nlisted men--one fact stuck out: They all played up the corps.
All individuals--officers and men--were made subordinate to the corps.
So here, taking the tip, no names are named. A soldier speaks of his
regiment, a bluejacket of his ship. The Marine Corps is made up of
companies, regiments, battalions, divisions; but it is the corps of
which the marine always speaks.

If you ask the members of any other outfit to name the model military
unit, they may name their own branch of the service first; but if they
do, it is almost a sure bet that they will name the United States Marine
Corps next. When they do not name themselves first, they name the
marines first. And this does not apply to outfits in this country alone.

By the look of things now, there probably will be plenty of war before
we are done. If any young fellow is wishful to be in the middle of it,
we would say: Consider the marines. You may not see them mentioned every
morning in the press reports, but be sure of this--they are there and on
the job.

THE NAVY AS A CAREER

A young fellow reading all this stuff about the doings of our destroyers
might be inclined to look on the navy as pure adventure, which would not
be to get it quite right. The adventure is there, but there is something
more.

The navy will take a young man, feed and clothe him, give him a good
all-round training, and while he is yet in middle age retire him with at
least $60 a month for the rest of his life. No matter how low his rating
has been, that $60 a month is certain after his thirty years of service;
while, if he has shown moderate intelligence and ambition, he can count
on close to $100 a month, and this without his having ever been a
commissioned officer. The years after his retirement he may spend as he
pleases--go into business, get another job, and make another wage on top
of his pension. He can go to jail if he prefers: whatever he does,
always there is that sheet-anchor of a pension to windward.

Apart from the fighting end of it, most of us possibly do not know just
what navy life means to-day. We all know that man-of-war's men no longer
lie out on rolling yard arms to reef salt-crusted sails in gales of
wind; but in what else lies the difference? Some of us, possibly, do not
know that.

The navy still wants men with the seagoing instinct--men who can
sailorize, who can hand, splice, and steer; but more than ever the navy
is looking for men who can do other things