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...force ROTC reserve commissions took on a silver lining last night when the Pentagon verified reports that all non-ROTC reserve commissions will require three years of active duty...
Denton doubted that the two-year maximum would be changed in the near future. "I've seen a paper going around the Pentagon now on ROTC commissions, and it still lists the two year requirement," he said...
Last week Williams added a shocking footnote to the case. During his investigation, one of the ORS beneficiaries defended the practice on the ground that the Army had done it too. Acting on this tip, Williams inquired around the Pentagon and found evidence of the unique bonus system. In 1947, an official directive had gone down to 5,685 civilian employees of the Army's Antilles Department, Caribbean Defense Command, authorizing them to dip into the fire-hire bonanza. Nearly 40%-2,114 employees-accepted, collected substantial leave checks, went right on working. The cost: at least...
...unprecedented crisis hit the Pentagon last week. A post belonging to one Air Force command had just moved under its own power into territory assigned to another command. What to do? The Air Force paper-pushers had nothing in their files to guide them...
...Alaskan airmen did not put up much of a fight. After a tricky deployment of Pentagon charts of organization, the ice men became naturalized employees of the Northeast Air Command (headquarters: Pepperrell Air Force Base, Newfoundland). If Fletcher's Island continues to creep far enough eastward, it will eventually enter the territory of some Soviet air command. Then the Air Force guardian of lines of demarcation will have a trickier problem...