Army & Navy - The Army's Case

Last week Army men marshaled many an argument to show that there was very bad medicine in the Senate amendment to the 18-19-year-old draft which would require a year's training in the U.S. for youngsters before sending them overseas. Chief points:

> Training times for an individual, a small technical unit or a division are not necessarily the same. And large numbers of green soldiers can be assimilated by trained units without impairing efficiency. There is no reason to hold up a whole division of seasoned troops just because it has a...

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