Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-01-06
25t JOIN NAVY
At OFFICE HERE
MORE THAN FIVE HUNDRED HAVE
APPLIED AT AMERICUS RE-
CRUITING STATION = APPLICA-
TIGNS STILL ACCEPTED.

Just a few words in regard to what
the Americas navy recruiting station
has done in the past nine months.
Since the establishment of this sta
ton here last March the record this
station holds is far ahead of that OF
anv other town of this size in Geor-
gia and the results have been very
pleasing to both the recruiting in
spector and the navy department not
onlv for the number Of men enlisted
through this station but also for the
class of men.
The exact figures of the work UP to
date is 554 applied for enlistment, out
of this number, due to the fact that
our physical requirements are so rigid
only PSI of them were accepted and en-
listed. All but a few of these being
furnished by Americas and Sumter
county
The navy at this time is in urgent
need of men oil all trades and ratings.
The fact that upon enlisting you are
sent back home to await orders does
not signify that we have all the men
we want. The reason for that is due
to the fact that the navy is Offering
Young men such wonderful opportunl-
ties at this particular time that for
the mast few months men all over the
country have been pouring in so fast
that our eight large training schools
are filled to their capacity; so, instead
of oyer-crowding the school quartering
them I'll. oIntcrtably, and without suf-
ficient clothing upon enlistng, they
are sent Lack home On full pay, to
Wait orders
Tdele ere Row under training about
twenty-five thoUs. nc men at each OF
the Giant training school, besides a
total OF about thirty thousand under
instructions at our tenwty-two differ
ent trade schools. These men are
held for their full period of the train
ing, which is from eight to eighteen
months, and as they qualify in their
respective branches and trades are
held in one place until the ships that
are being built are ready for commits
sion, which takes from eight to thir-
teen hundred men to fully man catch
battleship, this leaving room for the
men who at home awaiting orders to
be called in, to go under training.
Eight months ago there were only
three hundred ships in full commits
sion, with the enlisted men numbering
fifty-one thousand Today there are
little over one thousand ships on
the active duty list, and the number
OF enlisted men Ito be exact one hun
bred and seventy-one thousand, three
hundred and fifty-two. Therefore, the
opportunities for advancement is
wonderful Advancement is necessar1-
" very rapid, but more so now than
ever before, due to the fact that we
must have the men to fill the vacan-
cies.
From information received from the
ships at sea, men are being promoted
t. the rating of Chief Petty officers,
(ranking with a regimental sergeant
major in the army after being in the
service only few months.
Up to a few months ago the navy
regulations read, g that regardless of
mans ability, he could not be pro-
NOTED to this rank on his first enlist
ment" After man reaches the rank
OF Chief Petty officer that affords him
a straight path to, in a very short
time, receive commission.
As it can be seen, all of the young
men enlisted through this station have
been promoted at least twice, some OF
them as many as three and four times
Among this number was one well
known Americas boy, who has beer
IN the service only few months, mas
Just in the last week been appointed
to the Naval Academy at Annapolis
Md, for the training of an ensign
which is the first rank OF naval com
missioned officer. This commission
can also be obtained from the enlisted
ranks and it is not necessary to &C
through the academy to receive it.
Enlistments are now omen to al
men, IS to 35, who are not registered
and to those if they obtain from theil
local Gard certificate of discharge
Now Is your chance to get in ant
make eool if you wish to enlist il
the navy, the rlghs arm of our nationa
defense. A. NJ. FERILLO,
Navy Recruiting Station, Americas