WW1 US navy blue jacket manual

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When you go to boot camp even today you get a blue jacket manual no different than WW1

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A few more pages out of the book.

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Being that I was a boatswain mate the pipe caught my attention.

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Some more diagrams on the 1911 and the Springfield 1903 rifle.

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The pay the US navy paid sailors. Immigrants seemed to get less pay. And you could be a petty officer with the same rank but depending on the job you did you could get more or less pay not like todays Navy were if you were a E-5 everyone got the same pay even if you did a different job.