European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 2, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Yank the army weekly 1945 compulsory military training dear yank Why do we need a postwar draft to police Germany and Japan the poles and Many others will be glad to take that Job off our hands and can do a much better Job than to maintain a Large standing army for our defense against whom will we have to defend ourselves once we lick the Axis Britain and Russia will be the Only countries which can possibly threaten our and neither of them shows the slightest intention of wanting to do other than remain friends with to educate our youth Why not Send our Young men to a College or vocational school for a year at the governments expense instead it would be much cheaper and they would get More out of a course in English literature or diesel engines than from study ing the tactics and technique of policing the for the health of our youth swimming pools and free medical services would go a lot farther in that direction than sleeping in Pup tents and hiking 30 Miles with a full Field personally i have yet to hear a reason Good enough for me to want my son to go through the same Chicken in France Simon Schatz dear yank everyone seems to forget the fact that disarmament after world War i did not prevent world War armament and a Strong army and Navy will pre vent a year spent in the armed services will further the education of the coming Young travel and meeting people alone is an it will improve the minds of Young give them a better under standing of the great country in which they therefore making them better citizens in later with peace in Many Are overlooking the Assur Ance of future a years compulsory military training in either the army or Navy will go far in assuring that future Panama Powell arm3c dear yank a youth training program at this time is a Stab in the Back to the efforts made for permanent peace at the Dumbarton Oaks How can one plan for peace at the same time when planning for War the Only time such a plan should be considered is when All efforts for permanent peace and disarmament by All nations have if we do have to acknowledge the fact that War is one year of service is certainly not future if will be scientific wars and will Call for trained the foot Soldier has been half As important in this War As in the last War the future will find him further lessened in for the next War will be fought with larger planes and India sol Bender dear yank As a Champion fighter must be Ever ready to de fend his so must we be prepared to defend our hard won peace every one of us was ready to give his All for the country when we Learned about Pearl but for quite a time our All was pitifully because we had allowed ourselves to be lulled into a state of false Many Ameri cans lost their lives because we Felt because we were they  do that to needless to they i cannot believe that a proper peace can be maintained without something to Back it a Strong military Force of trained men and Superior Materiel As an ominous warning to any and All who dare to threaten our As Keith Frame dear yank whatever group you belong please wait until the War is Over before you Settle this please wait we soldiers get Back to civilian please let us have a Little say about this question of compulsory military training for our when we get we will be Able to give you the straight dope about the dont think you have our True opinions while we Are subject to military please wait until we Are civilians again and we will be Able to Settle this prob Lem with the help of our you pulled the volstead act during the last War dont make another similar Blunder during this please dont pull this  stuff on Iran withheld troop sleepers dear yank the War department should award the designer of the troop Sleeper some kind of a for in stance the distinguished service Cross with at least three Oak Leaf after spending four Days and three we still have a Day and night to and we Are All on the verge of physical due to being tossed from one end of the car to the our hearing has Long since been destroyed by the thunderous noise created As we Are dragged along All wheels Are Flat at speeds up to 75 the first night the rain came into the doors so freely that several of us awakened completely fortunately no one contracted anything worse than a head old time railroaders claim a Flat wheeled Boxcar rides much easier than one of these troop having made a couple of trips via the in inclined to t we do appreciate the was generosity in paying our expenses to and from the but we feel that Uncle Sam has been swindled again when some expert designed this Hawaii it Ligand by four can openers dear yank in answer to Gido Demarcos problem about not having can we have found Here in India that the Best thing to use is the Cooks fighting Wear a meat if Demarco and his mess personnel would of been properly trained before they left the states for they would of never asked such a India Harvey Boyd Oil and Rice Fields dear yank there has been some talk of starving the japanese Home islands into submission through naval and air i have an idea to offer which i have