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Much of Seoul's recovery is due to the tireless labors of U.S. Colonel Charles R. Munske, 54, a bluff, benevolent reservist from Brooklyn. As chief of the U.N. Civil Assistance Command for Seoul and the province of Kyonggi, Colonel Munske is nominally only an adviser to Seoul's U.S.-educated Mayor Kim Tai Sun. Actually, he works a minimum of twelve hours a day, seven days a week, coping with the city's problems. Seoul's rebuilding came to a dead stop recently when contractors ran out of nails. Munske begged and borrowed some wire...
Richard P. Russel (D-Ga.), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said that failure of the present Congress to adopt a UMT program would be almost a "national tragedy." Russel pointed out that a Reservist can be kept on ready status, including two weeks training, for less than $450 annually, while a regular costs...
Last summer, a 52-year-old Navy captain decided, after 20 years of service, to go back to civilian life. He asked to be retired. The Navy approved, then yanked a 58-year-old reserve commander out of civilian life to fill his job. Boiling mad, the reservist went to see his Congressman, Pennsylvania's James E. Van Zandt, a naval reserve captain himself. He found a ready audience. Van Zandt and many other Congressmen had decided that too many able, relatively young officers were retiring...
Historian Samuel Eliot Morison, 64, who left Harvard to enter the war as a reservist lieutenant commander, was placed on the retired list as a rear admiral. Morison's plans: to keep right on writing his comprehensive History of United States Naval Operations in World...
Unfair as it was, there was little or nothing to be done about the situation. An unemployed New Mexico reservist summed it up bitterly: "They tell us to be patriotic and join the reserves, so in gratitude, they make us starve...