| Show Based U.S.-Based Troops Called To 70 Bolster Korean Lines WASHINGTON July 10 UP UP- UP The army almy has started dipping into the small five division mobile force stationed in the United States to hasten help for American Ameri Amen can forces rocked by an onrushing North Korean army The decision to order the Second infantry division and an unspecified unspecified fied number of smaller units from other organizations to the far cast east came less than two weeks after the United States had stepped into the Korean conflict to assist South Korea in repelling the invaders from the north It was indicative of how the timetable has quickened as unhappy unhappy unhappy un un- un- un happy reports came into the Pentagon Pentagon Pen Pen- tagon from the front And it intensified Monday the theman theman theman man power problems confronting the military sharpening quest questions ons about the current volunteer effort whether the draft would have to tobe tobe tobe be used whether the national guard eventually would be moved into the picture The Thc so-called so mob mobile le striking force was created for the purpose to which the Second division and the thc other units arc now being applied applied applied ap ap- ap- ap plied deployment to any area arca where an emergency occurs Pared down from original plans it consist consists con con- of the five divisions plus the theun un units 13 needed to enable the combat divisions to fight The Thc divisions arc these The rho Second infantry based at Ft Lewis Wash Vash the airborne airborne airborne air air- borne based at Ft Bragg N N. N C. C the airborne at Ft Campbell Ky the Second armored at Ft Hood Tex the Third infantry at Ft Benning Ga I 1 I An announcement issued simultaneously simultaneously simul simul- I Sunday at Washington I I and San Francisco said that the I 1 Second infantry division and two units of antiaircraft artillery have I been alerted for movement in the near future to the thc far east comIt com com- mand It said that several supporting units from the Sixth army area I with headquarters at San Francisco Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco and under which the Second I division also comes also had been I put on notice And it added that i similar alerts had been issued to See Page 2 Column 5 Army Calls Home T Troops oops I To Bolster Boaster Korea lines Continued from Pa Page Pace c One I several combat units in the Second Second Sec Sec- sec sec-I ond army nimy Baltimore Third Atlanta Atlanta Atlanta At At- At- At lanta and Fourth San Antonio Tex Marines Waiting A marine division dl has been waiting waiting waiting wait wait- ing for several days dava for ships to tobe tobe tobe be assembled to take the division and its marine air unit to the far cast Military chiefs had nothing to I say about how much help Gen MacArthur may have requested or how much the strategy-making strategy joint chiefs of staff here believed he should get MacArthur started out the Korean campaign with elements clements of one division That and acid whatever he has committed to battle since is drawn from the four divisions of his far cast com com- mand The defense force of Japan must be kept up it i is Ia pointed out at atthe atthe atthe the Pentagon because the danger of attack on that country continues continues continues con con- to exist On top of this situation there is 13 the continuing possibility of a as s sudden u 11 d d e c n Communist move in Europe There the U United States has only a sin single le division di plus a substantial-sized substantial constabulary force Corce trained for combat A sudden sudden sud sud- den crisis there would mean that the mobile force might have to send aid to Europe as well as the far cast Reluctant to Can Call Guard There was as speculation that the federal government would be re re- I a least at the outset out to call in only certain national guard g j I divisions di to r replace e c p I 1 a ace c e divisions I drawn from the mobile force In i isome some quarters there gg was belief belie that the government should the time come would federalize the whole national guard instead of oC risking arguments over discrimination discrimination discrimination nation by calling in some divisions while others remained under state con control This was the method used just before World War Var II H. A Joint resolution of congress approved Aug 27 1940 1910 ordered the national guard into active federal military service for 12 months Tins This was extended as the danger of war grew CT closer Rn and the guard re remained remained re- re re-I re federalized until after the conflict had ended Today there are arc 27 national I 90 of them guard d divisions over at organized strength This Thu means I that each division has the required I numb number ee of uni units sUch r I medical units units but but c t tho the dot divisions are strength They i like c at l. l o arm army would woul ha e to v blU the t t power if called in into to aCUte tr t I |
