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...sending of U.S. military advisers to El Salvador. Six Navy training and maintenance advisers have already been ordered there. In an obvious attempt to test public opinion, Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker remarked after a meeting with Reagan: "It is entirely appropriate for this country to dispatch noncombat advisers in small numbers-50, 100, 150-to tell these people how to defend themselves...
...short 1,650 pilots (the retention rate for Navy pilots has dropped from 62% in 1977 to 31% in 1979). The Army still has its 16 authorized divisions, but the ten based in the continental U.S. are understrength, and a confidential Army report rated six of them as "noncombat ready." Overall, the Navy is short 20,000 petty officers, the Army 7,000 NCOS. One of the most important military requirements is the capacity to airlift combat troops to a crisis area, but the Rapid Deployment Force established by President Carter last March cannot begin to deploy rapidly. It lacks...
...There would be no exemptions from the lottery except for crippling illness. Anyone drafted but considered physically unfit for combat training would be assigned to noncombat duties. Conscientious objectors would be conscripted for a form of nonmilitary service...
...Soviet navy demands three years of service; army and air force draftees spend two years in uniform. Although women are not being conscripted, an estimated 10,000 volunteers now serve in such noncombat roles as nurse and clerk. Only about 12% of Soviet males escape military service. Many of these fall below the armed forces' physical and mental standards; others are given hardship waivers to stay home and support infirm parents or wives. Some Western experts believe that it is relatively easy for university students to avoid active military service. Technically, however, every able-bodied male at a university...
...annual military aid and an additional $300 million in economic assistance. Western intelligence agencies discount rumors that East German soldiers and pilots have periodically fought alongside southern African rebels or with the troops of Marxist states like Angola. But no one disputes the fact that East Germany's noncombat military role-as a provider of materiel and advisers-by now equals that of Cuba, and that its political role is even more active than Havana...