Show MANY STATES SEND NAVAL MILITIAMEN FOR PRACTISE CRUISE ON BATTLESHIPS Naval militiamen lined up on battleship Kentucky's deck. Forty-five- hundred naval militiamen from eighteen states are ncrvr ' jparticipating in naval maneuvers near the Block Island mobilization base. .During tho cruise tho militiamen are paired with bluejackets of tho regular service of corresponding grades and it is the duty of each bluejacket to in-jstrnct in-jstrnct his comrade in tho duties that the militiamen would have to perform in the event the naval militia were called into active service in time of war. |