Manpower Utilization. (With Special Reference to IV-F's). Hearing ... Jan. 24, 1952 |
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administratively ARMED SERVICES athletes believe Chairman class IV-F classified registrants COMMITTEE ON ARMED Congress conscientious objector course deferred by law Director of Selective enlist examined and accepted fact getting going Government graduated happened HERSHEY hundred thousand individuals induction station commander Internal Revenue Bureau June 30 least liability liable for service look lower physical manpower pool ment mental profiles military service months National Guard national health November 30 obviously officials deferred order for induction over-all pass the test peculiar position physical and mental physically fit predental students PREPAREDNESS SUBCOMMITTEE present probably problems question ready reason record rejection rate RENFROW Reserve Selective Service Act Selective Service System selectively mobilize Senator CAIN Senator HUNT Service Act share situation someone subclass things thought total number Training and Service trying United UNITED STATES SENATE universal military training veterans
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Page 6 - The President is authorized, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to provide for the deferment from training and service under this Act in the land and naval forces of the United States of...
Page 1 - Act." (b) The Congress hereby declares that an adequate armed strength must be achieved and maintained to insure the security of this Nation. (c) The Congress further declares that in a free society the obligations and privileges of serving in the armed forces and the reserve components thereof should be shared generally, in accordance with a system of selection which is fair and just, and which is consistent with the maintenance of an effective national economy.
Page 6 - No local board, appeal board, or other agency of appeal of the Selective Service System shall be required to postpone or defer any person by reason of his activity in study, research, or medical, dental, veterinary, optometric, osteopathic, scientific, pharmaceutical, chiropractic, chiropodial, or other endeavors found to be necessary to the maintenance of the national health, safety, or interest solely on the basis of any test, examination, selection system, class standing, or any other means conducted,...
Page 6 - The Congress further declares that adequate provision for national security requires maximum effort in the fields of scientific research and development, health, and education, and the fullest possible development and utilization of the Nation's technological, scientific, and other critical manpower resources.
Page 6 - It is the sense of the Congress that the President shall provide for the annual deferment from training and service under this title of the numbers of optometry students and premedical, preosteopathic, preveterinary, preoptometry, and predental students at least equal to the numbers of male optometry, premedical, preosteopathic, preveterinary, preoptometry, and predental students at...
Page 19 - ... officials chosen by the voters of the entire State. Municipal — no, they are not. General HERSHEY. During the war it was not so, because I remember one particular city of rather large size who had a mayor who had no children and he got in. Senator HUNT. He was anxious to get in. Senator CAIN. That had nothing to do with it. I think it would have been easy to stay where that fellow was, but that is beside the point. General HERSHEY. The aliens are not particularly a great number. I think on...
Page 3 - ... had reacted in a strangely contrary manner. Instead of decreasing, it has increased to well over a million, and percentagewise, instead of decreasing it has increased by well over 1 percent. Along with this we read of instances in which professional athletes have been deferred from military service. As a case in point I quote from an article in the sports column of a local newspaper which states that "three XX college basketball players took their Army physicals yesterday and their rejection...