| Show WHAT OUR DEFENDERS COST COT At Home It Is I. and Overseas a Year for Each Man in the Service Statistics have haY been collected by tha clothing and equipage subsistence conservation reclamation and hardware hard hard- ware ant and I metals division of ot the quartermasters claar- claar quartermasters quartermasters' corps United States army to Indicate Ju Just t what It costs a It year to maintain n soldier over overseas i IlS and 1 in the theU U United States These according to the Army and Navy Ninno Journal show that the cost Is a it year ear to equip and maintain a soldier overseas Y Isens and to equip and maintain one In the United States State Subsistence e. e figured at nt 09 9 cents a day amounts to yearly for tor each null man overseas oversea figured at 51 cents a n aday aday day in the United States it amounts to The cost of ot the Initial equipment for tor the soldier the first year In the United States Is 1130 while the cost of his additional equipment for tor the first year em o overseas Is Thus It appears that If It the soldier going overseas SeaS did not take with him hima himo a o great gnat deal of his equipment already ady s supplied if In the United States the contrast con between the cost of equipping and maintaining a soldier In this country country country coun coun- try and abroad would be much more marked Not only Is s the amount o of 01 equipment needed abroad greater reater titan than that needed In this country countr but the st statistics of the conser conservation nUon and reclamation re reo division show that equipment equipment equip equip- m ment nt nm and clothing overseas subject t tp to much i harder use wear Wem out more e quickly rand are Ire less effectively cly reclaimed re reo claimed than similar material clothing clothIng clothing cloth cloth- ing and equipment used In the the- United States The he amount of ot reclamation of ot each euch Individual soldiers soldier's equipment In III Inthis inthis this Is i 80 a year ear while the amount of ot reclamation of similar material ma inn- abroad Is but |
