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Show Navy Is Asking For 11 Men From Mount Pleasant Seeking 1,000 Utah volunteers for the Navy in October to man battle stations in this nation's fighting fleet, the Navy has asked ask-ed Mount Pleasant to furnish 11 men as its quota of the October drive. Navy enlistment age limits are 17 to 50 and men may volunteer for service in the Navy up to the time they are due to report for induction in some other branch of the armed services. Stressing the Navy's need for men, Lieut. R. W. Schlecht, officer of-ficer in charge of the Salt Lake Recruiting district, pointed out that the nation's huge shipbuilding shipbuild-ing program calls for a tremendous tremend-ous reservoir of trained men to man the ships now coming down the ways. The Navy, he said, is largely a service of specialists) composed of men to handle technical tech-nical jobs which require a high degree of skill and training. Therefore, it is necessary that men be procured in time so that they may absorb the amount of education necessary to fit them for valuable places in the fleet. The Navy today offers training in 49 different trades, a majority of which will prove valuable in civilian life after the war is over.. Men with experience and skill in certain fields necessary in the Navy such as carpentry, electricity, elec-tricity, fireman, cooks and many others may be enlisted in ratings rat-ings commensurate with their civilian experience while men who do not have the necessary qualifications to fill ratings are enlisted as apprentice seamen and given training for the work which aptitude tests show them best qualified to do. |