On December 4, 1918, recruiting on a very limited scale was resumed by order of the Secretary of the Navy. On that date also, enrollments in the Marine Corps Reserve were stopped.
Applicants, rejections, enlistments, etc., regular Marine Corps, not including reserves but including inductees, April, 1917, to November, 1918.
| Date. | Applicants. | Rejected by commanding officer.[1] | Rejected by medical officer.[2] | Eloped. | Declined oath. | Enlistments. | Strength Marine Corps. |
| Apr. 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 13,214 |
| Apr. 30 | 14,607 | 41 | 11,673 | 10 | 19 | 2,864 | 15,813 |
| May 31 | 15,498 | 74 | 10,039 | 40 | 50 | 5,295 | 20,932 |
| June 30 | 15,905 | 47 | 11,735 | 16 | 34 | 4,073 | 24,772 |
| July 31 | 11,778 | 21 | 8,183 | 22 | 44 | 3,508 | 27,045 |
| Aug. 31 | 6,275 | 37 | 4,006 | 7 | 4 | 2,221 | 29,861 |
| Sept. 30 | 4,846 | 29 | 3,996 | 5 | 5 | 811 | 30,322 |
| Oct. 31 | 4,335 | 33 | 3,661 | 5 | 1 | 635 | 30,576 |
| Nov. 30 | 5,577 | 14 | 4,942 | 2 | 2 | 617 | 30,855 |
| Dec. 31 | 6,788 | 22 | 5,305 | 4 | 5 | 1,452 | 32,016 |
| Jan. 31 | 5,472 | 29 | 3,981 | 5 | 3 | 1,454 | 33,184 |
| Feb. 28 | 5,915 | 31 | 5,772 | 4 | 3 | 105 | 33,045 |
| Mar. 31 | 5,037 | 18 | 4,734 | 2 | 4 | 279 | 33,093 |
| Apr. 30 | 15,958 | 44 | 12,996 | 3 | 5 | 2,910 | 35,690 |
| May 31 | 18,336 | 73 | 12,956 | 7 | 22 | 5,278 | 40,722 |
| June 30 | 23,864 | 70 | 18,609 | 17 | 36 | 5,132 | 45,384 |
| July 31 | 20,162 | 224 | 11,767 | 9 | 10 | 8,152 | 52,712 |
| Aug. 31 | 17,286 | 115 | 11,528 | 5 | 40 | 5,598 | 57,628 |
| Sept. 30 | 16,175 | 199 | 13,484 | 5 | 83 | 2,404 | 59,556 |
| Oct. 31 | 12,176 | 2 | 8,923 | .. | 1 | 3,250 | 62,142 |
| Nov. 30 | 13,284 | 2 | 9,129 | .. | 2 | 4,151 | 65,489 |
| Total | 239,274 | 1,125 | 177,419 | 168 | 373 | 60,189 | |
[1] Rejections by commanding officer include minors whose parents refused consent, married men whose wives refused consent, and men with criminal records or who were otherwise undesirable.
[2] Rejections by medical officer include all rejections at recruiting office as well as those rejected by the medical officer at the recruit depot to which they were transferred.
ENLISTMENTS BY STATES.
The following table shows the number of men enlisted in the Marine Corps, not including reserves enrolled but including inductees, between April 1, 1917, and November 11, 1918. These figures do not include the 13,214 enlisted men already in the Marine Corps on April 6, 1917:
| Alabama | 313 | Nevada | 86 |
| Arizona | 210 | New Jersey | 1,251 |
| Arkansas | 290 | New Hampshire | 67 |
| California | 2,527 | New Mexico | 25 |
| Colorado | 1,262 | New York | 6,782 |
| Connecticut | 240 | North Carolina | 488 |
| Delaware | 72 | North Dakota | 225 |
| District of Columbia | 451 | Ohio | 4,968 |
| Florida | 110 | Oklahoma | 384 |
| Georgia | 674 | Oregon | 1,006 |
| Illinois | 4,959 | Pennsylvania | 4,365 |
| Idaho | 508 | Rhode Island | 64 |
| Indiana | 1,182 | South Carolina | 66 |
| Iowa | 607 | South Dakota | 145 |
| Kansas | 673 | Tennessee | 1,418 |
| Kentucky | 592 | Texas | 2,205 |
| Louisiana | 832 | Utah | 898 |
| Maine | 24 | Vermont | 21 |
| Massachusetts | 1,957 | Virginia | 617 |
| Maryland | 867 | Washington | 1,767 |
| Michigan | 2,115 | West Virginia | 598 |
| Minnesota | 2,581 | Wisconsin | 876 |
| Missouri | 3,721 | Wyoming | 92 |
| Mississippi | 297 | ||
| Montana | 1,205 | Total | 57,144 |
| Nebraska | 461 |
Statistics that will show the exact number of officers and enlisted men from each State are being prepared.