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Show Navy Opens 23 Schools ioi Training Regular and Reserve Petty Officers Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox announced today that the Navy will complete in the immediate im-mediate future opening 23 new schools ."or tra ning enlisted men of the Regular Navy and the Naval Reserve for rating as petty officers in cooperation with the Vocatonal Education program of -CTe"UrS. Office of Education. The schools are located in 12 cities Noroton, Connecticut, Charleston, South Carolina, Indianapolis, In-dianapolis, Indiana, Los Angeles, California, San Francisco, California, Cali-fornia, New York City, Boston, Massachusetts, Chicago, Illinois, Detroit, Michigan, Toledo, Ohio, St. Louis, Missouri and Ba.n-bridge Ba.n-bridge Island, Washington. Ten basic subjects will be given in the courses. Secretary Knox pointed out that each of them will give the men enrolled excellent excel-lent training for making a livelihood live-lihood after leaving the naval service. The basic courses are radio, visual signaling, Disel engine en-gine operation and maintenance, a.ratinn machinists, aviation me- talsmiths, cooks and bakers, yeomen, yeo-men, carpenter's mates, storekeepers store-keepers and electrician's mates. These schools are new and m addition to the schools conducted exclusively by the Navy for training train-ing men for specialists ratings. The regular naval service schools are being expanded to meet the demand for the additional petty officers to be required by the building of a Two-Ocean navy. The Navy has recently reopened reopen-ed one of its own big schools at Great L,akes, Illinois. It has recently rec-ently opened Navy schools at Seattle, Washington, Jacksonville, Florida, Alameda, California, and at the Ford Motor Company plant in Detroit, Michigan. The other Navy schools are at Norfolk, Nor-folk, V.rginia, San Diego, California, Cali-fornia, Pearl Harbor, T. H., New London, Connecticut, Washington, Washing-ton, D. C, Long Island City, N. Y., New York City, Mare Island, California, Cavite and Newport, Rhode Island, Lakehurst, New Jersey, Brooklyn, New York, El Segundo, California, Pensacola, Florida, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, Bellevue, N. C, Binghamp-ton, Binghamp-ton, New York, Yorktown, and Dahlgren, Virginia. Secretary Knox pointed out the following factors: The schools in all classes will be available to enlisted men of both the Regular Navy and the Naval Reserve. The 23 new schools are primarily primar-ily for training Naval Reserves, but reserves also will be ass:gned to the established schools operated oper-ated by the Navy on an equal basis with the regulars. There is a great need for trained train-ed specialists in the expanding Navy of the United States, and the Navy is in a position to offer the men who enlist either for career service or emergency service, serv-ice, as in the case of the Naval Reserves, training which will prepare thejn for earning a livelihood liveli-hood in civilian life. This is an opportunity for young men to earn while they learn. The tra'ning will be intensive, in-tensive, but none the less thorough. thor-ough. The courses in the new rchools will average 16 weeks in length. The courses .in these schools aie designed to give those who can qualify intensive but thorough train'ng in theory and shop practice prac-tice of the trade or craft involvea. Then, of course, they obtain experience ex-perience by actual work with the great variety of machinery and service demands of the Navy afloat and ashore. Because the ships of the Navy are complete communities in themselves it is essential that there be an amp! 5 supply of trained train-ed specialists in virtually all lines of activity. The specialist ratings not only include techniques and operations perculiar to naval service, such as ordnance, fire control, torpedomen and so on, but the trades and crafts followed in civilian ilife, such as cooking, baking, radio work, Diesel en-g en-g ne operation and maintenance, plumbing, printing, shipfitting, steam fitting, meteorology, hospital hos-pital work, musical training for the var.ous naval bands, photography, pho-tography, including motion picture pic-ture taking, showing and color photography, optical instrument making and maintenance, avia-t.on avia-t.on pilot tra. ning, deep sea div- ng, dental technician training, pharmacy, wood working, metal Aork.ng, boiler-making, pattern making, molding, welding and in act virtually all of the trades and crafts found in any large city. The Navy is now conducting a e'riva to enlist 35,000 men by June SO. The Navy will need the men for the increased number of vessels scheduled to join the fleet. Due to the emergency it is iary to have more men, and the high percentage of rated men 1 . qu red ior a modern navy creates cre-ates an opportunity for advancement advance-ment winch should be attractive to any ambitious and able young man. ihe projected enlisted strength in: Navy as of July 1, 1941, is 256.000 men. Of this number 114,422 will be petty officers, iiiat s approx mately 45 per cent of the enlisted personnel of tne Navy in the various ratings. The expansion program creates vacanc.es, and the man enlisting now has the opportunity for advancement. ad-vancement. In short the Navy is in the unique posit. on of not only providing pro-viding employment for young men for the Navy's own need, but able to give these men training w:nich will be of benefit to tne nation by preparing the men for civilian life by giving him special training in a civilian vocation. The following is the list of n-w schools being opened in cooperation coopera-tion -with the U. S. Office of Edu-cat.cn: Edu-cat.cn: Radio Noroton, Connecticut; Charleston, South Carolina; In-d.anapolis, In-d.anapolis, Indiana; Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, and Bambridge Island, Washington. Washing-ton. Signaling Toledo, Ohio, and Los Angeles. Diesel Engineering Detroit, Michigan; Ch cago, Illinois; San Franc sco. New York City and Boston, Massachusetts. Av.a.ion Machinists Chicago and Detroit. Aviat.on Metalsmiths Chicago Chica-go and Detroit. Cooks and bakers Noroton, Connecticut. Yeomen Indianapolis, Indiana, and To., do, Ohio. Electrician's mates St. Louis, I.I seouri. Carpenter's mates St. Louis, JJ esouri. Sto. ekeepers Toledo, Ohio. These cities have been selected because of the demonstrated public pub-lic spiritedness of their officials and citzens in providing the Navy with proper armory space. Secretary Knox pointed out '.hat enlistments are being taken .n both the Regular Navy and the Naval Reserve. The enlistment enlist-ment in the Regular Navy is for a six-year per od, and is the enlistment en-listment usually selected by men wishing to make a career in the Navy. The iNaval Reserve enlistment s ier a four year period. Enlisted Enlist-ed men of the Naval Reserve are cailed into active duty when ne.ded n time of emergency and revert to inactive status when their s.rvices car, .be spared after '.he- emergency. Recent instruc-ions instruc-ions nave been issued increasing the age range for Naval Reserve enlistments to from 17 to 50 years and provision has been made for f rst enlistment with ratings for men qualified for certain trades and crafts, but who have not had previous naval experience. Men enl sting either in the Regular Navy or in the Naval Reserve Re-serve are, of course, subject to general assignment afloat or ashore as required by demands of the naval service. |
