Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More or less under arms, when the Army last totted up (Nov. 21), were 106,833 mobilized National Guardsmen, 387,811 three-year Regulars, only 18,000 of an expected 90,000 one-year draftees and volunteers. Call of 96.000 additional Guardsmen must be delayed (anywhere from one week to two and a half months) ; so must further drafts. Only heartening item in this list was the rapid increase in Regulars (up from 242,000 since last June). Putting Regular enlistments ahead of Guard mobilization and the draft made sense, because the Regulars must bear the burden of training...
...camps for National Guardsmen, only 15 were on construction schedule. Two were two and a half months behind, one was 60 days behind. Lags in 22 others ranged from one to five weeks. Even sadder than the delays were some of Mr. Stimson's excuses. The Quartermaster Corps (which handles most Army construction) located a big camp in southern Iowa. Building was under way before the corps discovered what the Department of Agriculture must have known all the time: that the arid area did not have enough water to supply the camp. So the bumbling quartermasters had to start...
This week, at posts along the Atlantic seaboard from South Carolina to the Canadian border, soldiers of Lieut. General Hugh Aloysius Drum's First Army fell in for special Armistice Day formations. To hardened Regulars, newly mobilized National Guardsmen, Organized Reserves, one-year volunteers-all the components of the new U. S. Army except conscripts-officers intoned an order-of-the-day. To many a top sergeant, Hugh Drum's dicta on how to train the new army sounded new & strange. Expecting that it would, Hugh Drum had pointedly commanded his subordinates to post his order where their...
Caribbean Outposts. Rimming the Caribbean on the north are Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Cuba has a well-trained, well-fed, well-housed, well-equipped Army of 8,000, plus 6,000 Rural Guardsmen and 48,000 reserves. Cuba has also a Navy of 2,000 men, manning two escort ships, five gunboats, an armed transport and six coast-guard ships. Air Force: 116 men, 16 planes. The Dominican Republic's Army, trained by the U. S. Army and Marines, numbers 3,300 men; its Navy consists of four coastal patrol boats and a transport. Haiti...
...apparent from the set-up that the draftee has virtually no chance, and superficial college courses in military subjects won't particularly help. With 125,000 reserve officers organized in units ready for call, and the positions in the framework now projected filled with regular Army officers or National Guardsmen, the action of General Marshall is little more than the offering of an improvement prize...