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...would be divided into two sections, both dovetailing into U.M.T.: a "ready" reserve in which all U.M.T. graduates would serve three years, and a "standby" reserve in which they would serve out the last four of their eight years' service. In full-strength units, the ready reserves would drill once a week, go to summer camp two weeks a year. They would be subdivided into "early" and and "late" units, the earlies able to spring into action almost overnight, the lates within a few months. Units would have 50% of their equipment on hand, pick up the rest...
...perhaps to die, within four weeks after leaving civilian life. Many of these junior officers saw no action in World War II. None received the "six months' advanced U.S. combat training" proposed for the 1951 West Point graduate, and none partook of even one hour's drill in the five years between wars . . . And how about giving a little consideration to the 40 men who must serve under these officers...
...industry has been asked to drill 43,000 new wells this year and to expand refining capacity by a million barrels a day. It can do so if it gets the tubular steel...
...Russian gun, nicknamed "the Goose" by G.I.s because of its long (13 ft.) barrel, fires a shell with an extra-heavy propellant charge, can drill a clean hole through 5½ inches of armorplate at 500 yards. Mounted on wheels, it is light enough (about 2,500 Ibs.) to be moved about handily by its crew of five. U.S. tank commanders and crews took the Goose with professional calm. Said one tankman: "For months we have had it soft. Now we have to fight our tanks as tanks should be fought...
...Drill & Dance. One casualty of the boom is probably the most memorable of the early filmed commercials. The famed close-order drill of Lucky Strike cigarettes so hypnotized viewers that they are now being eased off television. Explains an agency executive: "No one ever paid any attention to what we were saying, they just watched the cigarettes. Those marching cigarettes were so successful that they weren't successful; they were so good, they were no good...