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 and Training Them for the Navy

���Taking the chest measurement of a recruit. He is a fine specimen, with a chest expansion of four inches. At right: The recruit picks out skeins of yarn that harmonize in color, to determine whether or not he is color blind

��A bluejacket squad prac- ticing overhead firing with the ordinary service rifle. Their targets are a fleet of imaginary enemy airplanes

��The wireless telegraph room and equipment of a modern battleship. The operator

performs a service which is second in importance to none

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