Word: reenlistment
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...Army, authorized to add 133,000 men and build to a new strength of 1,000,000 will take the bulk of the draftees. Specialists now on active duty will also be persuaded to reenlist. And for the balance, a predicted 40,000 will be drawn from the Ready Reserve. The Air Force has been authorized an additional 63,000 men, will take most from the Ready Reserve. The Navy, increasing its strength by 29,000, will also draw from reserves and held-over specialists, will accept enlistments but no draftees at present. The Marines, with 15,000 more combat...
Rights & Incentives. Dick Carmichael and colleagues went to work. President Eisenhower was consulted, and under his sponsorship the 1955 military pay raise bill, with its built-in incentives to reenlist, was passed by Congress. So were measures giving servicemen an extra month's rental allowance for each permanent change of station and offering to men still in the services the home-mortgage rights now enjoyed by veterans...
...comic book showing Sad Sack up against the pitfalls and pratfalls of civilian life. When he draws his first paycheck, he finds that after all the taxes and deductions, he has only a nickel left. Even that turns out to be counterfeit, and Sad Sack is glad to reenlist...
Mantrap. In Honolulu, Pfc. J. B. Cumbie, trying to reenlist, was rejected for ear trouble, asked for a discharge, learned that he lacked the necessary points...
Army takes men from 18 to 36, accepts older men if they have served before. Married men must have affidavits showing that their dependents will be cared for. To reenlist, they must have their wives' consent...