Reserve Components: Hearings ... Eighty-second Congress, First Session, Pursuant to H.R. 4860, a Bill Relating to the Reserve Compenents of the Armed Forces. January 8, 9, 11, 12, 15; April 18, 23, 24, 27, 30; July 31; August 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, and 22, 1951

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1951 - United States - 1160 pages
Reviews Armed Forces reserves organization and readiness.
 

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Page 302 - Code, section 262, defines the purpose of the Reserve components of the US Armed Forces as follows: The purpose of the Reserve components is to provide trained units and qualified persons available for active duty in the Armed Forces, in time of war or national emergency...
Page 309 - Defense, the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Secretary of the Air Force...
Page 337 - The CHAIRMAN. Are there any further questions? If not, we thank you very much, Mr.
Page 593 - Director) with respect to the armed services or any component thereof, the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, or the Department of the Air Force...
Page 474 - Guard units, and organizations, and of the officers, warrant officers, and enlisted members of the National Guard of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, who shall have been appointed, enlisted and appointed, or enlisted, as the case may be, in the National Guard of the United States...
Page 572 - Secretary of the Treasury for the Coast Guard when the Coast Guard is operating as a service in the Treasury Department, the Secretary of Commerce for the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and the Secretary of Health.
Page 876 - President may at any time drop from the rolls of any armed force any officer who has been absent without authority from his place of duty for a period of three months or more, or who, having been found guilty by the civil authorities of any offense, is finally sentenced to confinement in a Federal or State penitentiary or .correctional Institution.
Page 75 - Guard, as an integral part of the first-line defenses of this Nation, be at all times maintained and assured. To this end, it is the intent of the Congress that whenever...
Page 75 - The Congress further declares, in accordance with our traditional military policy as expressed in the National Defense Act of 1916, as amended, that it is essential that the strength and organization of the National Guard, as an integral part of the first-line defenses of this Nation, be at all times maintained and assured.
Page 143 - When Congress shall have authorized the use of the armed land forces of the United States for any purpose requiring the use of troops in excess of those of the Regular Army, the President may, under such regulations, including such physical examination, as he may prescribe, draft into the military service of the United States, to serve therein for the period of the war or emergency, unless sooner discharged, any or all members of the National Guard and of the National Guard Reserve.

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