[PeterPrinciple]

NAVY EASES ITS TESTS

Eye and Teeth Requirements for Reserve Are Lowered

Eye and teeth requirements for service in the Naval Reserve have been changed to make it possible for more applicants to enlist for active duty. It was announced here yesterday by Lieutenant William G Morrison, in charge of Navy recruiting at 67 Broad Street.

Naval Reserve applicants, who must be between 17 and 50 years old, will now be enlisted if they have “just sufficient teeth or suitable replacements to perform satisfactory biting and chewing functions.”

Under old methods of testing for vision the Navy required every applicant to read at fifteen feet what normal vision would read at twenty feet. Under the new system the applicant will be enlisted if with one eye he can read at six feet what normal vision would see at twenty, providing that with both eyes together the applicant can see at fifteen feet what normal vision sees at twenty.

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The pool of recruits is shrinking? A new recruit has got to eat to work so he better have some grinders............

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Naval Reserve applicants, who must be between 17 and 50 years old, will now be enlisted if they have “just sufficient teeth or suitable replacements to perform satisfactory biting and chewing functions.”

I wonder if my father would have passed the revised dental standards. He failed the navy exam a few months earlier and wound up in the army.