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- (a) The State Guard is part of the active militia of the State. All of the members of the State Guard... The State Guard shall consist of the following
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- 1. The Adjutant General, and the commissioned and enlisted personnel comprising his staff.
- 2. Infantry, consisting of not more than 13 regiments, including a quartermasters regiment to be organization on the same basis as hereinafter provided for infantry regiments.
- 3. The nautical and marine force with an enlisted strength not in excess of 700 men consisting of not more than five naval units and two companies of marines...
- 1. The Adjutant General, and the commissioned and enlisted personnel comprising his staff.
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- 2. The Adjutant General may organize
the nautical and marine force of the State Guard into not more
than five separate naval units designated as “ship’s
companies” and not more than two separate companies of marines.
- Each ship’s company shall consist of not more than 100 enlisted men. The officers of the ship’s company shall be one lieutenant senior grade, two lieutenants junior grade, and three ensigns. Warrant officers and rate men selected from the enlisted men of a ship’s company shall be of the same number and grades as are prescribed by the laws and regulations of the United States for similar organizations in the United States Navy.
- Each company of marines shall consist of not more than 100 enlisted men. Each company shall be commanded by a captain or a first lieutenant and shall have not to exceed three lieutenants in addition thereto. The noncommissioned offices for each company of marines shall be of the same number and grades as are authorized or prescribed by the laws and regulations of the United States for companies of marines of comparable strength.
- A chaplain with the rank of lieutenant junior grade shall be appointed for the nautical and marine force.
- 1st Ships Company: Cannery motor boat patrol, coastal motor patrol, Airport, Big Sur, etc.
Naval Units Los Angeles
- Headquarters, 1st Battalion: Santa Monica, Ocean Park, Santa Monica Public Utilities, etc.
- 2nd thru 4th Ships Companies: Los Angeles Armory, Ocean Park and Lick Piers
Marine Units
- 1st Marine Company: Public Utilities Santa Monica, Ocean Park and Lick Piers, Los Angeles Armory, Newport Harbor
- 1st Ships Company CCC Camp Big Sur, Andersons Canyon, SRA Building, etc.
Naval Units Los Angeles
- Headquarters, 1st Battalion: Los Angeles docks and warehouses, Los Angeles mobile patrol, etc.
- 2nd Ships Company: Los Angeles Armory, San Pedro docks and warehouses, etc.
- 3rd Ships Company: San Pedro Lend Lease docks and warehouses, etc.
- 4th Ships Company: Newport Bay Harbor
- 5th Ships Company: San Pedro Lend Lease docks and warehouses, etc.
Marine Units
- 1st Marine Company: Long Beach Harbor Command, Edison Power Substation, etc.
- 2nd Marine Company: San Pedro Docks and Warehouses
October 1942
- 1st Ships Company: San Francisco Water Department
- 2nd thru 5th Ships Companies: Golden Gate Bridge San FrancisCompany:
- 1st & 2nd Marine Companies: San Francisco Water Department
Temporary flagship, aboard which will be Lieut-Comdr. WiIIiam Christensen, the naval guard's commanding officer, is the cruiser Accomac, volunteered by Verner Britton of Balboa.
Maneuvers will be ended by a grand review.
It was announced that minimum age requirement for recruits had been reduced from 21 to 18, enabling hundreds of patriotic young Southern California men to join the naval guard.
Recruits will be sworn in tomorrow night at the state armory in Exposition park, it was announced.
Thirty promotions, acquired through specialist training, were announced by Lieut. Comdr. William Christensen, commanding the first battalion.
The comprehensive training course was inaugurated under authority of Brig. Gen. J.O. Donovan, adjutant general, to quickly fit enlisted men for advancement from the ranks.
Promotions include:
Thomas S. Estabrook, warrant boatswain; Russell E. Arbogast, warrant machinist; Gordon W. Gardner, chief yeoman; Harold M. Scher, chief yeoman; Leo C. Manes, chief storekeeper; Robert P. Elliott, yeoman, first class; Tom Dickinson, chief boatswain's mate; Harold E. Houghton, chief gunner's mate; Fred C. Ripley, chief signalman.
John E. Patterson, chief carpenter's mate; Ernest A. Payne, quartermaster, second class; Charles H. Widmayer, yeoman, third class; Kenneth M. Kees, chief boatswain's mate; Robert J. Rush, chief machinist's mate; Arthur Brady, quartermaster, first class.
Christian Hendriks, boatswain's mate, second class; Beverly Van Forsyth, quartermaster, second class; Jesse I. Bodkin, gunner's mate, second class; Paul R. Eckerson, gunner's mate, second class; Carl Howk, electrician's mate, second class; John W. Osborne, machinist's mate, second class.
John Campbell, yeoman, second class; Robert Sterner, signalman, second class; Albert Werstlein, coxswain; Norman Blakey, boatswain's mate, first class; Earl A. Condon, quartermaster, first class; Charles L. Lewin, boatswain's mate, second class; Oliver Osborne, quartermaster, second class; Louis E. Mathews, machinist's mate, second class.
