Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department announced that two more increments of Guardsmen totaling nearly 37,000 would be called to the colors in November, bringing the total number of miltiamen mobilized this year...
...Army also had a shortage of barracks. Many World War I cantonments were long since abandoned, others were hardly fit for habitation. Some of the National Guardsmen whom President Roosevelt called up last fortnight must be housed in tents. First increments of volunteers and conscripts must be similarly sheltered unless (as the Army hopes) new barracks can be knocked together before the men go into service. Army officers at the end of July testified that if Congress promptly voted conscription and $1,100,000,000 in additional funds for pay and shelter, adequate housing could be built in time...
Enraged, Iron Guardsmen swarmed aboard another locomotive in the Timisoara railway yards, forced the engineer at pistol point to chase the Hohenzollern special. Like Keystone cops, other Guardsmen piled cursing into Timisoara taxis, bounced off full speed in a wild chase to head off the train at Jimbola on the frontier...
Initial Protective Force of 400,000 Regulars and National Guardsmen, to be the first troops to do actual fighting. Still counting that there would be an interval of several months between a declaration of war and actual fighting, Craig planned to flesh out this force with 330,000 volunteers and conscripts, thus building up a Protective Mobilization Force of 730,000. It would carry on while enough replacements were being trained to raise the active total to 1,000,000 (possibly...
This week, back at their home stations, National Guardsmen waited for the President's call for a year's active service, had the prospect of longer and bigger maneuvers to brush up basic combat lessons, develop the kind of teamwork the Germans have. Regulars hoped Congress would soon pass a conscription bill. For-besides men and equipment-what the Army needs is practice, practice, more practice. No Army man forgets that it took the Germans seven years...