Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Army spokesmen said yesterday that unless the world situation becomes worse, no more National Guardsmen will be called into service. The six divisions now under arms will be released after their 21 month tour of duty...
Major-General Maxwell D. Taylor, Army training and planning chief, also said that regular Army divisions will form the backbone of the Army under these plans, which call for the release of about 233,800 National Guardsmen and reservists...
Taylor said that 98,000 Guardsmen were on duty at the beginning of the year, not including 19,800 officers and men who entered Federal service shortly after...
...House decided to send the measure back to the Committee on Constitutional Law without debate. It did, however, reject a suggestion that National Guardsmen still in high school be deferred from active service until they graduate...
...armed forces to 2,771,121 men by next June, including 1,264,900 in the Army which had only 593,000 men when the Korean war began. Since then 130,000 reserves have been called to active duty, 100,800 men have been drafted, 50,000 National Guardsmen have been federalized, about 62,800 men have volunteered. Last week the Army issued a call for 50,000 draftees in February...