Coast Guard Seeks
, Enlistments
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The Commander, 17 th Coast
Guard District, with headquarters
in Juneau, Alaska, announced to
day that the Coast Guard has
been authorized to man all organ
ized Reserve Training units (Port
Security) by enlistment of male
personnel with at least one year
A previous active military service'
between the ages eighteen and
twenty-five and male personnel j
between the ages twenty-six and
thirty-five without prior military
service in the Coast Guard Volun
teer Reserve for inactive duty. All ]
applicants must meet physical, l
mental, and moral standards pre
scribed for original enlistment in
the regular service. Enlistments
will be for three <3* years. Enlist
ments of former Navy and Naval1
j Reserve personnel in rating held
a; time of discharge is authorized
except that no enlistment of per
sonnel in this category will be
made in rating above petty officer
first class. Former Coast Guard
personnel may enlist in the rating
held at time of discharge. Person
nel without former military serv
ice will *be enlisted only in the
rating of seaman recruit but may
be advanced to higher non-rated
status when qualified. Former
Marine Corps, Army, and Air
Force personnel discharged as pri
vate first clas and and above will
be enlisted as a seaman appren
tice. Members of Coast Guard
Volunteer Reserve are assured erf
a minimum of two (2) weeks
training with pay each year.
Persons inteersted in enlisting
in the/ Coast Guard Volunteer Re
serve for inactive duty should
make application for enlistment
to one of the following:
Commander,
17th Coast Guard District
Post Office Box 2991
Juneau, Alaska
Commanding Officer
U. S. Coast Guard Base
Ketchikan, Alaska.
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U. S. Rearming
Japan To Meet
Red Threat
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ing about depurging has appeared
in the Japanese press. Japanese
editors were told by occupation
officials to handle the story with
care lest the people get the wrong
impression.
The editors responded with
such oare that they never printed
the story.
The Police Reserve tries hard
not to look like an army but does
not succeed very well. Trim,
khaki-clad recruits are appearing
on the streets in large numbers
and they look and act more like
soldiers than policemen.
In suntans and American-style
combat boots they are easily mis
taken for American Nisei. Their
loose-fitting blouses are patterned
after the Australian uniform. The
cap, with its tiny bill, is lifted
I straight from the old Japanese
! army.
The reserve is modeled after
the United States Army in almost
every respect. It is organized
i
along United States Army lines
with six officers to each company.
American Army field manuals
i have been translated in entirety
for basic training.
Recruits are getting the stand
ard 13-week basic-training course,
including physical conditioning,
scouting and patroling.
In many cases the reservists are
using camps and facilities vacated
by American troops now in Ko
rea. Six thousand men are train
ing at one American camp in
northern Honshu.
Facilities of American Army
school sat Eta Jima, former Jap
anese naval academy near Hiro
shima, have been turned over to
likely recruits.
Eta Jima also is an officers
training center. Of the 370 fficers
graduated in the first class nearly
all were former Japanese army
reservists.
So far reservists have been
! armed only with American car
. bines. But they are being given
! instruction in the use of American
i
I weapons from machine guns to
! 155-millimeter howitzers.
Keichi Masuhara, civilian head
| of the police reserve, tells me that
I in the future the training program
| will include tank warfare and use
i of 57-millimeter anti-tank guns.
MacArthur spokesmen say: “It
| is not contemplated that reserv
' ists will be given anything bigger
i than carbines. But nobody, least
of all the Japanese, doubts that all1
kinds of American weapons will
be abundantly available if and
when the need arises.
Says Mashuhara, a bespectacled
little man in an unpressed brown
suit:
“If Japan is permitted to rearm
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and the Constitution is changed it
would be comparatively eary for
the Police Reserve to become an
army.' However the force exists
for police only in case of wide
spread civil disorder in Japan.”
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CUB SCOUT PACK TO VISIT
MARKS AIR FORCE BASE
Saturday afternoon our Nome
Cub Scout Pack is to visit the i
Marks Air Force Radio Station,
and will leave the church about»
1:30 to do so. The group will be
divided into two groups, and will
be met at the field by Base per
sonnel: The -theme for Cub Scouts
this month is “Radio,” are we are j
to see how a program is broad
casted, with the intention of re- j
I turning the last of the month to |
put on a “live” Cub Scout pro-1
1 gram.
Scout Finance
(Drive Meets With
Good Response
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the same assistance from the Boy
Scouts of America as any other
American community, Harper
said.
Duane A. Force, Alaska Council
field executive, was planning to
leave Nome today for a short trip
to Kotzebue, returning to Nome
Monday to meet further with Cub
Scout leaders and other persons
interested in the Scouting pro
gram for boys. Force hopes to re
turn to his home in Fairbanks
Thanksgiving Day. He will con
tinue to assist Nome leaders
through correspondence until his
next week-long stay in late win
ter. Present plans are to hold the
Nome Boy Scout camp during Au
gust, Force said, with thf possibil
ity of several Kotzebue j^nd Can
dle Scouts also taking part.
Men serving as volunteer work
ers on this year’s finance cam
paign for the Scouts include: Jim
Walsh, Jim McLean, Capt. Stan
ley Morgan, Dick Cornwell, Bud
Harper, Dewey Goodrich, Jack
Dillon, Don Hurlbert, Rev. Robert
Treat, Bill Angell, Larry Galvin,
Joe Hunt, Harry Gabrielson. Ted
Duffield, Robert Baldwin, Wesley
Fults, Don Lyle, Sam Mogg, Dan
Jones, and Ben Young.
Harper expressed his apprecia
tion for the support of these men
in furthering Nome’s Scouting
program. He asked that all work
ers turn their report envelopes in
at his office at the earliest possi
ble time, so that a final account
ing of the campaign can be given
the community.
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