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ofr-too)willtomnines Is ir.ls. cott, Scx-the n.m. h a 'ion fclen bird iulc. iple, 16.95 was *irityDc-aterArmy Official Speaks Here ,Well-Trained Reserve ForcePrevents War, Orth StatesB JOnpf DOUGLAS Staff Writer'The Army's future active and reserve forces will be molded along the line that the well-trained, smart, aggressive soldier.is ihe ultimate weapon. Franklin L. Orth, deputy assistant Secretary of live Army, said here Friday night.The high-ranking official, speaking before a Reserve Officers Association membership kickoff banquet at Fort Sill, said lie believes the nation's leaders have rejected the massive retaliation theory as the sole deterrent'to war and have turned to compact, highly-trained active and ready reserve Icrces lor additional safeguards.Army Best Defci»*eHowever, Orth said since, the army will be forced to operate on an extremely austere basis throughout the fiscal, year and since Russia has ventured - into the cosmic with -Sputnik Two we cannot afford to reduce our posture ol defense.A strong pentomic Army is the hest insurance in the world against another tragic war, he said. No one could object .to paying the cost of adequate premiums for such war insurance.‘ Such preventive cost is a small price ol pay for our freedom and our liberty and the . failure by America is to pay such costs' in full is tantamount to complete disaster.Orth also stressed that maintaining a strong delensc has produced benefits to society io economic growth and technological ad-, vances.Face Real TaskOrth said down through history development of new weapons— bows and arrows, gun powder, gas and the ntom bomb—has caused men to think the battlefield was no .onger tenable to the ordinary soldier.Nothing could be further from the truth, he said.Orth, himself a veteran ol World War Jr. said it is n result o( this philosophy that is causing the Army to face an ever-expanding task with daily shrinking resources o! men, money and material.He said the Army Intends to reduce its active military strength to 900.000 by the end of the fiscal year, as it has been directed, by releasing 61,COO ol the lowest mental category enlisted personnel.Also, he said, enlistment and selective service requirements have been raised to slow down procurement of new men.Closest AttentionOrth said officer and warrant officer strength will have to be reduced by several thousand, and these will be removed, whether active or reserve, from Ihose whose past service places them at the lower end of the efficiency spectrum. ”I have given this program my closest attention and can assure you of its equity and fairness to all. lie said, Any organization which takes a lOO.CflC-man cut is bound to lose the services of hundreds of employes It would Hke t» retain.” ' ”But while the Army cuts back ils manpower, it will call for a stronger, better-traioed ready reserve, he indicated. _Orth- said in previous ware the Army operated training centers and maneuver areas until reservists had enough training to take over.Now it Vs anticipated that reserve components units will play an extensive role in the operation of these training centers' immediately upon mobilization, he explained.Orth said the new reserve philosophy is summed up in a statement by the Army affairs committee of the ROA.ccJnlcounCourt NotesSlfHlni Coart 1llill PiarrrZlauItnmo Finanro Corp. v*. 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Callaway, tor Callaway’* Grocery, Medicine Park.The reserves, to be effective, must be thoroughly trained, fully equipped, and. ready for immediate action virtually in the same degree as the regular force it would be better to have, a few battalions in the reserve, ready to go intq.acnon, than, many more larger hniis which represent largely 'paper strength.’''Orth said the ready reserve can now count on about .430,030 men from the Army rational guard and 3(0,000-Irom -the reserve, but said it is inadequate to man the 12,000 companv.size units contained in the 1054 troop basis.So a revision of the Army's reserve fortes troop structure, is now being made, with the plan to convert reserve forces to the pentom-ic concept playing a significant part, he saidChange* Will Be'MetAs new concepts of tactics and strategy, or as new .weapons or communications system's dictate changes in ihe structure and organ-fcaUon of the active Army, so will these developments be . followed with corresponding changes In the Army national guard and the reserve, he said. .. 'He said Ihe pentomic concept will introduce into the reserve a whole' new ; arsenal of weapons, such as the Honest- John and Corporal. and that reserve and national guard units will receive them as quickly as thcy'can be put out However, he warned this could not be cone overnight.The ultimate weapon concept as a military policy of the United Slates has, I think, been rejected by our national leaders,’' Orth save. “The struggle for supremacy between our way. of .-life and that of communism might be lest II we were to continue to build nur srra-ligy solely upon the thesis of massive retaliation.We must ijever forget that the ell-trained. smari, - agressivesoldier is the ultimate weapon— and thHt men, not machines, will wir. the wars of tomorrow as they have in'the past.noun train fare day Th a F( tick civil terer lendfen.*aeryawaitrairplosl Th 1st I Dot Ci coiv. and othy Best Cur) HAT ine Gi feers wen Rob Ven C8'.and.MeFLAYAWAY FOR CHRISTMASGAMES BOOKSFountain-Horne HardwareSherldaa Road at Gore EL 5-5*35SERVING YOUR ^YOUR CONFIDENCEPrescription1 IS ONE OF OUR HOST
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Lawton Constitution and Morning Press
Lawton, Oklahoma, US
Sun, Nov 17, 1957
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