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Cadre for a unit would be given special training both in their specialties and in how to conduct training. In guard units, special emphasis was placed on having officers and technical specialists attend army schools. Mobilized reservists would join units to fill leadership vacancies and technical specialties. Untrained enlisted fillers would then arrive at the unit, be processed in, and then assigned to a position. Training would commence with basic soldier skills, followed by advanced training for each soldier in his specialty.

First, it meant that the army ordered many more guard units to active duty than could be prepared for combat and transported to Korea in time to influence the course of events during the remainder of . These units were needed instead to reconstitute the General Reserve, which had to be rebuilt in case the Soviets, as many feared, used Kim Il Sung’s reunification drive as a cover for mischief elsewhere in the world. 3 Second, tight budgets had left Eighth Army without many of the nondivisional combat and support units called for by army doctrine and which were sorely missed during the early fighting in Korea.

Military districts created administrative support teams for alerted units, but the districts lacked the manpower to provide every unit with all the support it needed. S. 49 Most state adjutants general authorized alerted units to hold three drills a week instead of the normal one. While some units hoped to use this time for extensive training, these hopes were crushed under the combined weight of administrative processing and preparing equipment for movement to the training site. As a result, most training during the alert period was on less-complex skills, such as close order drill and first aid.

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