Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1916 — IS THE YOUNGEST MARINE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IS THE YOUNGEST MARINE

Frederic C. Bradman, Jr., Aged Seven Years, Is a Corporal in His Second “Hitch.” Vallejo, Cal.— Although his parents didn’t raise him to be a soldier, Frederic C. Bradman, Jr., of Mare island, aged seven, years, has twice formally enlisted in the United States marine corps and is a corporal in his second “hitch,” to use the sea-soldier vernacular. Corporal Bradman wears a service stripe and a good-conduct medal as a reward for excellent service during his first enlistment and also “sports”

a sharpshooter’s badge that was won by proxy. The youngest marine has had two yeafs’ foreign service in Cuba, which will count as four years toward the thirty years necessary for retirement. And Corporal Bradman says he will re-enlist- ÜBtit he shall have served thirty years. Major Frederic L. Bradman, U. S. M. C„ father of the boy, is proud of the fact tha,t the regularly enlisted marines have accepted his son as a comrade and obey bis orders as corporal.