Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most significant upshots of Defense Secretary Wilson's recent "draft dodging" accusations, leveled against the National Guard several months ago, will become effective five days hence, on April first...
This means that several programs, which Wilson would probably cite as "draft-dodging" techniques, will go out of existence on the first of next month. These programs require no active duty, but merely from 6 to 11 years of ready reserve depending upon the program chosen. The ready reserve involves weekly two-hour drill sessions forty-eight times during the year (actually this can be lowered to a minimum of 42 times a year) and two weeks each summer at a training camp...
This extension of the "six-month" program has called for a reexamination of the current selective service system and a consideration of what the draft situation will be over the next two or three years. Each year approximately 1.2 million men reach the draft age of 18 1/2. In the recent past, about 13 percent of this group has not been drafted and about 22 percent has been rejected as physically unfit. Of the former group, a small percent belonged to the National Guard, but the majority escaped all service...
...assistant, John Hanes Jr., 32, and his wife Lucy, and perhaps his doctor, to his quarters for cocktails (a rye on the rocks for the Secretary), and there the Middle East would dominate the conversation. One day Dulles got out his yellow scratchpad and pencil and wrote out a draft of what he called "A United States Declaration on the Middle East." But his thoughts had not jelled, and he tore up the declaration without having it typed...
...National Guard, historically more powerful than the Regular Army in political battles, the hour had come for counterattack. Reviewing an Army directive requiring six months' active field training for new Guardsmen after April 1, Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson labeled Guard Korean war recruiting "a draft-dodging business" (TIME, Feb. 11), and Chief of Staff Maxwell D. Taylor lamented the inadequacy of the Guard's preparedness...