Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However, the new six-month program may change this situation radically. The draft call appears to be stabilizing at the rate of about 170,000 men per year--approximately 13,000 per month--and in all probability it will remain at this level until 1959 or 1960. However, the Army also intends to build up its reserve force over the next two years...
...Draft May Take Younger...
...month program, primarily a reserve measure, draws off a large number of men who noramlly would enlist for three years or be drafted for two, a considerable reduction of men available for the draft could result. Such a reduction possibly could lead to a draft which called almost every physically fit male and even to a lowering of the age at which most men are being taken--currently 22 years...
...rate, the draft situation will probably develop into a fairly serious thing for college students during the next two or three years. There are only about 18,000 eligible 1-A's left in the 23-25 age group at present, and therefore the burden of this year's expected 180,000-man draft call will fall on the 22-year olds...
...will be taken, unless the 180,000 figure is lowered. Some of the available 22-year-olds will join some reserve plan, putting additional pressure on the 22-year age group and cutting further into the 21-year-old group. If conditions continue in roughly the same manner, the draft might be calling on 20-year-olds...