The Marines Have Landed

ard fully equipped. This necessitated packing all personal be

found Dick and Henry thus engaged soon after they had b

e questioned, stopp

hey had never before been required to stow away every blessed thing they owned in one of the

to send them home, is to sell them to Ikie Cohen across the street, or if you choose, you can pack them up with the things you won't ne

eir possessions into two lots. Even then it did not seem po

n taught. The detachment will travel in blues, so before doing anything else run down to the Post Tailor and tell him to pres

blankets, three suits of khaki, two O.D. shirts, three suits of summer underwear, one pair of tan shoes, six pairs of socks, a towel or two, and his toilet articles, one by one disappeared into the e

dvised their instructor. "You will wear leggins and campaign hats, though personally I think it

spiked helmets, white helmets and white uniforms?" asked Dick, while he stowed away a litt

right," ans

vel with all that junk and still always be the fi

ame along we took what was needed for the work in hand and no extra stuff at all. When we made a permanent change of statio

ckon this knapsack weighs

rised to find how much more junk you will have to send ashore than you took on board. It's always the way. Things accumulate, and you never seem to know where they all come from. Many a souvenir and trinket I've left behind or lost in my time which I'd

ks adjusted as comfortably as possible. Besides these impedimenta each boy was armed with a web belt from which hung a forty-five calibre Colt's revolver in a fair leather holster, tightly strapped to the right leg to prevent swinging. Dick was a

ccupied a little over three hours, so that the men from the Washington Ba

vice as a "sea-going marine." Never, if he could prevent it, would he serve at a barracks, and his length of service and known ability generally secured a respect

istence," whispered Dick to Henry as they

a boat, isn't it?" irre

vy everything big enough to fly a commissioned off

oned officer's penna

lue with thirteen white stars in the field, and the rest is divided in half lengthwise with a red and a white strip

y green, but what's a 'truck'? It

ints," said Dick generously. "I just happen to know some of them because of being brought up in an

ss now called the boy

istment record which accompanies every marine in his travels. "Either of you know an

ing, but Henry

making me acquainted with some of

ssengers for the Officer of the Deck and must be ready to go to any place and find any person without hesitation. If you shouldn't happen to know where the place or person or thing is located th

o a Sergeant Michael Dorlan who wa

ed the First Sergeant; "he is one an

d the life of a boy friend of mine this pa

orlan's got the best of him, and he was reduced to

ed Dick, honestly grieved over the m

r a 'court' against your record, nor any other kind of an offense, for that matter. Your slate is clean now; keep i

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Corps Good

CORPS GOOD

l. If the man re?nlists the possession of this medal entitles him to receive 83-? cents a month additional pay. If at the end of subsequent enlistment he

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rom a bar of like metal by a bright red silk ribbon through the center of which ran a narrow ba

renewal of the medal's original significance for a whole enlistment. But to earn one of these you

r examination of the trophy,

teamer for 'Abandon Ship.' Report to the Police Sergeant, get your locker keys, draw your hammicks and find out where you swing. You will find plenty of work to keep you busy from now till 'taps.' Remember, I am always ready to listen to your complaints if you have any and will right them if able, but I also expect you to do your duty up to the han

ttention. At their dismissal they simultaneously rendered the old veteran a military salute, but First Sergean

ssioned or warrant officers in our service, never non-commissioned or petty-off

olice Sergeant Bruckner to return from some duty he was at the time engaged

's were a pretty fine lot when you get to know them," and Dick was very wel

half feet wide. Across either end eyelets were worked, through which passed the small lines called "nettles," and these in turn were fastened to a galvanized iron ring. These last two articles combined were called the hammock "clews." In addition to these, a manila rope lanyard was spliced to one of the rings to facilitate swinging the hammock between hooks fixed rigidly, in almost every conceivable corner, to the overhead beams of the ship. Each man's hammock had a sm

ese articles under their arms the new arrivals returned to the marines' compartment whe

a milkweed pod, filled with seeds to which a cottony substance is attached. This fibre is impervious to water and consequently being buoyant has been found to be better than cork for use in life-pre

l one," remarked Henry, as he gazed ruefully at the heavy canvas, the rings,

agely added Dick. "Perhaps some of these other fellows will init

and the lashings properly made. Then their long sausage-like beds were stowed away in the hammock nettings to rema

boys finally completed their work, "and that is, never call a 'hamm

d of rookies coming on board ship for the first night who escaped at least one tumble to the hard deck below, sent there by the sharp knife blade drawn across the taut foot rope, in

ideas regarding his messmates. Shipboard life is a much closer relationship than life in the barracks, and he was beginning to find that manhood did not necessarily go hand in hand with riches, polished manners and a finely branched family tree. At the first opportunity, Richard had made himself known to

e never would promote me. For whinever I git to be a sergeant, then

road reaches of the Delaware River. At the Delaware Breakwater the pilot was dropped. Many of the crew took advantage of this opportunity to send ashore last messag

sea the general topic of conversation seems to hover around one point--seasick

en seasi

big typhoon coming acr

sea, but I've struck her some rough in t

when the men who never before had seen blue water were half sick before they left the wharf, so vivid their imagination, and thoroughly

the realm of other broken vows, and he was soon hors de combat. Dick, on the contrary, never felt the slightest discomfort, over w

the sick men on the upper decks, albeit many were "

ship holding to the life-lines that encompassed the entire main deck, "but I don't reckon I'll be sick again.

Annapolis, for already the spell of the Marine Corps was clutching at every fibre of his being, claiming him body and soul for its service. In the crew's library he had found a copy of Collum's History of the Corps and for the first time he was reveling in its illustrious deeds from the day

selves in the waters of the Gulf Stream, and ye will believe that ye never saw such blue water in yer livin' born days. And ye

h and a little green grass at this p

git lost and ye can't git into trubble unless ye look for it, and that's more'n ye can say for most places. Its right name is Culebra, which is the Spanish for 'shnake,' but some feller wrote a wonderful story about it under the name I've just men

arked Dick a few moments later, "'Heigho! I

motion, and the 'hammick' sounds good to me. Maybe by to-morrow I