Evening star., 1950-12-28
Army Will Draft 10000 More
In March, Boosting Its T otoI Call
Since August to 100000 Men
Strength Equivalent
To d Divisions Is
Goal for July |

The Army today issued draft
call for 10000 men in March.
The call, bringing to 100000
the number which the Army has
asked Selective Service to deliver
since the start of inductions last
September, was the same as in
January and February.
A brief Defense Department
announcement stated that the
Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps
would continue to depend on
voluntary recruiting TO fill its
manpower needs in March. Only
the Army has used the draft up
to now.
Equivalent of "a Divisions.
The original quotas for January
and February were boosted on
December -. Originally the Jam
uary call had been for 10000 and
the February call for $4,000 men.
The draft calls are part of a
build-up to give the Army COM
bat strength equal to "a divisions
when it reaches it's current ex-
panSion goal next July l.
Although the division break
down by the Defense Department
lists only 18 divisions, a high
Army officer disclosed today that
the fighting force would be aug
mented by regimental combat
teams to be the equivalent of "a
full divisions. A combat team
has approximately 5000 men. A
full war-Strength division consists
of $4,000 men.
UNIT Plans Studied.
There were these other man
power developments:
l. Mrs. Anna Rosenberg, Assist
ant Defense Secretary, announced
that henceforth calls for Reserve
medical officers would take into
consideration community medical
requirements. Such policy al
ready is in effect for draft liable
physicians and dentists. Before
Reservist is called to active duty
his name will be cleared with local
Selective Service Medical Advisory
Boards.
2. Defense officials are complet-
ing plans for universal military
training legislation to be dove
tailed into the Selective Service
Act, which expires next July. The
Draft Act will require extension.
A high official said that present
thinking was that UNIT should
require full-time service of from
"a to 80 months-witb the pos
sibility of 81 months being
settled on-followed by three
years in a part-time drilling
force like the National Guard,
total of little over five years
service. He emphasized that no
final decision had been made and
that it would eventually be made
by President Truman.
The present draft law provides
that draftees who serve less than
SO months full-time, can be re-
auired to join the Guard for
three years or the inactive
Reserve for five years if he is not
near Guard or active Reserve
unit.
Four Guard Divisions Training.
At the present time there are
four National Guard divisions in
training and two more have been
called for Federal service next
month. All were below strength.
Draftees. recruits and reservists
are used to fill them out.
When the Korean war began
the Army had 10 divisions, with
none of them at full war strength
except division in Germany.
There were about three divisions
In the United States and only one,
the 82d Airborne, had anything
approaching effective strength.
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AN armored unit-will be formed
in late spring or early summer.
Currently, the Army has only one
armored division, the I'd, which
has been based at Camp Hood,
Tex.
A division is a self-contained
lighting unit, with supporting
weapons, including tanks and ar
tillery. A regimental combat team
is an infantry regiment with sup
porting units. Depending upon
its mission, it may include ele-
ments of artillery and armor in
varying proportions.