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...sweeping new National Reserve Plan which calls for a greatly strengthened reserve system. The most discussed feature of this plan is the special six-month training program...
...aspect of the plan which has chiefly drawn the charge of UMT is, of course, the provision for direct entry into the Reserve Forces with only a six-month training period. Under this plan, a militarily qualified man between the ages of 17 and 19 could, by entering a ten-year military obligation in the reserve of the Army, Marine Corps or Coast Guard, or in the Army National Guard, serve only six months of actual training. After this he would serve for nine and a half years in the Ready Reserves...
...present program would enable a high school graduate to take a six-month training period and then enter college, during which he would be required to attend something like 48 drills per year and a two week summer camp per year. On graduation from college, he would have fulfilled not only his tour of active service but also four out of his nine and a half years in the Ready Reserves...
...objection to the reserve demands on the six-month trainee will probably be much less than to the six year reserve requirements on the regular two-year inductee or enlistee. There is strong feeling that a man who serves two years of active duty, particularly in combat, should not be required to serve for six years in the Ready Reserve in which he not only must participate in training but is the first to be called back in time...
...passes, then, there will be four ways for a young man to fulfill his military obligations: 1) he may wait for induction; 2) he may enlist in one of the regular armed services for three, four or six years; 3) he may enlist in the special Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps Reserve program, or 4) he may enlist in the six-month training program