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Identifier: belltelephonemag22amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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the experience shown upontheir application blanks with relationto the Army specifications for the positions involved. It then requests theenlistment or voluntary induction ofacceptable men who prove physicallyqualified, under a procedure similarto that used for air cadets and othercandidates, for specialized training.These men become members of the 1943 Skilled Manpower for the Signal Corps 169 Enlisted Reserves and return to theirwork until called to active duty uponor shortly before activation of theirunits. Candidates for appointment ascommissioned officers must conformboth to maximum age limits set asappropriate for the grade and typeof duty expected and to minimum against the specifications establishedfor their proposed assignment, andthe level of their position in the busi-ness is compared with the grade forwhich they applying. The results oftheir physical examinations are re-viewed by the Surgeon-Generals Of-fice. All of these factors are thenconsidered by a Signal Corps Board
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Up goes a telephone line amid Tunisian ruins as a member of a Signal Battalion helps to restore communications limits defined by War Departmentpolicy for appointment from civillife, which may be relaxed only forparticular types of education and ex-perience. Their personal qualitiesand capacity for leadership are ap-praised through interviews conductedby designated Army officers. Theireducation and experience are matched of Officers, and during the past yearthe appointments which it approveshave been reviewed by a special Per-sonnel Board established for the en-tire War Department. Although it was recognized thatthe great majority of the men ac-cepted under this plan would not haveprevious military training or experi- 170 Bell Telephone Magazine SEPTEMBER ence, in the months following PearlHarbor it was often necessary to callthem to active duty directly with theirunits or to provide only short inten-sive training with similar units al-ready in advanced stages of prepara-tion. This pro

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