Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Several new vacancies in the Marine Corps Platoon Leader Class (open to freshmen, sophomores, and juniors) and the Officer Candidate Class (open to seniors and graduate students) were announced last night by Lt. Col. Alexander A. Elder USMC, associate professor of Naval Science. Both programs confer draft exemption, Elder said...
Uniformed NROTC cadets will blood for their country and the Red Cross blood drive instead of attending their regular lab period this afternoon, Lt. Gerald J. Crowley, assistant professor of Naval Science, announced last night...
...Picked officers took downtown Havana's Cabana fortress. Others seized naval and air centers. From these bases they took control of police stations, communication centers, the labor palace. The rest of the island-there were only two regiments outside Havana-fell soon afterward. The young officers crowded round Batista at his table in Columbia and crowed: "Fulge, we're in!" Prío took refuge at the Mexican embassy. "We are the law," proclaimed Batista, sending tanks and armored cars through the streets of Havana...
Line officers in both the Marine Corps and Navy are commissioned after graduation from the third R.O.T.C. unit. The naval program is also divided into two groups of students, the "regulars" and the contract students. After a nation-wide competitive examination, the former receive tuition, books, and living allowances free from the Navy during their four years in college, and are commissioned in the regular Navy following graduation...
Besides their classroom work during the school year, all R.O.T.C. members now have to attend camp or make a cruise during at least one of the three summers between college terms. The naval "regulars" sail abroad all three vacations, while the other groups spend only a few weeks in training somewhere in the U.S. or North American waters...