Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...duration." Last week the War Department let drop a hint that "the duration" would run six to twelve months beyond a year. Announced reasons: equipment shortages, delays in mobilization had cut down actual training time so that it would take at least six months more to whip the Guardsmen into real soldiers...
...this week 255,000 Guardsmen, 213,000 conscripts or volunteer trainees were in uniform. Trainees also were nominally in for one year. But the Selective Service Act provides for the extension of their tours as well, can keep them under arms for the duration of the emergency...
...final indignity is being tutored in military affairs by "Thursday Night Soldiers" otherwise known as National Guardsmen. These little men stand around discussing among themselves how to train the draftees and never seem able to come to an agreement...
...Jersey regiment finally accepted him, but not for long. Army men recalled a law that forbade the transfer of National Guardsmen from one State to another. Private Earl was put under technical arrest. He stayed on at Fort Dix for five months without pay, picked up small change from kindly officers who hired him as their dog robber...
...Guardsmen are trained in the theory of hand-to-hand defense, how to use smoke bombs and hand grenades, and how to sabotage behind the enemy's lines. One cute little trick to decapitate an enemy was learned by Greene while he was visiting Asterloo, Cheese cutters in England are sharp wires with handles at each end. The Guardsman holds both handles in his right hand, slips the wire loop over a German's head from behind, holds his left hand against the enemy's head, and pulls. The wire passes through a man's neck with the same fluid...