38th Wins Military Championship!

As 35th Sets Record for Reviews

(PHE 35th Batt set an all-time station record by winning the Regimental |
Review for the fourth consecutive time Saturday, to divide ‘military |

honors with the 38th Batt, which placed first in four military activities and
tied a fifth to win the W hite E pennant with a score of 3.245.

Lieut. H. A. Rabenhorst’s 35th bat-
talion is the only one in NPFS history
to have won first place every time they
appeared in Regimental Review. The
35th also came in second in last week’s
overall military averages, with a 3.228.
Other scores: 39th, 3.224; 37th, 3.2;
36th, last week’s winner, 3.178:

The 38th rated first in: MILITARY
BEARING, INSPECTION OF RANKS,
ROOM INSPECTION, AND TAPS IN-
SPECTION, and tied with the 35th,
31th, and. 39th: for "CONDUCT = IN
RANKS. Top honors in INFANTRY
DRILL went to the 35th, and in FOR-
MATION to the 37th. The 36th and
37th tied for WATCH EFFICIENCY.

Men of Military merit chosen as bat-
talion commanders for the current week
were: 35th, Daniel Holladay, J-1; 36th,
R. E..Wojohn, K-2; 37th, P. H. Hayek,
B-2; 38th, R. H. Bauman, C-1; 39th,
A. W. Sievers, E-2.

Lightning—52

37th Recaptures

Academic Award

The 37th Batt placed 83.03 percent
of its members on the all-passing list
in Academics for the week ending
December 17, to win the Red and White
E which will be awarded next Monday.
They had previously flown the academic
burgee the week of December 6.

Other percentages released today by
the Records Office were: 39th, 79.15 per-
cent; 36th, 78.04 percent; 38th, 76.92
percent.

Sky teala 06

Xmas Eve Ball (Conta.)

form an evergreen ceiling, through
which shine the shaded lights. A 30-
foot Christmas tree stands in the west
end of the hall, blending hundreds of
colored lights with the soft glow of the
ones overhead.

Only entrance to the hall for the
Christmas Eve dance is through the Gil-
more pool entrance at the east end of
the building, facing Memorial. Check
rooms are located on either side of the
doors. The smoking lamp will not be
lit on the dance floor, but the rifle
range has been decorated, and will be
used as a smoking room. Five hundred

gallons of punch have been ordered to |

keep the six punch bowls flowing.

At 2200 the ladies will form two
columns, four abreast, and, led by Mrs.
C. E. Smith and Mrs. R. W. Burleigh,
march to tables on each side of the tree
where favors will be distributed. They
will then meet at the tree, and march
in rows of eight the length of the dance
floor. Over 1100 women, including 300
WAVHES from NTS Milledgeville, are ex-
pected to attend the ball.

The festivities last until 0100, and
cadets have until 0145 to escort their
dates home. Taps sound at 0200.

 

 

Sunday Stage Talent

The Sunday evening pre-movie show
in the Auditorium at 1945 will feature
a Variety Revue from Atlanta with a
cast of 14 chorus girls and novelty per-
formers.

Beaufighter—58

Honor Grads (Contd.)

won wrestling, obstacle, basketball and
track.

Sgt. Toups, of Covington, La., enter-
ed the Marine Corps in 1941. He was
an aerial photographer at Quantico be-
fore receiving his appointment for pilot
training. Here he was on the regi-
mental championship tumbling team,
and has been battalion adjutant.

Sgt. Nelson, of LaCrosse, Wisc., a
newspaper sports writer before enlisting
in the Marine Corps in August, 1942,
was a member of the winning track,
basketball, and obstacle course teams,
and won the regimental wrestling
crown at 150 pounds.

Sgt. Brusasco, of Los Angeles, Calif.,
served two and one-half years aboard
the LEXINGTON, and helped man one
of her guns when she went down in the
Battle of the Coral Sea.

Cadet Brady, of West Palm Beach,
Fla., won the low hurdles in regimental
competition.

Cadet Kramer, of Needham, Mass.,
competed on the basketball, wrestling
and obstacle course teams from J-1,
which won regimental supremacy.

The honor roll, which includes four
Marines, and one bluejacket cadet, fol-
lows:

1. Sgt. T. J. Toups, USMCR, J-2B, Coving-

ton, La., 3.63.

