Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Company 1 Midshipmen who came from Northwestern can be distinguished from their brothers of Company 2 by several articles of uniform. Their visor caps and raincoats are quite a contrast to the "Oversea's" caps and bridge coats of the men from Columbia. But the really distinctive feature of their uniform is that, for the most part, they have only one pair of trousers...
Perhaps, the number of trousers per man doesn't seem to be very relevant to the distinctive appearance of the company. But since that one pair of pants has been worn steadily for five weeks, day in and day out, a certain similarity in uniform has very noticeably developed...
Merrifield, a former graduate student at Littauer, explained that his colleagues considered the Harvard men "a good bunch of guys" and thought they should stay in college as long as they possibly could. "The idea that the civilian students are considered slackers by the men in uniform is absurd," the ensign stated. "Most of us had completed our college training, so we had loss to give up," he commented...
...Streeter's command wants recruits from 20 to 36 (with two years of high school) for enlisted women, from 20 to 50 (with a minimum of two years of college, two years' business experience) for officer candidates. Besides important military work, she can promise them a snappy uniform-forest green blouse and skirt, a snappy cap with a scarlet chin strap, a scarlet muffler for accent on the Marines' traditional color. Wives of Marines are barred. Marriage to a Marine after induction is also forbidden, on pain of being dropped from the Corps. But marriage to Army...
General Bissell's relationship with Chennault's hard-fighting force has not improved. Few months ago he sent an inspector to look them over; the inspector's report roundly trounced Chennault because his men were not in proper uniform, because they were not snappy in their salutes to superiors, because they played poker between air fights instead of studying or resting...