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CLOUDBUSTER
Saturday, December 2, 1944
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CLOUDBUSTER
Vol. 3—No. 12 Saturday, December 2, 1944
Published weekly under thie supervision of the Public
Relations Office at the U. S. Navy Pre-Flight School,
Chapel Hill, N. C., a unit of the Naval Air Primary
Training Command. Contributions are welcome from
all hands.
The Gloudbuster receives Camp Newspaper Service
material. Republication of credited matter prdhibited
without permission of CNS, War Department, 205 E.
42nd St., N. Y. C.
Lieut. Comde. James P. Raugh, USNR
Commanding Officer
Lleut. Comdr. Howard L. Hamilton, USNR
Executive Officer
Lieut. Leonard Eiserer, USNR
Public Relations Officer
Lieut, (jg) Francis Stann, USNR
Editor
Orville Campbell, Ylc
Associate Editor
Hew Officer Sum)/
Another survey of reserve officer personnel
is expected to be taken to determine their
desire for appointments in the Regular Navy,
it has been indicated in Washington, and in
this new survey personnel will be told exact
ly where they will stand as to date of rank
when appointed as USN.
Furthermore, reserve officers thus appoint
ed are expected to be given the same date
of rank standings as those held by Regular
Navy officers, all things being equal.
Secretary of the Navy James Forresta]
has intimated that he is not satisfied with
the outcome of the recent officer survey
taken of reserves. It was not a complete
success because the reserves did not know
where they would stand when a redistribu
tion of personnel was carried out after the
war.
Many felt, it is understood, that they would
go back to their permanent reserve grades
at the bottom of the list, which in most cases
is two or three, or even more, ranks below
their present temporary grades. As a re
sult, it is believed that many of the officers
who would have indicated a desire to stay
in the Regular Navy otherwise, would not
commit themselves.
It was pointed out that reserves holding
temporary promotions will have the same
standings as will Academy graduates and
other Navy Regulars. In other words, a Re
serve lieutenant and an Academy lieutenant
who rank of the same date will be in the
same bracket.
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SOMETHING NEW—Certain to see action for the Cloudbusters tonight are these five
basketball players. Top row, left to right, W. D. Meador, forward, and Tippy Dye, team
captain and guard. In center is S. A. Meserve, all-round utility man. Lower left is R.
E. Mehl, forward, and right is D. E. Leakey, a guard.
. . . On The Lighter Side . . .
I must go down to the roaring sea.
Where the winds blow strong and a wave’s
no she.
I must go down to the windy sea—
You’re damn right I must—they’re sending
me.
^ ^
A “highbrow” is a person educated beyond
his intelligence.
A far-western newspaper heads the list of
births, marriages and deaths briefly and to
the point:
“Hatched, Matched and Dispatched.”
H: H! $ * *
Artist: “Ah, perhaps, you, too, are a lover
of the beauties of Nature. Have you seen
the golden fingers of the dawn spreading
across the eastern sky, the red-stained, sul
phurous islets floating in the lake of fire in
the west, ragged clouds at midnight, blotting
out the shuddering moon?”
Farmer: “Nope, not lately. I’ve been oP
the wagon for over a year.”
^ ^ ^
Letter from a GI in the South Pacific ^
They are neither too young nor too old-"
there just ain’t any!
He ^ ^ ^ ^
This is a story about a Puzzled Pole:
He lived on the border between Russia an<^
Poland and worried about it for years, “I'm
a man withouta. country,” he said, “I don’t
know where I live.” So eventually he got ^
state surveyor to come his way and do a
special job of surveying.
“You live,” said the surveyor, “in Po'
land.”
“Thank God!” cried the Pole throwing his
hat in the air with glee. “No more of those
terrible Russian winters!”
Male Call
by Milton Caniff, creator of "Terry and the Pirates '
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we MOVEC? UP ON
SOISSON^ IN '10...
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WOODS WITH NO SLEEP
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SLUG FOR. EVERY VARP
WE TOOK...IN THE WHEAT
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.py THE TIME THEY KELIEVED US
I WA$ WALKIN^ IN AAY SLEEP... SAY./
WE'LL HAVE TO BE (5ETTIN' BACK
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Copj'fight 1944 by Milron Caniff, distributed by Camp Newspaptr Service