Physical standards. Held at the university of kansas. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. We will begin or second session on the problem of morale and in order to mix up the format a little bit, we are having this time a series of short presentations, short talks by three participants. And then they will pullover chairs and sit in front to ask them questions. Our third participant jacquelyn rip who is an associate professor tried to leave from harrisburg yesterday morning on a 7 00 a. M. Flight and it turned out the earliest she would be able to come in because of a problem with the plane was 2 00 a. M. Yesterday. Shes not here with us. We have instead margory who is a graduate student and is going to read jackies paper. The questions will only be two the other two participants. Marjory is not going to try to answer questions for jackie. The speaker today, we begin with William Donnelly who is a senior historian. To be followed by eric flint who is the director of the u. S. Army muse
Test. Test. Now, the next slide, a little complicated but its priority one assignments, percentage of the total of College Graduates brought into the army. These are both draftees and enlisted. Priority one was the category the army called wanted to be filled with a College Graduate. So some of the an acronyms on the bottom, men who volunteered for officer candidate school or enlisted for it. C. A. S. Stands for civilian acquired skills. Those are men who came in with skills that immediately translated to an mos, so they were awarded that mos based on their skills, such as delta clerks. A lot of lawyers got drafted and wound up as legal clerks. 91 seiierra, preventive medicin. Department of the army preferred mos utilization, these were moss requiring a high score in the Armed Forces Qualification test, such as 96 bravo intelligence analysts. Men could be assigned that, or they could actually enlist for it as well. Now, enlisted for an mos is men who went down to see their recruiting s
Mobilization, military health affairs, for structure, equal opportunity and marketing among others, which is more striking hes found time in his schedule to come here and talk to us today and were very grateful for that. A 1980 graduate, policy john f. Kept from Harvard University and phd from policy from rand graduate school. During his 30 year army career he served as a special weapons officer in germany within the United States and korea and he spent ten years as an associate professor of economics at west point where he also was the director of the u. S. Armys office of manpower and analysis advising Senior Army Leaders on Office Retention and marketing. My favorite piece of this introduction is that he created the Award Winning stateoftheart Americas Army game which served as a Key Recruiting tool for the service as well as the virtual army experience. Im expecting that you should all ask him questions about that aft after. Excuse me. Among his military awards and decorations, ser
Morning and on a 7 am flight. It turned out that the earliest she would be able to get in because of a problem with planes was 2 am yesterday. She is not here with us and we have instead a graduate student here at ku on military history to read her paper. The questions will only be to the other adjustments. Marjorie will not answer questions. Although im sure she would do a lovely job. So the speakers today on our second session, we began with William Donnelly Senior Historian at the u. S. Army center of military history. And followed by eric flynn the director of the lewis army museum. And finally, the paper read by marjorie. First as a set federal Civil Servant i give the usual disclaimer that the opinions expressed here are not necessarily those of the secretary of the army of the chief of staff or anyone else in the department of the army. Now president johnson and congress in june 1967 decided to and almost all graduate school draft deferment. Johnson deferred this decision in exe