Word: coast
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...committee on public safety, the need of men for all branches of military service is urgent, and, although enlisting has been taking place rapidly, many more volunteers are needed to prepare the country adequately for actual warfare. In case of invasion we shall need 380,000 stationary coast guard volunteer troops and 500,000 mobile troops to defend the country from foreign enemies, and to prepare for such an event the Government has proposed to raise the regular army from 60,000 men to 250,000, the militia to 400,000, and to call for 500,000 volunteers. An army...
...Coast Patrol Plans Completed...
Plans for mobilizing the fleet on a war basis, establishing a coast patrol and protecting commerce were compiled February 28, but responsible authorities have stated that it will take six months to put the plans in operation. At that time there were 22 battleships and 75 other warships out of commission, without crews or ammunition and since many have not had steam up for six months they will need extensive repairs, 60 days being necessary to put them in commission, and four months to make then fit for fighting...
...members of the University to prepare themselves for war are many and various. Apart from the Infantry Reserve Officer's Corps, of which a training unit is established at the University, admission may be secured to any of the following: Cavalry Officers' Reserve Corps, Field Artillery Officers' Reserve Corps, Coast Artillery Officers' Reserve Corps, Medical (to include the reserve officers of the Medical Corps, Dental Corps, and Veterinary Corps, Officers' Reserve Corps, Adjutant General's Officers' Reserve Corps, Judge Advocate General's Officers' Reserve Corps, Inspector General's Officers' Reserve Corps, Quartermaster Officers' Reserve Corps, Engineer Officers' Reserve Corps, Ordnance...
...class 4, the Naval Coast Defence Reserve, "the commandant has authority to enroll anybody who would be useful on the war slate in this naval district. It embraces patrol boats, civil engineers, etc., anybody, in fact, whose services the commandant would need in various parts of the district. The main object of this class is to help secure a sufficient number of patrol boats properly manned and equipped...