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... continue to improve our forces on a qualita- tive basis . We are keenly aware of the importance of attracting and retaining in the armed services the required numbers of career personnel both in the officer and enlisted grades . Our ...
... continue to improve our forces on a qualita- tive basis . We are keenly aware of the importance of attracting and retaining in the armed services the required numbers of career personnel both in the officer and enlisted grades . Our ...
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... continue . Secretary MILTON . Mr. Chairman , at the very outset I would like . to say that the Secretary of the Army ... continuing obligation . They are either enlistees or inductees who still have at least a year left . Our authorized ...
... continue . Secretary MILTON . Mr. Chairman , at the very outset I would like . to say that the Secretary of the Army ... continuing obligation . They are either enlistees or inductees who still have at least a year left . Our authorized ...
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... continue to be acute for several years to come . The abnormal expansion during the period from 1950 to 1952 will produce an abnormal attrition in 1955 , 1956 , and 1957. While the expansion of the Navy and Marine Corps to meet the ...
... continue to be acute for several years to come . The abnormal expansion during the period from 1950 to 1952 will produce an abnormal attrition in 1955 , 1956 , and 1957. While the expansion of the Navy and Marine Corps to meet the ...
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... continue to man the Air Force with 4 - year volunteers . Our experi- ence shows that the existence of the draft acts as an active stimulant to our volunteer program ; to the extent of 40 percent as stated by Secretary Smith . If we did ...
... continue to man the Air Force with 4 - year volunteers . Our experi- ence shows that the existence of the draft acts as an active stimulant to our volunteer program ; to the extent of 40 percent as stated by Secretary Smith . If we did ...
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... continuing to expand toward its goal of 137 wings . If we are to achieve our personnel goals we must not only continue to enlist young men who have no previous military experience , we must also do everything possible to reenlist more ...
... continuing to expand toward its goal of 137 wings . If we are to achieve our personnel goals we must not only continue to enlist young men who have no previous military experience , we must also do everything possible to reenlist more ...
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active duty Admiral HOLLOWAY Admiral RADFORD Air Force aircraft amendment Armed Forces armed services Army basic pay BATES BENNETT bill BLANDFORD BROOKS Captain MARTINEAU Career Compensation Act Career Incentive Act CHAIRMAN change of station chart civilian COLE Colonel CORBIN commander Commission committee Congress cost course deferment Department of Defense diving draft DRYDEN DURHAM effect engineers enlisted figures fiscal flying GAVIN going grade HARDY HERSHEY HINSHAW incentive pay induction KILDAY legislation lieutenant manpower Marine Corps ment military service MILLER months NACA Navy pay scales percentage period personnel present problem proposed question reduced Reserve retired pay RIVERS ROTC second lieutenant Secretary BURGESS Secretary STEVENS Secretary TALBOTT Secretary THOMAS Secretary WILSON Selective Service Selective Service Act Selective Service System Sergeant BULLARD statement strength subcommittee submarine Thank thing tion United warrant officers World War II
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Page 152 - And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it.
Page 678 - Mr. Chairman, I would like to put in the record at this point some correspondence I have had with General Fleming relative to this question.
Page 101 - The President is authorized, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to provide for the deferment from training and service under this Act in the land and naval forces of the United States of...
Page 127 - The Congress further declares that in a free society the obligations and privileges of serving in the armed forces and the reserve components thereof should be shared generally, in accordance with a system of selection which is fair and just, and which is consistent with the maintenance of an effective national economy.
Page 180 - ... prior to the date scheduled for his induction and pursuant to a proclamation by the Governor of a State to the effect that the authorized strength of any...
Page 104 - Congress further declares that adequate provision for national security requires maximum effort in the fields of scientific research and development, and the fullest possible utilization of the Nation's technological, scientific, and other critical manpower resources.
Page 239 - I would be less than frank if I did not tell you that we still have important deficiencies in our defense program.
Page 347 - To maintain, by timely and effective military action, the security of the United States, its possessions, and areas vital to its interest. 3. To uphold and advance the national policies and interests of the United States.
Page 180 - Guard to enable it to maintain its strength authorized by current appropriations, and prior to the issuance of orders for him to report for induction, enlists or accepts appointment in any such organized unit shall be deferred from training and service under this title so long as he continues to serve satisfactorily as a member of such organized unit.
Page 104 - II-A shall be placed any registrant whose continued service is found to be necessary to the maintenance of the national health, safety, or interest...