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...expected to consider the question this week. Says Air Force Major General Acker: "At the very least, some form of registration is necessary to provide a ready pool of people to call on if needed." In addition, according to Major General Maxwell Thurman, head of the Army's recruiting command, registration "will heighten the 18-year-old's awareness of the Army...
...Soviets also rely heavily on conscription to keep their armed forces bulging at 3.6 million- almost twice the number at the Pentagon's command. All 18-year-old Soviet male must report to their local draft boards. Young men supporting parent or in poor health will probably be exempted; full-time university students may also be excused. The vast majority of Soviet youths, however, are drafted into the army for two years. A Soviet private's pay: $6 a month...
Otis: I'm within seven months of coming from a field command in West Germany and dealing with our soldiers on a day-to-day basis. They are of good quality. They can do the job with the equipment that they've got. They're trainable. For our units in Europe, the training is more demanding than it was five years ago, and the soldiers are responding every bit as well and in some cases better. Though the equipment we are fielding is getting very complicated, we are building in a simple means of operating and repairing...
Pirie: You never had the military run that way before. And what would pay differentials like that do to the chain of command over a period of time? That's a question I can't answer...
...strong on Cambridge Common for months. When the soldiers needed barracks, Harvard agreeably moved to Concord for about a year. When the soldiers needed baths, they took them in the Charles River, often Sutton notes, "with disregard for modesty." General George Washington arrived June 17 to take command of the Continental Army in a ceremony on the Common...