US Naval Reserve Midshipmens School - Side Boy Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Path To The Blue and old By PHIL LUFT It was a tri-ennial migration, a movement which began abruptly after the com- pletion of each college semester and spread out over the ensuing few weeks, then ended as suddenly as it had begun. It was a migration of men, young college men whose destiny had been sealed by the signature of Admiral Randall Jacobs. They gushed forth from the colleges and universities of the nation, from the University of Southern California on the West to Villanova College of the East and from mighty Duke in the South to the University of Illinois and Minnesota in the central and northern states. They were potential cogs in the mighty war machine that comprised the Navy. Their duty it was to replace the worn and damaged parts in this mechanism, to bide the time they would go down to the sea in ships. Like so many others of their day, they bid adieu to mothers, sweethearts and buddies and journeyed toward the great East which was to be their home for the months before sea duty. To some the mighty threshold city of the East was like any other large city which had more of humanity than they had places for humanity. Some were awed by its mighty structures and the life that existed under its crowded streets. Yet most of those who had come from beyond the Alleghenies climbed its towering buildings, visited its teeming beaches on the boardwalk and as the night drew near went below to crawl into its subways and be whisked away to where a new life was awaiting them. To those whose orders read, destination-Fort Schuyler, Bronx, N. Y., they found there was not much of what is called beauty awaiting them. Situated as it was, it provided a proving ground for the icy northeastern gales of the Atlantic in the winter. In the summer the sweltering heat waves of New York's burdened side- walks seemed to reflect off its scaling towers and converge on the East River and its promotories. It was a bedding ground for the rolling blankets of fog that swept down the Sound and smothered it for four months out of the year and when it rained, the tiny body of land that was Throgg's Neck seemed to be a part of the water that surrounded it. The first impression of Fort Schuyler was indeed unpromising. Its gray frame buildings and sandy, barren plots offered none of congeniality of friendship but stood in stony reproach of those who were to prove themselves in the weeks to follow. The strange, uncomfortable breath of regimental life and discipline hung over the narrow stretch of Regimental Road that sliced through 218

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USNRMSFORTSCHUYLER V BUPERS NR859.5 OP-USNRMSFORTSCHUYLER-T-USNRMSCOLUMBIA-USNRMSNOTREDAME-A- BUPERS 151200 USNRMSFORTSCHUYLER-USNRMSCOLUMBIA-USNRMS- NOTREDAME-W-USNMSANNAPOLIS-N-NTUV-12 GR10 BT ATTENTION IS CALLED BUPERS DIRECTIVE T.S. 121 EFFECTIVE 15 SEPT. ALL HANDS ENGAGED IN USNRMS ACTIVITIES WILL IMMEDIATELY BE COMMIS- SIONED AND RETURNED CIVILIAN STATUS. REFERENCE SHOULD BE MADE TO CIRCULAR 1000.05 ARTICLE .7 CLAUSE .2 ALNAV WHICH STATES ANY MIDSHIPMAN WHO HAS NOT COMPLETED THREE YEARS ACTIVE DUTY ON V-12 CAMPUS WILL BE SUBJECT T0 THREE YEARS ACTIVE DUTY IN PEACE TIME NAVY PENDING COMPLETION OF PRESENT TRAINING. THIS DUTY TO BE SERVED ABOARD GARBAGE SCOW 0N MERMANSK RUN AT SUCH TIME DEEMED NECESSARY BY SECNAV. LENGTH OF DUTY WILL BE GOVERNED BY THE TOTAL NUMBER OF POINTS TRAINEE HAS GARNERED WHILE SERVING ACTIVE DUTY AT ANY OF THE RECOGNIZED COLLEGES OF THE NATION. REFERENCE TO RECOGNIZED COLLEGES MAY BE FOUND IN LATEST ISSUE OF ENGINEERING AND DAMAGE CONTROL AUXILIARY. TRAINEE IS ADVISED T0 KEEP HIS MIND ALERT TO ANY SCUTTLEBUTT THAT IS DATED PRIOR 6 NOV. 1956. SCUTTLEBUTT GATHERED FROM BUS DRIVERS BAR TENDERS OR CHOW HANDS TO BE CONSIDERED AS TOPSEC AND GUARDED ACCORDINGLY. FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT COME IN THE ABOVE CATEGORY IT IS ADVISED THEY CONSULT LOCAL DRAFT BOARD AS AT PRESENT THERE ARE 20 OPENINGS FOR QUALIFIED PERSONNEL AS INSTRUCTORS IN NROTC UNITS THROUGHOUT UNCLE SUGAR. CIVILIAN OPENINGS FOR TRAINEES WITH SUFFICIENT POINTS WHO HAVE HAD EXPERIENCE IN TACTICAL FLAG HOISTING MAY BE HAD RUNNING LAUNDRY OUT ON CLOTHESLINES STRETCHED BETWEEN ANY OF THE REPUTABLE BRONX APARTMENT HOUSES. TRAINEES ARE ADVISED TO KEEP INFORMED ON THEIR PRESENT NAVY STATUS BY CALLING BUPERS DURING ANY OF THE RECREATION PERIODS BT 151200 AR 217

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