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Anti-administration arguments, expected today on the House floor, will assert that the bill paves the way to universal military training. Thus far, UMT has never been able to proceed past debate. Lobby groups, including the National Council Against Conscription and the Methodist Church have been waging write-in battles with the Administration for months...
Representative Carl Vinson (D-Ga.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, has predicted that the bill will be passed without any major change. Representative H. R. Gross (R-Ia.) said last week, though, that the plan "opens the door to UMT...
...defending the training program against the label of Universal Military Training, Defense Department spokesmen exposed a more dangerous flaw in the proposed system. "UMT would permit youths to discharge their military obligations quickly" declared Assistant Secretary of Defense Chester Burgess, author of the bill. "The Administration program imposes lengthy military obligations on the reserve men, just as on draftees for the regular army." By requiring nine and a half years of weekly drill and summer camps from the reservists, and six years of the same training from men who have completed two years of active duty, the Administration bill saddles...
Carter Burgess, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, said, in an interview with the CRIMSON, that the Defense Department does not consider the new plan Universal Military Training. It is distinguished from UMT, he said, by the fact that it is limited in time (it will expire in four years) and in scope...
...aspect of the plan which has chiefly drawn the charge of UMT is, of course, the provision for direct entry into the Reserve Forces with only a six-month training period. Under this plan, a militarily qualified man between the ages of 17 and 19 could, by entering a ten-year military obligation in the reserve of the Army, Marine Corps or Coast Guard, or in the Army National Guard, serve only six months of actual training. After this he would serve for nine and a half years in the Ready Reserves...