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...went to work as an office boy in an insurance firm. At 19 he joined the militia reserve. At 26 he was a colonel. At 28 he went to France to fight in World War I. At 29 he was a Brigadier. Before World War II, as a businessman-reservist, he wrote a sharp series of articles attacking the Australian General Staff for not letting militia reservists have high commands. Now he has a high command on which the fate of Australia may depend...
...unusually intelligent and enterprising reservist was Major Robert Allen Griffin, who reported to Lieut. General Ben Lear two months ago for duty as public-relations officer of the Second Army. Last week he had learned that enterprise does not always pay in a peacetime army. By trying to make the Louisiana-Arkansas maneuvers seem more earnest and realistic than just a camping trip he had brought down wrath upon his head...
Having declared himself ready and willing to take active duty wherever and whenever, he was not asked to resign. (TIME erred last week in indicating that he had been retired.) Reservist Winchell was asked to continue doing the same duties as in the past. Last week he declared that he was going to spend his vacation at work for the Navy, visiting naval establishments in his district (Third Naval District...
Aboard the O-9 were Lieut. Howard J. Abbott, a line officer who had four years of submarine experience; Ensign Marks P. Wangsness, a 27-year-old reservist; and 31 crewmen, some of whom were youngsters just recruited. Seaman Charles L. Eagleton, 24, after a test dive in shallow water, had recently written his father: "Everything went wrong, but we've got it under control now." Seaman Francis Golden had told his father that the O-9 had sprung 19 leaks, that "water poured into her right away" on her first runs. Seaman Nathan Gersen had told his family...
...during the last six months increasing complaints have come from Regular officers that the seniority principle is being kicked around in most unmilitary fashion. Chief beef: in many instances a Regular finds himself outranked by a reservist who is far & away junior...