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...requirements will still allow reservists to continue in school on inactive status until graduation provided they meet scholastic standards. Two weeks after graduation each reservist will be ordered to active duty reporting to the reception center nearest his home for processing. Upon completion he will be sent to the Central Signal Corps Replacement Center, Camp Crowder, Missouri, for at least three months' further training...
Young Captain Patrick Bannon, a "sound chip off an old Gloucester block" ("God rest his iron soul"), is a Reservist whom the Navy has told to "fish a little longer." Obeying the order with a true seaman's pleasure ("his mighty nose snuffed up the spray's champagne"), he takes the "sweet sailer and . . . good earner" Daniel Webster out to the Grand Banks with a weather eye peeled for wartime trouble. Aboard are two new men, Danes by their claim-Conrad and Holger...
...reserve plans offered him are perhaps somewhat bewildering at first. In general the outlines of the Army Enlisted Reserve and the Navy V-1 are well known, but recently announced by Elliott Perkins, director of the War Service Information Bureau, were changes in these plans of which every intended reservist should know...
...have checked on their qualifications for each, but the maze of available delayed-action enlistment plans can only add to the bewilderment of the new Freshman. High pressured into enlisting with the rest of his class within a few weeks of his arrival in New Haven, the confused reservist will find himself with two years of hard-earned deferment in which to decide which branch of the service he should have joined. Meanwhile, new opportunities in the armed service or in technical fields will be closed...
...have checked on their qualifications for each, but the maze of available delayed-action enlistment plans can only add to the bewilderment of the new Freshman. High pressured into enlisting with the rest of his class within a few weeks of his arrival in New Haven, the confused reservist will find himself with two years of hard earned deferment in which to decide which branch of the service he should have joined. Meanwhile, new opportunities in the armed services or in technical fields will be closed...