| DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE STUDIES EARLY
I RELEASE OF MEN FOR READY RESERVE
I ■ ■
i Washington (AFPS)--Defense Secretary
I Charles E. Wilson has announced that
| plans are under consideration to adopt
I a provision of the 1955 Reserve Forces
i Act, which permits the separation of
| servicemen up to one-year early if they
| agree to participate in a ready reserve
| training unit under the enforceable
I provisions of the legislation. '
! The plan is now under study in the
| office of Carter L. Burgess, assistant
i defense secretary for manpower, person
I nel and reserve.
j It would affect personnel who entered
| the service before Aug. 9, 1955, the
j date the reserve act became law.
j Those who entered the service after that j
I date have an obligation to participate
| in a ready reserve training program,
j Servicemen who were drafted or joined
I the armed forces before that time have a |
I ready reserve obligation, but are not
j required to participate in training
j sessions.
j At a press conference here, Hr. Burgess
j said he thought the proposal, if adopt
! ed, would affect men who had completed
j 18 months service.
|
; This would mean that a man who was
j drafted into the service before Aug. 9,
j 1955, could reduce his active duty time
; to 18 months if he agreed to serve for
j two and one-half years in a ready re
j serve training unit. % agreeing to
j this he would be required to attend week
| ly training sessions with his unit and
j to spend 15 days yearly at a summer
I training camp,
j
| Mr. Burgess said at the conference that
I at present "the major aim is to meet
| our requirements in the read}7- reserve."
i
! Mr. Wilson said, if adopted, "something
j on the order of 100,000" servicemen
| would be eligible for the early-out
I before June 1957.
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AIR FORCE TESTS REVERSE THRUST
BRAKING SYSTEM ON JETS
|Baltimore (AFPS)—The Air Force has an
nounced an experimental unit that slows
[.down a jet aircraft with the same thrust
ithat normally pushes it forward*
| The announcement by the Air Research and
| Development Command here said the device
i diverts the hot gases blasted out of the
jet's tail pipe, and turns them forward
in the direction of the plane's flight.
In this way, the jet's own power serves
as a powerful brake.
Reversible propellers slow conventional
aircraft, allowing them to land at safe
speeds and come to a stop on short run
ways.
In many cases, jets have to use para
chutes from their tails to come to a
safe stop.
The AF said there are several advantages !
in equipping planes with the thrust-re- !
verse device.
It would enable jets to slow down while j
in flight to engage slower enemy planes, j
Jets could also make slower approaches toj
landing fields, and still come down at a j
steeper angle if equipped with the de
vice,
i Once on the ground, the thrust-reverse j
: unit could end the plane's roll quickly, j
: without reliance on friction brakes or j
: parachutes, • j
The unit was designed built by the Wrightj
Air Development Center at Wright-Patter- j
son Air Force Base, Ohio, It has been j
tested on an F-8IjF jet fighter, which is I
powered by a Curtiss-Wright J-65 turbo- j
jet engine.
The program to develop the thrust
reverse devise was directed by the ARDC ’j
early in 1953. !