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Show U. S. Army Enlistments at All-Time High Five months after passage of the army recruitment act, 600,017 men have enlisted to surpass the strength of any volunteer army in history Announcement of the success of the army program came even as General Eisenhower and other top war department officials called for retention of selective service as a spur to enlistments. By voluntarily joining up, they pointed out, recruits are able to select their own type of duty whereas they would be subject to army placement if drafted A breakdown of the total enlistment figures to date shows that 67.07 per cent of those enlisting served in the army during the war-14.23 war-14.23 per cent are men who had served in the regular army before the war; and 18.70 per cent are young men from civilian life, who are serving 'i the army for the first time |