Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Summoned eight military advisers (including his old friend, retired General George Marshall), six Congressmen and four Defense Department officials to hear a report from returning General James Van Fleet this week...
...Fleet's views also oppose those of Draft Director Lewis B. Hershey, who stated at the end of January that he was against proposals for lengthening the draft requirement for 24 to 36 months...
President Eisenhower yesterday came out strongly against extending draft service from 24 to 30 or 36 months, as recommended by General James A. Van Fleet...
...Fleet made his suggestion before the House Armed Services Committee, the House Armed Services Committee, saying that additional time from an extension would "better prepare our boys" to live through combat by giving them a more thorough basis training...
...Korea," Van Fleet told the congressmen, but "it must be a military victory." The only way to achieve such a victory, he continued, is to give our soldiers "a little more of what it takes to fight--battle training...