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MAN? OPPORTUNITIES NOW OFFERED THE
ENLISTED MAN.
Hoadquortors Alaskan Department,Sopt. 12
Nearly a million moh hr.vo already volun
teered for peacetime s or vice in the Anfiy
during the current recruiting campaign,and
it is oxpoctod that the now pay scalo will
further stimulate voluntary enlistments.
This Army recruiting program has now bo
con c of unusual public interost booauso of
the current "draft holiday" which has boon
called by the War Department,
As a careor the Army offers a completed
courso of progross extending swiftly
through the life of the individual con
corned, or a goodly portion of it. This
statement is amplified when ono stops to
consider that few people, oithor in the
last century or the present one, have been
in a position to retire for the rest of
their lives, and have a regular monthly
income of $107,25 after having spont
twenty years of their livos nt one'job. Or,
having reached the age of 50 years, and '
aftGr having worked for 30 yf thoso yoars,
find'they can live the balance of their
day3,'and havo an income of $185.63 per
month, which is the retirement benefit for
first or mastor sergeants who round out
thirty years of sorvice.
In addition to theso factors, contributivo
to a life in'latter years of security and
ease of mind, 'the rotired soldior will
have had the ususual opportunity of having
traveled all over the world, having had
tho best of medical attention, having seen
Cont. on page 13.
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