Activation of new aaa units - Air Defense Artillery

1948 NEWS AND COMMENT 53
:l\lvreason for discontinuing my subscription after having
been' a subscriber for practically all my service was not because
of any dissatisfaction with the JOURNALitself but
rather a doubt on my part that a Coast Artilleryman at the
end of the trail could find in it much that would be of
professional benefit in the type of duty to which the older
officersare being assigned.
It is heartening that antiaircraft is to have a part in the
rearmament program and that you have in mind making the
JOURNALthe instrument by means of which the older officers
can be kept abreast of developments and application
of the new weapons which the Coast Artillery will man.
;\lav the more technical phases be left to technical manuals
and the JOURNALcarry articles on the future role of the
Coast Artillery that are both informative and non-technically
instructive. All good wishes to you in your efforts.
, Sincerely,
/s/ COLONEL,C.A.c.
of of of
Army Offers Enlistment Inducements for Antiaircraft
Artillery Veterans
A special opportunity for World War II veterans with
Antiaircraft Artillery training to enlist in the Army in advanced
grades ranging up to technical sergeant has been announced
by Lieutenant General Willard S. Paul, Director
of Personnel and Administration, Department of the Army
General Staff.
Open to Navy, Marine and Coast Guard veterans as well
as to former Army and Air Force men, this special inducement
has been provided to attract qualified personnel for
new antiaircraft units organized under the recently authorized
expansion of the Army, General Paul explain.
"len trained in one or more of 21 different Antiaircraft
Artillery technical specialties may qualify for this opportunitv
if thev have been honorably discharged from one of
the Armed Forces since May 12, 1945, General Paul said.
Thev mav enlist for three, four, five or six years with assura~ce
~f being assigned to the Antiaircraft Artillery
duties.
Of the 21 job specialties covered in this announcement,
nine have openings available in the second enlisted pay
grade, 'which embraces technical sergeants; five have openingsin
the third pay grade (staff sergeants and technicians,
3rdgrade); two ha\'e openings in the fourth pay grade (sergeantsand
technicians, 4th grade); and five have openings
in the fifty pay grade (corporals and technicians, 5th grade).
No man \vill be accepted in a grade higher than he held at
the time of his discharge, however.
~lanv of the noncommissioned officers and technicians
who take advantage of this enlistment opportunity will be
sent to the Antiaircraft Artillery and Guided Mi