Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reserve of men with six months of U.M.T. training, the Army figures, would knock 1,000 hours off the 2,500 to 3,000 hours it takes to make a division ready for combat infantry duty (6,000 for airborne). After basic, the U.M.T. graduates would be organized into reserve units, would get more and specialized training. Called back, they could spring to active duty 40 to 60% combat ready...
...first sign of another Korea, the U.M.T. man in the early reserves would move into "warm" areas in Europe and Asia, thus freeing regular, fully trained troops for duty in "hot" battle areas. As the early reserves finished their final combat training, they would move out and the late reserves take their place...
...five: Chairman James W. Wadsworth, onetime New York Republican Congressman; M.I.T. ex-president Dr. Karl T. Compton; former Under Secretary of State William L. Clayton; retired Admiral Thomas Kincaid; Lieut. General R. S. McLain, onetime banker (Oklahoma City) and only National Guard officer to command a combat corps in World...
...been demonstrated that in combat in Korea, Negro soldiers serve more effectively in integrated units." With this terse announcement by the Army, Supreme Commander General Matt Ridgway last week broke up the Army's famous all-Negro 24th Infantry Regiment. Within six months, by his order, all segregated units in the Far East Command, both combat and service, will be abolished, and their men will be moved into units side by side with white troops...
...week's end, Communist combat strength was estimated at 620,000 men, with 300,000 of them on the ready along the 100-mile battlefront-the best Red military showing since the abortive May offensive...