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...manpower quotas without drafting 18-year-olds through a universal military service and training program, the Army announced that it was closing its doors on the most obvious source of available manpower. Unless the world situation suddenly worsens, said Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, the Army's new G3* (assistant chief of staff for operations), the Army will call up no more National Guard divisions or major units of its Organized Reserve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Through the Loophole | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

Forrestal had already acted. The story around the Pentagon was that he telephoned Steelman and told him that the wording of the order was unthinkable. He sent the document to Major General Harold Bull, deputy director of G3, with instructions to take out the "unthinkable" passages and write an order which could be issued without scaring the wits out of the whole nation, if not the world. When General Bull finished his draft it was forwarded to Harry Truman on his campaign train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Little Picayunish Things | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...four-engined Andy Andrews was too valuable to keep on any Army shelf. When General George Marshall became Chief of Staff he brought Andrews back as his G3, the first airman on the General Staff. His war assignments next took him to the Panama defense command, then to command of all forces in the Middle East, finally to London and the European theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND,THE DRAFT,MORALE: Not in Bed | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

Last week the U.S. people got two reports on the state of their new Army. One was from Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall. The other was from Brigadier General Harry Lewis Twaddle,† who last week took over the General Staff division (G3) in charge of Army mobilization, operations, organization and training. Gist of both reports: the Army is over the hump. It is far better off than was the U.S. Army of 1917. It will soon be the first Army-in-being, ready to fight, which the U.S. ever had before entering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: How's It Coming? | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

...G3. For end results, most important man on the General Staff is G3. His job is training the Army and operating it in the field. When George Marshall was appointed Chief of Staff, he set the conservatives of the Army back on their heels by picking for G-3 the first Air Corps officer ever to head a General Staff division: deep-chested, friendly Frank Maxwell Andrews. Onetime cavalryman, Frank Andrews was the first head of the GHQ Air Force as temporary Major General, went back to a colonelcy when his tour of duty was over, came back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Military Brains | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

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