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Dates: during 1940-1949
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All Boys. The commission's recommendation for U.M.T. provides that every American boy, except the physically handicapped, be drafted at 18, or after he finishes secondary school. Training would be in two parts. The first stage would be basic training in camp or aboard ship for six months. From...
The second stage of the training would allow a number of options, which in length and intensity would equal at least six months. The options: 1) another six months' training, after which a trainee would have discharged all his obligations short of war; 2) enlistment in one of the...
The military would have charge of the actual training, but an overall commission of two civilians and one military man would be in command. Local boards, like draft boards, would register the neighbors' sons. Other civilian boards would keep constant watch on the welfare of the trainees. Army men...
U.M.T., said the commission, would provide a constantly replenished reservoir of trained manpower which a year after M-day could be mobilized into an effective force of around 7,500,000. Estimated cost of the program: $1,750,000,000 a year, less than the sum spent in one week...
Congressmen were cold. There was little chance that any U.M.T. bill would be proposed in this session. On this point the commission had something to say. Even if the program were started this year, it would be six to seven years before it was functioning properly. Period during which the...