2. Sgt. S. A. Nelson, USMCR, J-1A, La-
Crosse, Wisc., 3.57.

3. C. G. Brady, J-1B, West Palm Beach,
Fla., 3.53.

3. Sgt. W. C. Brusasco, USMC, J-1A, Holly-
wood, Calif., 3.53.

3. R. E. Kramer, J-1A, Needham, Mass, 3.53.

6. J. H. Boomer, I-3B, South Ozone Park,
Wea 8., 23s

6. Robert. Burns, J-1A, Kingston, Pa., 3.50.

6. K. D. Kopp, I-2B, Alexandria, Va., 3.50.

6. J. B. Levi, I-1A, ‘Woolbridge, N. a3 3.50.

6. H. D. W. Naylor, J-1B, Dallas, Texas, 3.50.

11. Joseph Casco, J-3A, Somerville, Mass.,
3.47.

11. J. R. Cullinane, J-1B, Concord, Mass., |

47.

$15.5; Ww. Culver, Jr., I-1B, Fort Worth, Tex.,
3.47.

11. J. C. Kugler, I-3A, Salem, N. J., 3.47.

11 W.. Po Millis; ARM2c, USN, J-2A, Greens-
boro, Ala., 3.47.

11. R. L. Saunders, I-1A, Rockingham, N. C.,
3.47.

11. C. C. Szostek, I-2A, Methven, Mass., 3.47.

ll. R. J. Tranbarger, J-1B, Washington, |
D. C., 3.47. j

19. W. B. Briggs, J-3A, Blandford, Mass., |
3.43.

19. S. C. Davenport, J-3B, Rosindale, eee
3.43.

19. J. J. Dulhagen, J-1B, Union City, N. J.,

43.

19. H. D. Knott, I-2A, Carolina Beach, N. C.,
3.43. ran

19. J. G. Kulisich, I-2B, Govert, S. Dak., 3.43.

19. Cpl. J. J. McKenna, USMCR, I-1A, Gary,
W. Va., 3.43.

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Operational Report |

REPORTED:
E. V. Scanlon, SM3c, from NAPTCRO,
Atlanta.

TRANSFERRED:

J. E. Runyan, PhM3c to R/S Charles-
|ton Navy Yard; J. E. Henderson, SK2c,
and W. L. Shea, Jr., Skic, to R/S
‘Charleston Navy Yard, for transfer to
sea duty.

 

Heinkel 111—74

Dispensary Renamed
To Honor KRixey

Official designation of the Navy dis-
pensary on Lumpkin street as Rixey
Dispensary was announced this week by
Captain C. E. Smith, station skipper.

The building which was formerly
known as Lawrence Dispensary has been
renamed to honor the late Rear Admiral
M. W. Rixey, one-time Surgeon General
of the Navy and Chief of the Bureau
of Medicine aud Surgery.

The change of names was deemed
advisable to avoid confusion with Law-
rence Mess Hall in Operations. The
honored hero in that instance was James
Lawrence, who, during the War of 1812,
uttered the immortal words “Don’ t give
up the ship.”

Admiral Rixey, former personal
physician to Presidents McKinley and
Theodore Roosevelt, was one of the
first advocates of physical training for
Naval officers. He also contributed
greatly to the development of the Naval
Hospital Corps and Nurses Corps.

Junkers 52—96

‘Lull Before Storm’
Recorded by Marine

What does a Marine do before an in-
vasion? The answer is found in the
following summary compiled by Master
Technical Sergeant Jim G. Lucas, of
Tulsa, Okla., who kept this record of
his own activities with a Marine combat
unit at sea prior to the bloody battle
of Tarawa:

(1) Played 215 consecutive games of
gin rummy.

(2) Bought and smoked six cartons of
cigarettes and one box of cigars.

S Drank 93 cups of hot coffee.

4) Obtained one crew hair cut.

(6) Washed the same pair of sox and
the same pair of underwear 11 dif-
ferent times.

Read one ‘Pocket History of the
United States.’

l¢7 ) Read two religious essays.

(8) Read 19 mystery stories and one
something or other called ‘The

| Haunted Pajamas.’

(9) Spent an average of 18 out of every
24 hours thinking and talking
about home.

Mariner—118

 

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| (Officers Promoted

 

Two NPFS officers were advanced in
k this week: Travis Kirkland (Acad)
to lieutenant, and E. M. Ussery (Acad)

|to Heutenant, junior grade.
Walenty "Nieutupski, J-1A, Ludlow, Mass., |
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