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Show Mail Applications Accepted For Liberty Battalion Stay in your home town and join the Coast Guard LIBERTY BATTALION. Applications for enlistment in the U. S. Coast Guard and the SPARS, Women's Coast Guard Reserve, are now being accepted by mail. Men and women interested inter-ested in being included in the 168 members of this special July battalion should ' address The Coast Guard Recruiting Officer, 518 Felt Building, Salt Lake City, Utah. Arrangements will be made for preliminary interviews and physical examinations to be taken in the applicat's home town, if the group is large enough to warrant the visit of the Coast Guard's Mobile Unit. A" mass enlistment of the 168 members of the LIBERTY BATTALION BAT-TALION (one Coast Guardsman or SPAR for every year of American Ameri-can independence) will take place in Salt Lake City at the end of July. Similar ceremonies will be performed in Denver and San Francisco. Coast Guardsmen will then be trained as a group at the Alameda Training Station, SPARS at the new school at Palm Beach, Florida. Men who have attained their eighteenth birthday prior to the public ceremony may take the oath and await shipment with the LIBERTY BATTALION at the end of the month. Men over 37 years of age who have not reached reach-ed their 45th birthday are also eligible. Age limits for enlisted SPARS are 2 to 26. Of special interest to men is the Coast Guard's educational program which includes training in specialized subjects at service schools and correspondence ocurses. Credits earned while in service with the Coast Guard will be accepted by most universities toward graduation after the war. Furthermore, any enlisted man between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-three, is eligible to apply to his Commanding Officer for officer training. |