Word: fs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days later, the Congressmen hopefully tackled Assistant Secretary of Defense Anna Rosenberg. How about the 799,000 4-Fs? "Here is what the country is disturbed about," explained Chairman Carl Vinson. "We read where some football player or prizefighter, able to draw $10,000 a season and perform all the work of star athletes, just hasn't got the physical strength to carry a rifle, a hand grenade, or to cook." And as for those disqualified for mental deficiencies, "even if a man can't read Latin or Greek, he can do a little fighting...
...Like Anyone Else." Mrs. Rosenberg replied that physical standards were already down to World War II levels, that mental standards were being lowered "as far as security will permit." The 4-F files were under review, she said, and she estimated that about 150,000 4-Fs could be drafted for limited service (a figure she later revised to 75,000 to 80,000). "Athletes will be regarded like anyone else," she said. "If an athlete has a punctured eardrum, he will be inducted, because men with punctured eardrums are taken...
...World War II, the U.S. armed forces had passed over 6,419,700 4-Fs on the theory that they were not physically fit for general military service. This was a waste of valuable manpower, argued Colonel Warner Bowers, chief surgical consultant for the Army, last week. Most 4-Fs could have been used for less strenuous service behind the lines. His recommendation: abolish the 4-F category, classify such men for special limited duty, defer them until they are needed...