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Twelve more promotions to RFC this
month* This is one of the largest groups
of promotions for quite some time, and
each one deserves -v congratulations ; for
his step up the promotion ladder. Warr
ants will be given out this ■ week by our
Commanding Officer to:
Private Calvin BOLZ
Private Clifford ELDEED
Private Vurl GRAY • *
Private Phillip HARRIS
Private J ohn MORGAN
Private Roberto QUINTANILLA
Private David REYNOLDS
Private Wendell ROBINSON
Private Tex- RIEKE
Private William TAPIA
Private Milo THARP
Private Robert WAGNER
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Private Douglass FISH
Private Richard KIELMAN
Private Robert PATCHIN
Private Thomas■MAJKOWSKI
Private William JOHNSON
Private Karl NIELSON
Private Richard BROWN
Private Daniel ENGLANDER
Private James LLOYD : ''
Welcome to the Barracks, men. Hope your
tour here will be useful'and speedy.
Staff Sergeant’ Herbert MAN, Adnin Chief
of the Barracks, returned last week from
Fairbanks where he sjient a fewdays leave
visiting his sister# SSgt MAN reports
that the mainland is as nice as ever,but
that he was glad to get back to Adak so
as to ensure that his orders were being
out for his transfer to the First Marine
brigade. Bo leaves the island in April
Tor Hawaii where his family is now liv
ing. Also in the ’’coming and going”cat
egory is Sergeant John HARRIS, who took a
small R & R excursion to Anchorage this
weekend, and Private Ron MESSENGER, who
states he hopes to return back to the
Barracks from the Station Hospital in a
?ew more weeks. _
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Throe men from the Barracks have been
notified that they have satisfactorily
passed their test for pronotion to Serg
eant' E-5 and they are now awaiting info
fron CMC about cutting scores. Those el
igible for Sergeant E-5-are: Sergeant E-4
John HARRIS, Corporals E-4' Irving BIRD
and Joe THOMPSON, and. Sergeant E-4" Earold
BROUN who has previously passed his pro
notion' test.
Of the many colorful and interesting
choices of duty available to Marines., Enr
bassy Duty rates with”the most sought
after. The requirements one must comply
with for this kind of duty are many and
very difficult. The applicant for Em
bassy Duty nust undergo a thorough screen
ing of his-personal background,and is then
sent to Washington D, C. for five weeks
of instruction, .‘Where only approximately
2/3 of the personnel under instructionare
expected to graduate.
This intensified screening program to
select personnel for Embassy Duty is well
.justified, for after the Marine is,.placed
in. his assigned Command for. duty, he then
in reality assumes the responsibilities
of an ambassador himself. People in for
eign countries, will form opinions of the
United States from the way this Marine
conducts himself. ' The primary duty of the
E.ioassy Marine is to be the personal guard
for the Ambassador, or to guard the Em
bassy building, but he will be called upon
to perform many, other equally important
tasks , and must be well prepared to handle
then all with the same degree . of profic
iency. This again merits reason for the
screening given every applicant for Em
bassy Duty.
The reason, of course, that Embassy Duty
is sought by Marines, is the. importance of
the job and the idea of foreign romance
and intrigue in a distant land, which we
all dream of happening to us. Who knows,
an Embassy Marine may find those things,
but then again, you' can make any tour of
duty just as interesting.