Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since Selective Service first went into operation in 1940, its importunate finger has tapped many an illiterate recruit. During the first three years 240,000 such registrants were promptly waved off-more men lost to the Army than the total of battle casualties so far. Not until June 1943 did the Army take steps to teach its illiterates the three Rs. Since then approximately 90% of illiterate registrants have been salvaged for the Army, and many a reject has been reclassified. G.I. schools have become commonplace...
Startling and Invalid. Said the report acidly: the need "to recruit teen-aged schoolgirls, stenographers, clerks, beauticians, housewives and factory workers to pilot the military planes of this Government is as startling as it is invalid"; the militarization of Cochran's WASPs is not necessary or desirable; the present program should be immediately and sharply curtailed...
...probable starting infield is half veteran, half recruit, all V-12. Bob Slattery is holding down the first base position, while Bob Chapple will start at second. Jack Falsey will start at short-stop, and third base will be occupied by Bill Lutz. Of these men, Slattery and Lutz played on last year's Varsity, while Chapple and Lutz are new to the team...
...Maritime Commission, but none from WPB, WMC, or anyone else. Asked where the steel would come from, he said: "I don't think they're just going on stockpiling it." Asked about manpower, he said: "We will use existing personnel; if they leave us, we'll recruit others." Forthwith A.P. reported from Portland, Ore. that Kaiser recruiters were seeking 15,200 more workers in the Midwest, the Southwest, and even in Washington, D.C. Asked about Army & Navy permission, he said he had not consulted them-"Why should...
...Change of Subject. Subjects change, says Kahn, as soldiers progress from recruit camp to the front line, where U.S. soldiers show a cold-bloodedness which "would probably alarm their families" as it does their enemies. The rookies joke about such ancient miseries as KP, blisters, close-order drill. But humor in combat is fleeting and spontaneous, often would be meaningless any other time...