“Robeson
County Boy is U.S. Marksman,” from The
Robesonian, Lumberton, Monday, March 5,
1917
By hitting the
bulls-eye with unerring skill from the standing, kneeling, or sitting position,
Judge D. Floyd of Fairmont, this county, has qualified as a marksman in the
United States Marine Corps. He was recently assigned for duty on the big
battleship Maine, according to an official bulletin from Washington.
This keen-eyed
young man received his preliminary instruction in gunnery at the Marine Port
Royal training station. He made an excellent score at “slow and rapid” fire
before being transferred to the dreadnaught Maine. The Maine is now somewhere
on the Atlantic, alert and ready to answer a call in the defense of the United
States.
Young Floyd is a
son of Mr. Preston Floyd of Fairmont, and he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps
at its Winston-Salem recruiting station on Oct. 28, 1916.
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