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Show Married Officers Wanted With to- fast growth of the I Army comes the increasing de-i mani.il if or more officers. The' '.ttmy needs 75,000 additional officers this year. ' I Army leaders are meeting this dorr.Und i.-j a very practical way. Theiy are attempting to persuade ryoung married men to enter tlhe Ar.my as privates -with the assurance as-surance tihat iliheiy may stand the 'examination for admittanoe into in-to Officers Training School. Most m-ajiritd men would hesitate hes-itate to -e'nLdst because a private's par check is not large enough to support a .wife, and there 'would to-e -the ahaince that 'they wauM not be selected- as an officer. of-ficer. However, John J. McCoy, Assistant As-sistant Secretary oi. War, in a recent speech, pointed -out -that the Army will 'now accept the enlistmlent of men with dependents depen-dents for the sole purpose of getting ' a ooimmissaon. If the enlistee' is not accepted as an officer by the Anmiy, Ihe may ir&tunn. to civil life and mot be subject to military' call until persons in ih.is classification are subject to call by local drcitft boards. Now, young married men in Sanpete County I who iwtish to serve the counitny, -but at the same time Ihave the respo'nsi-'bility respo'nsi-'bility oi" supporting someone, im'ay join the Army with the lassiurance that .if they ame -not selected as oflficens they ,may return to civil life. |
