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A TASK FORCE in the Pentagon headed'by Maj. Gen. K. R. Maddux had estimated originally that the Cordiner- Plan would cost an additional S315 million in ils first yean. .Cordiner had put the first year cost in the neighborhood :of $600 million. But the Maddux-group, acting as a research stall for Cordiner, put-the net saving in the second year at 5132 million; in. the third year, 5249 million; in the fourth, 336G million. And Cordiner told the Senate Armed Sendees Committee, Aug. 21, that recent manpower cuts would have meant— undci1 the Cordiner plan—a saving of $313 million this ye at, with the annual saving running to 53.1 billion in 1962.Still, another facet of the problem is. brought out by the Army-Navy-Air Force Journal. Documenting the high rate of attritionin the services, the magazinenoted-that‘of the 1954 graduates at West Point, 10.S .percent resigned- at their first opportunity last June--Of 1953 graduates, 22.4 percent had resigned.
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Daily Review
Hayward, California, US
Wed, Nov 20, 1957
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