The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-12
MARINE CORPS NOW
 OFFERS EDUCATION
Fifth Regiment Headquar- ters at Quantico, Va,
 Equipped as a College

Birmingham marine recruiting office an- .nounces an opportunity to take course in vocational training or to learn highly paid mechanical trade at the expense of the government. and at the same time
 to become member of the Fifth regi-
 ment of marines, one of tne most famous regiments of the war which helped save
 Paris at the Chateau-Thierry action, June SIS, ISIS, is offered by a new re- cruiting order of the United States ma rine corps
 The order specifies that recruits will he accepted for duty with the Fifth regi- ment only, which regiment is stationed at Quantico, Va, where a marine school providing for vocational and technical training for marines is located
 Recruits accepted in this class must be .of the highest type and have the best qualifications as to physique and char acter. They are to be attached to the Eix- peditionary brigade station at Quantico, of which the Fifth regiment is a part
 This brigade is a body made up of picked men from the marine corps, held in readiness and in constant training for
 war or expeditionary duty. In case of emergency they are the first marines to be sent.
 While at Quantico they are afforded an opportunity of enrolling in the marine corps school there Classes in this school occupy the entire afternoon every day in
 the week except Saturday and Sunday,
 T.Aa HusIl ..4,t duty being performed in the morning.
 Most of the subjects usually taught in a grammar school high school and bust ness college are taught at Quantico, and
 in addition, special courses are given
 which fit men to become specialists and
 experts at a number of highly paid
 trades and professions such as automo-
 bile engineering. electrical engineering carpentry, blacksmithing brick, stone
 and concrete masonry and number Of others,
 GREAT SCHOOL By special order of the commanding off, ficer, Maj Gen. John A. Iejeune, who commanded the famous Second division, overseas, the entire post of Quantico has been put as far as possible on school as well as a military basis, with an equipment of which any of our civilian military schools might be proud; with baseball, football and track teams which compete on even terms with those of the best civilian schools.
 Most of the teachers in the Quantfco schools are officers selected for theIf special qualifications. and among them are graduates of the Massachusetts In stitute of Technology. Stevens Institute. the United States Naval Academy and many great civilian universities. as well as men who received their practical training in such great industrial cor porations as the Bethlehem Steel Com pany. the Westinghouse Electric Com pany, the General Electric Company and many others.
 Special attention is given to foreign language, as many marines have no op- portunity to study at first hand condi- tions in the French and I.atin-American countries to which large part of our exports go. :, Re-enlisted men who have alreadS served in the army, navy and marine corps are eligible to accept this offer ane | will be sent to Quantico from any part o' | the United States. Men who have never served in any branch of the service, how ever. may enlist under this offer only l from the states east of line drawn l from the western border of North Da-
 kota to the western extremity of Texas l There is a similar school on the PaciIl, coast serving the other half of the United States.