US Navy Recruit Training Command - Keel Yearbook (Great Lakes, IL)

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CUMPETITIVE FLAGS THE HALL OF FAME FLAG is the supreme award that a recruit company may win. It is awarded to that com- pany within the brigade which by earning the requisite number of the following flags, and by maintaining consistently high standards as prescribed by the com- mand, satisfies the requirements for entrance into the Recruit Training Command Hall of Fame. COLOR COMPANY FLAG is awarded to the company attaining the highest overall average among the group of companies with which it will graduate. The com- pany that wins the distinction of being Color Company at its graduation will Post the Colors at the Grad- uation Review. THE BRIGADE EFFICIENCY FLAG is awarded weekly to the company with the highest overall excellence in recruit training. THE BATTALION EFFICIENCY FLAG is awarded weekly to the battalion which compiles the highest overall average in all branches of competition. THE REGIMENTAL EFFICIENCY FLAG is awarded weekly to a company within the regiment with the highest average in all phases of recruit training. THE BRIGADE DRILL FLAG is awarded weekly to the company in recruit training demonstrating the greatest proficiency in close order drill. THE REGIMENTAL DRILL FLAG is awarded weekly to the Battalion Drill Flag winner in each active regiment compiling the highest average in a drill competition conducted among the Battalion Drill Flag winners within that competitive grouping. THE BATTALION DRILL FLAG is awarded each week to the recruit company within each battalion compiling the highest average in a drill competition based on military drill, manual of arms, and physical drill under arms. THE BRIGADE STAR FLAG is awarded each week to the recruit company compiling the highest average in the field of cleanliness, as determined by competitive bar- racks, locker, and personnel inspections. THE REGIMENTAL STAR FLAG is awarded each week to the Battalion Star Flag winner in each regiment com- piling the highest average in the field of cleanliness, as determined by competitive barracks, locker, and personnel inspections. THE BRIGADE l FLAG is awarded each week to the recruit company within the command compiling the highest academic average on the scheduled weekly examination. THE BATTALION l FLAG is awarded each week to the recruit company within each active battalion com- piling the highest academic average on the scheduled weekly examination. THE A FLAG is awarded each week to the Recruit Company within each battalion compiling the most points in those athletic events specified by the command.

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JOHN PAUL JONES, 'I747-1792 ICECELIA BEAUXJ QUALIFICATIONS OF THE NAVAL OFFICER T IS BY NO MEANS enough that an officer of the Navy should be a capable mariner. He must be that, of course, but also a great deal more. He should be as well a gentleman of liberal education, refined manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor. He should be the soul of tact, patience, justice, firmness, and charity. No meritorious act of a subordinate should escape his attention or be left no pass without its reward, even if the re- ward is only a Word of approval. Conversely, he should not be blind to a single fault in any subordinate, though, at the same time, he should be quick and unfailing to distinguish error from malice, thoughtlessness from incompetency, and well meant shortcoming from heedless or stupid blunder. llieproducfiorw of paintings in this section are by courtesy of the U. S. Naval Academy Museum, the United States Naval Institute, the Naval Pbofoqraohlc Center, Chief of Naval Operations, the Cornmandanf of the Marine Corps, and the Electric Boat CornDarty.j NAVAL HERITAGE oHN PAUL joivas set the pattern for aggressive, resolute fight- ing which has always been the ideal of the U.S. Navy. The heritage of our modern Navy is a vast montage of individual maritime achievements. Whether the ship be wooden, sail, ar- mored, or atom powered, the indomitable spirit of hghting, sea lfaring, American men have made our country the bastion of the free world today. To John Paul Jones went the honor of first hoisting the Stars and Stripes over an American man-of-war, the USS RANGER, of receiving the first national salute in Quiberon Bay on Feb- ruary 14, 1778, from France. In command of the BONHOMME RICHARD he defeated and captured the SERAPIS off Flam- borough Head, giving our Navy its famous fighting words upon an invitation to surrender, I have not yet begun to fight. With such inspiration thousands of American sailors have followed in his wake, making individual courage collectively the spirit of our Navy. Commodore Edward Preble, like John Paul Jones, filled his officers and men with esprit and fighting courage. Some of Preble's boys became the great leaders of the War of 1812, Stephen Decatur, James Lawrence, Thomas Macdonough. Perry swept the British sea power off Lake Erie. Hull and Bainbridge in the CONSTITUTION, along with Decatur in the UNITED STATES, established American naval power on the high seas during the first year of the YVar of 1812. As our nation grew in stature in the family of nations, so did our naval oflicers grow in stature as diplomats. Typical of their exploits was Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry's nego- tiations with the Emperor of Japan in 1853-54. Our war between the states developed the same kind of fight- ing men. David Dixon Porter became famous on the Mississippi River. Captain Raphael Semmes in the commerce raider, CSS ALABAMA, alone captured sixty-nine union ships before he was destroyed off Cherbourg, France by Winslow in the USS KEARSAGE. Perhaps the outstanding Civil War naval hero was David Glasgow Farragut f Damn the torpedoes, full speed aheadlnj, whose fleets enforced the blockade of the Confederacy. One generation of fighting men breeds its successors. Dewey, and Sampson, our naval leaders in the Spanish-American War at the turn of the century, led and bred the naval leaders of our next war. IVi1son, Simms, Hart, Taussig, and many others next guided our Navy in the defeat of the German U-boat menace and convoyed our armies safely to France in the war with Germany during 1917 and 1918. THE RETURN OF THE MAYFLOWER. COMMANDER J. K. TAUSSIG, U. S. NAVY, LEADS THE FIRST DIVISION OF DESTROYER5 INTO QUEENSTOWN, IRELAND, MAY 4, 1917, TO COMMENCE OUR ANTISUBMARINE WARFARE IN WORLD WAR I.