Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...little military training or whose services are not actually required in the military forces or this country, the opportunity of rendering valuable and effective aid to France in her war against Germany should have a strong appeal. There is little likelihood that any branch of service other than the patrol boat units will directly encounter the armed forces of Germany. The ambulance corps, however, offers an indirect way of increasing the military strength of the Allies. Those men who, for such causes as defective eyesight have been refused admittance to the regular training corps will find ambulance work the most...
...offering instruction on all phases of the gasoline motor as used in patrol boats. The course will be held at the Technology Laboratory on Vassar street every Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday evenings from 7 to 10 o'clock, the first meeting to be tomorrow. Men enrolled in the Naval Reserve will become eligible for these classes by registering at the office of the Naval Training Association, 42 Water street, Boston...
...Naval District proposition. The First District is the local one. It extends from Eastport, Me., to Chatham on the Cape. Captain Rush is in charge of this district and has power to enroll anybody who would be useful on the war slate of his naval district. This embraces patrol boats, civil engineers, structural engineers, mechanical engineers...
...enlisting of men from the University for the Naval Reserve has not taken place rapidly enough to sufficiently man the patrol boats already at the Government's service. Only about seven units have been enrolled to date for patrol duty, and as Lieutenant R. F. Bernard, U. S. N., who has charge of this branch of the Naval Reserve, has plans for 50 units, more volunteers are needed at once. Every effort is being made by the Committee of Public Safety of Massachusetts to enlist more men for this work, and the outlying towns are being canvassed for recruits...
...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 of war will be immediately ordered to report for duty in defending the coast from submarines...