US Marine Corps - The Black Vault

TO THE BUREAU OF ORDNANCE
in late March 1925, after only eight months in command, Lieutenant
Commander Turner was ordered to the Bureau of Ordnance fom
duty. He
was relieved by Lieutenant Commander Penn L. Carroll, Class oi1
1909, just
back from duty with the Naval Mission to Brazil. Turner drew a dead horse
of one month’s pay—$325—on 14 April 1925 to finance the trij o to Washington
and requested one month’s leave.
On 17 June 1925, Rear Admiral C. C. Bloch, Chief of the
Convnander Turner at about 45.
Bureau of
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