Word: noncombatancy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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National Selective Service officials, convinced that Corstorphine is a genuine convert and "not just trying to get out of the Navy," decided to assign him to some sort of noncombat work...
Furthermore, the A.A.F. could utilize its returned combat pilots, as the Navy does, for noncombat flying. If a manpower deficit really exists, the committee found, it is "due largely to a failure to . . . utilize existing personnel...
...Land again urged a national service act. But last week the House Military Affairs Committee flatly declined to report a bill which would force 4-Fs into war work or Army labor battalions, asserting that the Army already has all the authority it needs to draft 4-Fs for noncombat service...
Combat strength of the A.A.F. is a military secret, carefully kept by A.A.F.'s commander. But some idea of its power can be drawn from Arnold's report of the operations of noncombat branches...
...Fleet has 613 warships, as against 383 three years ago, this after losses of 58 warships and transfers (to other nations or noncombat use) of 129 warships. Present warship tonnage (2,217,982 displacement tons) exceeds tonnage of 1940 fighting ships...