Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...armed forces to 2,771,121 men by next June, including 1,264,900 in the Army which had only 593,000 men when the Korean war began. Since then 130,000 reserves have been called to active duty, 100,800 men have been drafted, 50,000 National Guardsmen have been federalized, about 62,800 men have volunteered. Last week the Army issued a call for 50,000 draftees in February...
...smaller ones almost completely out of operation. In Pittsburgh and Cleveland, newspapers and department stores shut up shop, steel plants and hundreds of other industrial works closed down; in Akron, Youngstown and Morgantown, W. Va., thousands of automobiles, trucks, cabs, buses and police cars were stalled inextricably. National Guardsmen patrolled Cleveland to prevent looting and used Sherman tanks to tow stalled trucks and cars from the drifts...
Marin called out the National Guard. In scores of sharp, bloody little battles, the guardsmen hunted down the terrorists with bazookas, tanks and planes. Desperate and determined as they were, the rebels were no match for the soldiers. Hundreds of Nationalists were rounded up and imprisoned. By the end of the second day, Governor Munoz could report that Puerto Rico's worst uprising since the U.S. took over the island from Spain in 1898 seemed well under control. When police cornered diehard Nationalist Chief Pedro Albizu Campos, 59, in his San Juan headquarters, Governor Mufioz Marin ordered the besiegers...
...Under the present law they could volunteer or be drafted. But last week, adding confusion and solving nothing, President Truman raised the question again of universal training. He left out the "military," as he always does in discussing the ticklish subject. To the convention of National Guardsmen the President said: "Eight times I have asked the Congress, since I have been President, for a universal training program for the young men of the United States...
...little hope of reaching the 3,000,000 men the President had ordered the Joint Chiefs of Staff to have under arms by next June. When the Korean war began, there were 1,400,000 men & women in the armed forces. Since then, 400,000 draftees, reserves and guardsmen have been called up. But General Omar Bradley estimated that the services would fall short of the June goal by about 10%. Pentagon pessimists thought it would be twice that...