Regular Army and Air Force officers, who put efficiency above politics, have long hoped that some day the National Guard would be truly federalized. Last week they got a surprise.
A six-man interservice committee, under the chairmanship of the Army's Assistant Secretary Gordon Gray, recommended that the air and ground forces of the state-controlled National Guard be merged with the federally controlled Organized Reserve Corps into a single, federal reserve arm for each service. In place of the guard, each state would raise its own militia unit, as it did in wartime.
There was...
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