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The Marine Corps – Here to Stay

By Lieutenant Colonel Robert D. Heinl Jr., U.S. Marine Corps
October 1950
The Marine Corps seems to arouse at large the kind of white-hot, indignant defense that Everyman reserves for his alma mater, Mother’s Day, or the flag.
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They Were All Giants at Peleliu

By Lieutenant Commander C. M. Blackford U. S. Coast Guard Reserve (Inactive)
October 1950
Of the many tough little actions that have been overshadowed by greater events, one was Peleliu. The invasion of the Philippines, of which it was a preliminary, Iwo Jima, and ...

Sea Power in a War with Russia

By Admiral Sir Gerald Dickens, Royal Navy (Retired)
October 1950
Will the “Cold War” become a hot one? Certainly not if we can help it. Is Russia going to turn on the hot tap, and if so is this likely ...

Struck by Lightning

By Captain P. V. H. Weems, U. S. Navy (Retired)
October 1950
If one is to judge by the impressive demonstration given aboard the Sperry research boat Wanderer when it last visited the Naval Academy, the magnetic compass is still doing very ...

Yellow Jack, Master of Strategy

By Rear Admiral Lucius W. Johnson (MC), U. S. Navy (Retired)
October 1950
Shortly after midnight a Marine private came to the sick-bay and broke out the surgeon’s mate. He complained of severe headache and the diagnosis was written plainly in the color ...

Dogs and Sailors Keep Off!

By Lieutenant Leon B. Blair, U. S. Navy
October 1950
A pendulum swings to and fro, steadily and inexorably. Public opinion, too, has in the past swung like a pendulum. Its arc, insofar as the military establishments of the United ...

Petty Officers - Old and New

By Chief Boatswain Mate J. M. Spring, U. S. Navy (Retired)
October 1950
Some twenty-eight years ago, another Chief was unhappy. He too had an investment of years toward retirement, and his memory traced back through the years, to the aftermath of another ...

NAPS Comes of Age

By Commander William P. Mack, U. S. Navy, and Commander H. F. Rommel, U. S. Navy
October 1950
The U.S. Naval School, Academy and College Preparatory, is the Navy’s third senior educational institution; senior, not in rank, because it is a school for enlisted men, but senior in ...

The Combat Rifle Sling*

By Lieutenant Commander Melville K. Short, U. S. Coast Guard Reserve
October 1950
Ever since its adoption in 1906, the rifle sling has been a basic element in our doctrine of rifle marksmanship. The regulations require that on the range and in all ...

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