US Navy Officer Candidate School - Sea Chest Yearbook (Newport, RI)

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'V 'YU'-v LT ORVILLE B. ROBINSON The perennial question after Maneuvering Board quizzes was just how great the tolerances would be and consider-able speculation was wasted in this department. However, everyone felt pretty proud of himself when he drew his lines from r to ln and to most, this constituted the crux of the whole topic. Communications placed a strain on the already taut memories of the First Battalion's warriors with its labyrinth of mysterious terms such as RAT'1 ', whom most had pictured as an animal particularly obnoxious to the fairer sex and never mentioned in polite society. Most were horrified by the thought that after I6 weeks ol' aggravating their old ulcers and acquiring several new ones, they might be relegated to the dubious distinction of being a custodian . But these passing fears were alleviated by the realization that a custodian was truly a flexible title and instead of leaning on brooms in apartment houses, they actually would be in charge of very vital publications and would be directly res- ponsible to that fabled person known more familiarly as the C, O. or perhaps the old man . Someday you, too, may be a C.W.O. g 25