Show SERVICE drafting that draft which men in the 19 through 25 age group are begin ning to feel is the result of the U S armed forces drawing in their breath and preparing to expand all over the place between next fall and next sum mer the services plan on calling about 30 draft age young men every month drafting is scheduled to start about september 22 with a strength of au theorized zed by congress in the selective service bill the army has estimated that it will need between and tees to approach its authorized strength that number numbed is in addition to the or volunteers it so fervently hopes it will get in discussing plans for this second peacetime draft in U S history army secretary kenneth royall ex that the army now has men but it wont jump to the figure immediately because funds for the I 1 seal year which be gan july I 1 are not sufficient thus by july 1 1949 the size of the army will be an estimated the peacetime draft is a rela lively slow functioning process certainly it cant compare with the wartime levying of manpower peak of the induction rate during the war was reached in february 1941 1943 when men received their greetings when the army attains its full strength it will consist of 12 regular army divisions backstop ping these will be six national guard divisions together with other sup porting elements such as anti air craft artillery and service troops |