Word: recruiting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department had encouraged the youthful pretender to the Austrian throne to recruit such an Army unit. Last week, tacitly admitting its mistake, the Army quietly announced the disbanding of the battalion...
Until recently an average bright Army recruit could reasonably tell himself that he had a pretty good chance of being commissioned an officer. But times have changed. Throughout the country's training camps last week many an aspiring soldier was learning that the process is no longer easy. Men now facing the draft are likely to learn that the chances of a commission are even slimmer...
...Joint Army, Navy, Marine, Coast Guard. Air Forces Recruiting Board will make its first public appearance here in Emerson D today at 2:30 o'clock, Eliot Perkins '23, director of the War Service Information Bureau announced. Under the Joint Services Agreement no single service may recruit at any college until the Joint Board has made a public appearance...
...Although State quotas of doctors needed for war were set on a flat population ratio so as to leave one physician for every 1,500 civilians, it has been easier to recruit doctors in the low-income areas than in the States where a captaincy is a painful financial comedown for a successful medico...
Last week the War Department dissolved the Army Specialist Corps, commanded by Dwight F. ("Davis Cup") Davis, 63, Secretary of War in the middle '20s. A civilian appendage which was supposed to recruit business executives, technicians, etc., the Corps never worked out practically. Reasons: 1) the Army found the specialists' civilian status a nuisance; 2) the Corps could not hold a man against the draft; 3) the Army was leary of men whose health disqualified them for normal service, for fear they would eventually be a load on the Treasury; 4) the Army, especially the Services of Supply...