full outfits for all except officers it is better not to send clothes unless specifically requested...
Still less deserving of respect are those who go to the extent of removing the ROTC insignia from their collars and the VERITAS shields from their overseas caps. If my small knowledge of military law is at all accurate, the men in the latter group are guilty of a courtmartial offence, namely that of wearing a uniform to which they are not entitled...
Dressed in gleaming whites and wearing full insignia of rank, the 500 men were an impressive sight as they filed the banked rows of wooden benches. Then Rear Admiral Brown, a new kind of commencement speaker, spoke to this new kind of graduating class...
Wearing white uniforms and, for the first time, full insignia, more than 500 student officers of the Naval Training School, Indoctrination, will gather at Sanders Theatre this morning at 11 o'clock for their graduation ceremony...
Meanwhile copper continues so scarce that even the Army last week recognized the shortage, let WPB order curtailment of uniform insignia production in order to save perhaps 300 tons of copper a year (just over 1/100th of 1% of the U.S.'s expected copper supply this year...