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[333] American conscription

Truman was furious, he was the president of a country, the president of the United States! No one can tease him like that.

In order to strengthen his tone, Truman kept tapping on the table with the palm of his right hand and the middle finger of his food fist bent and nervously banging on the table, and emphasized to General Bradley:

"If his request is met, it means that all offensive units of the US Army in Western Europe and the homeland will be transferred! Europe will become a state of basic vacuum, with the exception of the army defensive base garrison and a few independent regiments and combat brigades! And the continental United States will only be able to rely on 600,000 National Guards to garrison!

In case something happens to these eight army divisions...... No! I must not allow it! It's a joke!

It's not World War II, we don't have 10 million troops, and according to the limit of 2 million military personnel set by Congress after the war, minus the navy and air force, we have 800,000 troops. On this basis, add the General Army Reserve and the National Guard! We only have 1.5 million troops and thirteen main divisions!

But we still have to maintain 1,245 military bases around the world! I don't have a spare division for him! ”

General Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and chief of staff of the US Army, could not help but become worried in the face of such a realistic shortcoming, and fell into silence for a long time.

Truman was rightly worried. In recent years, the main heavy division of the US army was basically close to 30,000 people, which was roughly equivalent to the strength of a regular army of the Volunteer Army in history, that is, the strength of three infantry divisions of the Volunteer Army. This so-called main heavy division is actually a group army! Generally, it integrates all auxiliary arms such as artillery regiments, tank regiments, engineer battalions, supply battalions, air defense battalions, anti-chemical warfare battalions, helicopter companies, communication companies, reconnaissance companies, ordnance companies, medical teams, and gendarmerie units. It can be said that the establishment of this kind of fake division and real group army is huge and complex, and it is equivalent to or even surpasses that of a large corps of our army with three armies and nine divisions under its jurisdiction. For example, the 1st Marine Division, the ace division of the US military, is one of such freak divisions.

As for combat effectiveness, it is fair to say that this freak division is still above a large corps of 9 to 100,000 people in our army. At that time, the regular corps of our army could not recruit a group of aircraft for air support, battlefield blocking, and ground blockade with a single phone call, and there was no configuration of tank regiments under its jurisdiction, let alone the logistics support of Van Vliet's ammunition capacity, and the ability to continuously airlift supplies and send away the wounded after being besieged seemed to us to be a myth.

We only have warriors, the most haode fighters on Shijie, a group of fighters armed with millet plus rifles, a group of top fighters who have increased their land combat experience points to explosion in more than ten years of fighting, and a group of fighters armed to the teeth with the idea of the chairman.

According to NATO's war games, the numerical combat effectiveness estimated by integrating various factors such as weaponry, communications, tactics, logistics, and air-ground coordination, the main heavy division of the United States is at least 2.5 to 3 times that of the volunteer army with the same strength of millet plus rifles.

Even the ordinary main infantry divisions of the US army, such as the 24th Infantry Division with 11,000 men currently under the Eighth Army, or the 1st Cavalry Division with 17,000 troops, the 3rd Infantry Division with 18,000 troops, etc., generally fluctuate around 15,000 people. Assigned to other legions that are on their way to the front.

When the US army was fighting, the infantry divisions under the group army never acted alone, and always took the various artillery regiments, tank regiments, and air defense regiments under the group army...... If you don't think it's enough, bring a combat aviation brigade, an assault helicopter regiment, an anti-tank battalion, an aviation repair company, even a military band, and so on...... A large number of auxiliary formations acted together, so when the Eighth Army came to Korea, it seemed that it only brought the 24th Infantry Division, but in fact the total strength had reached more than 25,000 people, which was equivalent to a main hoplite division. The artillery regiment attached to the army brought only one this time, and there was also an artillery regiment and three anti-aircraft artillery battalions that were left in Japan and could not be taken with them for the time being.

After the war, the US army group generally adopted the establishment of two divisions, and the various auxiliary arms of the group army cooperated with the two divisions to take turns rolling attacks or alternate assaults on the left and right flanks, and the two infantry divisions could take turns to rest, but the ability of each division to attack with the cooperation of the auxiliary arms of the group army was equivalent to a main heavy division.

Truman must not allow eight of the thirteen infantry divisions of the US army to go to Korea! Without him, this is too bad.

General Omar Bradley swallowed the cup of coffee in his hand that was a little cold, and said with difficulty:

"Only twelve days! The Korean People's Army occupied Cheonan, and the situation was indeed very serious.

Cheonan is the transportation hub of South Korea, and according to reliable sources, North Korea has now deployed the 13th and 15th Infantry Divisions as reserves in an attempt to open up the Cheonan-Gunsan-Jeonju-Suncheon-Jinju-Busan line. Three other militia divisions were reinforced to the front line of Seoul for defense and logistical line support, and they had only one goal, that is, Busan! They want to completely cut off our supply lifeline between Japan and Korea!

This transportation route from Cheonan to Busan is distributed on the plains, and the cities are all plain rice fields, which are completely unsafe to defend, and the opposing infantry clusters can fight flexibly in a roundabout way, whether it is to cut off a little or encircle each one, it all depends on the number of troops invested!

