US Naval Training Camp - Gadget Yearbook (Gulfport, MS)

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C0 AN AN 'F ' l XX f MQ , SAMUEL Levm rg I HIPMATES and old Navy men have their own way, f21m0L1S for its boastfulness, of recounting their experiences in the service. The time is coming when we too will tell our common adventures and for that time we hold in store the fact that our Commandant was Rear Admiral Alfred Reynolds about whose life we will be proud to know the following facts: Rear Admiral Alfred Reynolds manifested his power of selection very early in life by choosing Vir- ginia for his birth-place, on Sep- tember 7, 1853. His father was General J- J. Reynolds. As the sons of Army officers usually do, he spent his boyhood in a number of places and on September 22, 1869, was appointed to the Naval Acad- emy at Annapolis, from Indiana. Though he has said very little about his career at the Academy it is known that aside from being a good student he pulled an oar in the crew for four years, during which time it never met a defeat. His first service, after graduat- ing, was aboard the U. S. S. Narra- gansett under the command of George Dewey, then a Comma'nder, sur- Veying the Gulf of California. Since then he has served in all parts of the world. In the Philippine war he was a lieutenant. During the Boxer Rebellion he was lieutenant commander on the U. S. S. Nash- ville. In the Atlantic Fleet, he has been in command of the monitor Nevada and the armored cruiser Monlana,-ashore he has twice been the Commandant of the Norfolk Naval Training Station. Under President Taft he accom- panied Secretary of State Knox as U. S. Naval representative to the funeral of the Mikado of Japan. The representative of the Army at the same event was the present General John J. Pershing. For two years he was in command of the Pacific Reserve Fleet and at the time of his retirement from active duty, in 1915, he was presi- dent of the Examining Board in Washington and an Admiral of the first nine. On June 29, 1917, he was ordered back to active duty to establish this camp. -In his long career he has been closely associated with all of the great men of both the Army and the Navy. The present Admirals of the United States are juniors to our Commandant. ' F iae

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