effects. They will then be turned over to the supply officer for safe-keeping until such time as they are disposed of as directed by the executive officer in accordance with the Navy Regulations. Perishable articles will be disposed of as directed.

EFFECTS OF MEN GOING ON LEAVE

The master at arms shall receive the effects of men going on any extended leave, and shall be responsible for their safe-keeping.

ing the reserve in the particular capacity for which they are qualified, and in so doing the experience which they have gained and the loyalty which they have given to the service will be continued and not lost to the country.

The training duty required of reservists in order to maintain efficiency should serve to keep alive that love of the sea and the sea life which caused the individual to enter the regular or reserve service.

It should be noted that this act creates three classes of reserves, viz, Fleet Reserve, Volunteer Reserve, and Merchant Marine Reserve, which may be briefly and broadly summarized as follows:

The active Fleet Reserve consisting of drilling and training units for officers and F-1 men entering largely from civil life. The inactive Fleet Reserve consisting of former enlisted men of the Navy who, except for occasional periods of training, may be regarded as in a retired status. However, both the active and inactive branches of the Fleet Reserve are designed to furnish crews, immediately upon mobilization, for certain combatant ships (largely of the destroyer type, or auxiliaries) of the Navy. The Fleet Reserve also contains a number of aviation squadrons and divisions.

The Volunteer Naval Reserve represents an inactive organization of trained individuals of which the general service class will go largely to combatant ships of the Navy upon mobilization, while the special service or technicist class, being composed of men prominent in civil pursuits, will be called upon to assist in developing the shore organization of the Navy. In view of various misconceptions as to the status of the

serve either in or with the reserve, and he is therefore to cooperate and aid in every possible way in promoting the efficiency of the reserve; since with every shrinkage which may be brought about by international reduction in the regularly established services of defense, the function of the trained reserve is being correspondingly increased in importance.

FLEET NAVAL RESERVE

For the information of the service there is added hereto a brief statement showing in considerable detail of what classes of men the Fleet Naval Reserve is composed, viz:

H-2202, Bureau of Navigation Manual, enlisted men of the Fleet Naval Reserve. The enlisted personnel of the Fleet Naval Reserve shall be composed of:

(a) Men enlisted in the Naval Reserve for four years, or with extended enlistments, who are transferred to the Fleet Naval Reserve. (Secs. 4, 22, 23, and 26 of the act.) (Class F-1.)

NOTE.-Made up of men enlisted direct in class F-1, of the Naval Reserve or men transferred thereto from the Volunteer Naval Reserve.

(b) Men who are assigned by the Secretary of the Navy for four years' service in the Naval Reserve after one or more complete enlistments in the Regular Navy. (Class F-2.)

NOTE. These assignments must be consummated immediately after discharge from the Navy and by the commanding officer issuing the discharge, but only in those ratings prescribed from time to time by the Bureau of Navigation.

(c) Men who, previous to July 1, 1925, were transferred from the Regular Navy to the Naval Reserve Force after 16 or 20 years' naval service and were