Since the loss of Seoul, we have not found the kind of easy and difficult place to defend and attack that can easily cut off the north and south of Korea with just one city. The reason why the Korean states of all dynasties have set their capital in Seoul is because it can easily cut off the connection between the north and the south, and it is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

We had to come up with enough troops in the face of the North Korean heavy troop that was rushing into the southern plains, and I think what MacArthur meant was that he needed eight divisions, not eight main divisions. ”

Truman was dumbfounded.

After figuring out the gist, he rolled his eyes and said, "How many people are in the army's general reserve at present?" ”

"140,000 people, of whom 15,000 are in charge of civilian and maintenance work, and 125,000 can be added to the basic structures," General Omar Bradley said. ”

Truman knew that the so-called basic structure was those skeleton infantry regiments that were almost empty except for commanders, officers, and key non-commissioned officers, and that the sole purpose of these ghostly infantry regiments was to rapidly expand the army in wartime.

"Okay, but that's the way it can be.

General Bradley, you understand that the Selective Service has not called anyone for active duty for 18 months, and now the Ministry of Defense must begin recruitment immediately, and all young men of 18 years old must be registered as soon as possible. In addition, about 200,000 civilians were hired from society to replace the former reservists, as was the old practice of World War II. ”

Chief of General Staff Omar Bradley nodded: "After the completion of the enlistment of this batch of reserve soldiers, the future replenishment of soldiers will be in accordance with the principle of 1+1, one National Guard member and one recruit will be supplemented into the army, and the combat formation that needs front-line soldiers will be provided." ”

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When the news of the full conscription came out, the whole of America was outraged!

Wagel, a Seattle National Guard, the owner of a bakery, stood at the recruiting office and angrily confronted the Major in charge of the Selective Service, "Mr. Major! I participated in the second shijie war! Blood has been shed for this country! I've also been awarded the Silver Star! I'm a husband and father now! weishenme: I still have to fight for the young people of this country! I'm a National Guard, yes, but you know, in America, it's just an honor! If I had known that I would have to say goodbye to my family again and go to the battlefield on foreign soil, I would never have accepted this worthless honor! ”

Major John of the Selective Service Bureau was speechless when questioned, but shook his head slightly, lowered his head, and said softly in a voice that even he couldn't hear: "I hate this job......"

The same situation is playing out across the United States, with angry citizens, especially National Guard and Coast Guard veterans and their families, nearly kicking the Selective Service and City Hall thresholds to pieces.

As for the young people in the United States, none of them are interested in joining the war, being cannon fodder, and then being reprimanded and sent by the officers like dogs to learn new tricks. They come up with all sorts of ways to evade military service, such as submitting applications for college, and the Selective Service Bureau generally doesn't bother young people who have been accepted into college. There are also high-ranking people who simply find a relationship to join the National Guard, you know, from the National Guard to active duty, there is an order, unless all the people who joined before you are conscripted into the army, otherwise it will not be your turn. Later generations of George W. Bush used this method to evade military service, relying on his powerful Lao Tzu to get into the National Guard through the back door and escape the national conscription during the Vietnam War! In the United States, the children of powerful and wealthy high-ranking families basically use such and such means to easily let those 'free citizens' go to the front line as cannon fodder instead of them.

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Xiaoqiang is about to get married.

Probably due to Secretary Yang's explanation, there are obviously fewer troublesome things for Xiaoqiang in the secretariat, and the section chiefs of other departments often come to Xiaoqiang here and take many documents transferred to Xiaoqiang by other departments to deal with them on their behalf, but they only ask Xiaoqiang for instructions when they pick up the important ones.

Xiaoqiang and Meng Sisi summed it up, and Zuihou decided to invite Meng Sisiyuan's family in Puhai to come to Beidu to attend the wedding banquet.

Originally, according to Xiaoqiang's meaning, the two only needed to organize a private dinner, and this matter was just that. At that time, invite a few leaders and colleagues, call three or five friends, drink a few glasses, and enter a cave room slightly drunk, and the meaning of the wedding will arrive. For Xiaoqiang, who hates cumbersome etiquette, this is enough. As for Meng Sisi's parents, they were notified in the telegram, and they had the opportunity to go to Puhai in the future, together with her parents' relatives in the south, to have a meal together, that is.

But when he came to Meng Sisi's dormitory, Xiaoqiang realized that something was wrong.

Meng Sisi's big eyes that could almost speak blinked, her long eyelashes flickered a few times, and two lines of clear tears flowed down her long goose egg face's red puffy pink cheeks.

Xiaoqiang is stupid, where does he have the ability to deal with women crying, let alone Meng Sisi's graceful and overwhelming color. But if a woman cries, makes trouble, and hangs herself in turn, if the man is not a bastard, he will definitely not be able to delay the second or third step. Xiaoqiang is neither a turtle nor a bastard, so as soon as Meng Sisi cried, he knew that he couldn't decide on the wedding.

"Xiaoqiang, do you dislike me?"

"Don't, Sisi, don't cry, I like you to love you before it's too late, I want to respect you like a guest, grow old together for a lifetime, and then marry you, how can I despise you."

"Then why do you look down on my family?"

Xiao Qiang almost collapsed when he heard this.

He remembered the proverb of a love saint senior in college: "If a woman is unreasonable to you, then congratulations, she loves you." ”

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