ARMY & NAVY: Hasty Amends

The U.S. Navy is heading for a postwar manpower problem of unprecedented magnitude. To man the postwar fleet, it will need a force estimated by hopeful Navymen at some five times its greatest previous peacetime complement. The logical place to get the force is from the fleets' 2,862,971 war-trained Reserves, officers and men, who now comprise 84.5% of the entire Navy.

Yet partially because they are tired of war but also because almost nothing has been done to show them the advantages of becoming professionals, most Reservists are fed up, want only one...

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