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VOLUME I

(PRINTED CHANGE NO. 5)

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY
HEADQUARTERS, U. S. MARINE CORPS
WASHINGTON, D. C. AUGUST, 1954

1. The attached printed page changes will be inserted in Volume I, Marine Corps Manual, and the corresponding pages removed
and destroyed. Previously published Advance Change Letters No. 1-5 through 5-5 shall also be removed and destroyed.

2. Upon the insertion of Printed Change No. 5, the below listed pages in Volume I are in force. This list shall be used to
verify the accuracy of the volume and retained for reference until Printed Change No. 6 is published. Pages NOT listed below,
other than the cover page, shall be removed from the manual and destroyed. In the following list, "O" is used to indicate a
page from the original printing of the manual, "1" indicates a page from Printed Change No. 1, etc. Pages found to be missing
should be requisitioned from the Marine Corps Clothing Depot, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

3. Effective with Printed Change No. 5, advance change letters to Volume I, Marine Corps Manual, are being discontinued. Future changes to this volume will be effected by Printed Changes only, through page inserts. An exception to this will be when the nature of a change is of such urgency that immediate promulgation is mandatory, in which case a routine order will be promulgated setting forth the desired changes. A subsequent Printed Change will, therefore, contain the changes promulgated in the routine order. In this respect, it is the intention of Headquarters, Marine Corps, to promulgate a Printed Change approximately every three months.

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4. Printed Change No. 5 contains certain revisions and changes which have not previously been published to the field. effected paragraphs and subparagraphs are indicated on the page inserts of Printed Change No. 5 by an arrow symbol. This symbol will reflect the last change on a given page and will not be removed until a subsequent revision or reprint of that page. Future Printed Changes to Volume I will indicate revisions and changes by the arrow symbol and will also contain a consolidated listing (as below) of the effected paragraphs and subparagraphs.

5. The following, in addition to those changes published in Advance Change Letters No. "1-5" through "5-5", is a list of the effected paragraphs and subparagraphs which have been revised as shown, and not previously published to the field in their revised form. Comparison with the old text will provide a rapid appraisal of the change:

a. In addition to the above, Chapter 49 has recently had extensive revision, with the result that paragraphs and figures contained therein required renumbering to allow for future expansion. Attention is invited to the new paragraph numbers, new figure numbers, and new Uniform Plates now contained in Chapter 49 and published in Printed Change No. 5. The following paragraphs and subparagraphs of Chapter 49 contain revisions not previously published to the field:

6. The pages on which the following two paragraphs are found were not printed in Printed Change No. 5. Accordingly, recipients are directed to make appropriate marginal notations in a manner similar to other suspended portions of this Volume: