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...Washington last week a Senate appropriations subcommittee heard a 1956 version of the re-enlistment blues. As sung by Assistant Defense Secretary Carter L. Burgess, it was a different tune. It did not concern the "dog soljer"; it was about highly trained specialists whose skills range from running an infantry squad to directing propulsion operations on an atomic submarine. Re-enlistment rates, said Burgess, are dangerously low, particularly among the men who are the most expensive to train, whose capacities are greatest and whose talents would be "the most critical in modern war." Some of the statistics...
...more Americans choose the military for a career? The most important reason is the inability of the armed forces to match private industry's two brightest attractions: higher pay and better living conditions, especially for family men. To meet the problem, Burgess offered a couple of realistic solutions: require longer service but offer larger re-enlistment bonuses to highly skilled and hard-to-get specialists. Private industry could help, he believes, by undertaking more of its own training programs instead of using the armed forces as a training school...
...soljer," Burgess would drop those unwilling or unable to absorb atom-age training. Said he: "We have no place for the half-lazy, the half-talented in today's complex military structure...
...Where Burgess' suggestions counted most, they scored heavily. Members of the Senate subcommittee urged him to incorporate them in recommended legislation, promised full support when they reach Congress...
...Gustafson, John A. Hamilton, Jr., John S. Hammond III, Philip P. Holtz, William T. Murray, Eugene F. Proctor, David R. Raty, Richard H. Seaton (captain), James D. Stanley 2d, John N. Trainer III, Stepphen L. Wailes, Edgar S. Walsh, Kenneth W. Washburn, Arthur A. Windecker III, Theodore P. Burgess III (manager). Minor 'H' in major colors to Paul Levin '57 (associate manager...