The Nation - News from April 12, 1985
The U.S. Army will soon have, for the first time, more people in its reserve units than on active duty, Pentagon manpower chief Lawrence J. Korb reported. The change, scheduled to take place in fiscal 1988, stems in large part from the Army’s decision to freeze its active-duty strength at 781,000 for the rest of this decade to concentrate its resources on the weapons ordered under President Reagan’s rearmament program.
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