never heard i have often noticed How a Small Quantity of Gaso kerosene or used motor Oil will spread Over a Large body of now one of the main foods of Japan is which is raised in Fields that Are Stag Nant pools of while i was Home in on furlough i saw air planes dusting Fields with Poison to kill Why cant our air planes Spray the Fields of Japan in a like using something like Gaso line that will wipe out their Rice Fields foodstuff is certainly to be classed As a military i would like to hear some reason Why the spraying of waste used motor Oil or other similar agent to destroy agriculture and the forests of Japan would not be at the present time it of be but after we have obtained bases close to Japan it seems to me it is Well Worth fort Elson Bruce Forward pass dear yank in a recent football quiz you asked who threw the longest completed pass in the history of football in answer you stated Brick Mueller of who threw a 70yard pass against Ohio that is not the longest pass in football according to a Story in the november Issue of the longest completed pass was 87 thrown by Robinson and completed by Schneider of Louis in their game against Kansas in Guinea Fred Shotzman the longest Forward pass thrown in that Kan Louis game was 48 according to the 1907 Spalding which contains a full account of the most football historians Trace the legend of Robinsons 87yard pass to a practice game in 1906 in which he threw a pass of 67 not 87 infantry goal dear yank being in an infantry combat wed like to know this when will we have an objective to meet like the air corps in other How Many Days of com Bat time do we need to get reclassified talking to different infantry we seem to All agree that a goal should be Italy s William signed by nine civil service dear yank Federal Laws offer the returning servicemen Many opportunities in the civil service although these benefits Are of immense Aid in the postwar they Overlook one important As any government worker can the interval Between taking of exam and appointment to duty is usually of quite a Why not allow our men to take civil service exams while overseas the armed forces Institute and com Pany commander Are competent to handle the exam ining and proctoring applications for the exams could be made direct by the individual to the civil service the special services division has the facilities for publicizing any forthcoming the knowledge that each Day longer you Are in uniform is actually pushing you that much Forward on the appointment list will be a morale Booster that will outdo tons of pamphlets and volumes of Solomon Seymour Gelber coloured shells dear yank May i offer a suggestion we Are shooting a lot of 105 ammo and Are having a lot of trouble telling what kind of Shell is in a Case after we take the tape off Why Doest ordnance paint the end of the fiber Case the round is packed in with the color of the round then when it has to be repacked or counted in the ammo it could be done with Germany German Jet Plant Jet propelled planes dear it is not your Public levers Over on let prop Witt the Job Over not pie take for Jet and n can find a mistake in in one sgt Georg referring to his article ppe a German plane we this nazi Jet air plane in question is Ine but is a True Messerschmidt in the two Power sometime mis Ernest Well the picture rocket propelled photos of nazi the War goes on dear yank we dont mind getting gigged for dirty but in an in we get nailed for Hoar Frost on the that going too it is said that Salt will remove but there int enough Salt even to season the so if you know of any defrosting device suitable for a Battery Well Chip in for Camp Robert signed by five dear yank a couple of Days ago i was told to Cut some there is nothing unusual about such a but when i found that i didst have any tools to work with i told the Man in he the old Man wants this Small Patch i cant get any tools so you will have to get a knife or something i told him i Haven a go into the Barracks and get a razor Blade this being an i did it a few moments later i found myself Cut Ting grass with a double Edge razor what i want to know is Why does the army have to give such silly orders i wonder if in eligible for a Section or should we All get it for doing such a silly thing if you publish this please keep my name out of it or else there will be murder around Here and ill be the withheld dear yank we had been receiving quite a few air raids and seme of them had been carried out by the japs in such a Way that we didst know they were Here until shooting of our a guns had or after they dropped their eggs or started Many of the men began to sleep fully minus to be somewhat one night when the raid signal one who was sleeping with his clothes ran out of the tent and didst realize his shirt Tail was his Only thought was to reach a the next Day we found out that our commanding officer had caught him with his shirt Tail out and busted him from Corporal to we would like to know if our co has the authority to bust a Man for being out of uniform at a time such As this As far As we Are concerned a Man thinks More of life than he does of his shirt Lloyd Marianas islands withheld Page 14