Word: noncombatant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...registration was to prepare for a draft of combat troops. Since women are excluded from combat,* Congress concluded that they would not be needed in the event of a draft, and therefore decided not to register them." He said Congress had determined that even with women restricted to noncombat positions, registering them "would be positively detrimental to the important goal of military flexibility." Reason: in emergencies, armies sometimes use support personnel to fill frontline holes...
...sending of U.S. military advisers to El Salvador. Six Navy training and maintenance advisers have already been ordered there. In an obvious attempt to test public opinion, Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker remarked after a meeting with Reagan: "It is entirely appropriate for this country to dispatch noncombat advisers in small numbers-50, 100, 150-to tell these people how to defend themselves...
...short 1,650 pilots (the retention rate for Navy pilots has dropped from 62% in 1977 to 31% in 1979). The Army still has its 16 authorized divisions, but the ten based in the continental U.S. are understrength, and a confidential Army report rated six of them as "noncombat ready." Overall, the Navy is short 20,000 petty officers, the Army 7,000 NCOS. One of the most important military requirements is the capacity to airlift combat troops to a crisis area, but the Rapid Deployment Force established by President Carter last March cannot begin to deploy rapidly. It lacks...
...There would be no exemptions from the lottery except for crippling illness. Anyone drafted but considered physically unfit for combat training would be assigned to noncombat duties. Conscientious objectors would be conscripted for a form of nonmilitary service...
...Soviet navy demands three years of service; army and air force draftees spend two years in uniform. Although women are not being conscripted, an estimated 10,000 volunteers now serve in such noncombat roles as nurse and clerk. Only about 12% of Soviet males escape military service. Many of these fall below the armed forces' physical and mental standards; others are given hardship waivers to stay home and support infirm parents or wives. Some Western experts believe that it is relatively easy for university students to avoid active military service. Technically, however, every able-bodied male at a university...