Word: militiaization
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...part in the War): map reading, the organization and duties of the various branches of the service. No schoolboy may be promoted to a higher class or receive a degree unless he passes his military science "with profit." At 18 a schoolboy becomes part of the Fascist militia and is given training in specialized branches of the service...
Military. At the age of 21 Italian boys will pass from the militia to the regular army to serve their 18 months with the colors...
Post-Military. For ten years after finishing his service the young man will be back in the Fascist militia, serving 20 days a year and having additional drills on Sundays and holidays...
...right, from the Fascist point of view, because his blackshirt youth organizations are machine-tailoring more soldiers than the Army conscript system. The Army numbers 250,000, but the Fascist Volunteer Militia, armed, drilled and equipped with every modern weapon, has reached nearly 400,000, with more youths constantly pushing up from the Avanguardisti which is fed in turn by the Fascist-drilled moppets who grow up constantly out of the Balilla...
...this was very fine but good Fascist morale requires the production of certified heroes. Last week the Fascist Militia moved to immortalize a young militiaman named Di Valero as its idea of a certified peacetime hero. In a competitive mountain-climbing hike he scrambled so far, so fast and so high that at last his nearest competitor gave up in exhaustion. Di Valero, emulating the "youth who bore 'mid snow and ice a banner with the strange device Excelsior!" kept climbing until finally he fainted and died of heart failure. This exploit, according to the editor of Milizia Fascista...