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Million Enlisted Men
Needed for Program
Of 50,000 Planes
Air Corps Confronting
Tremendous Job in
Training Specialists
By JOSEPH S. EDGERTON.
Training of »ens and possibly hun
dreds of thousands of skilled avia
tion mechanics as a part of the Na
tion's air defense program, may be
expected to have far-reaching and
permanent effects on many branches
of American industry after the
emergency period has passed.
The Army Air Corps adopts no
halfway measures in the training of
its mechanics and specialists. They
are trained more thoroughly than
mechanics in many industries and a
discharged Army or Navy aviation
mechanic or machinist has no diffi
culty getting into the higher bracket
jobs in any one of a number of in
dustries.
The Air Corps and the Navy train
a number of varieties of specialists
for the complicated task of keeping
a modern air force in operation.
Among the specialists now being
graduated from the Air Corps Tech
nical School and the seven civilian
mechanics' schools operating under
contract with the Air Corps are air
plane mechanics, aircraft machinists,
welders, metal workers, radiomen,
parachute men. armorers, photog
raphers, enginemen and weather
men. In addition the Air Corps is
training supply clerks stenographers,
teletype operators and such military
specialists as bombers
23.644 Enlisted in Year.
During the current fiscal year the
Army Air Corps nas enlisted a total
of 23,644 additional enlisted men and
now is completing thi training of
17.149 of this number as specialists.
The total number of enlisted men in
the Air Corps reached 44,537 this
spring, as compared with a total of
4.663 officers. Regular and Reserve.
These proportions are expected to
hold true through any expansion of
the Air Corps. There must be ap
proximately 10 enlisted men to one
officer-pilot and approximately 7 of
10 of these enlisted men will be
specialists in one capacity or an
other, and highly trained specialists,
at that, before the Air Corps is
through with them. Maintenance
of the modern military airplane and
its equipment means life and death
to its personnel and success or fail
ure to its military mission It can
not be entrusted to tyros. The price
of air success is the thorough train
ing of air and ground personnel. No
phase of this training can be neg
lected or skimped. No organization
knows this better than an aviation
outfit, especially a military outfit
facing the possibility of action
Should the United States build up
an air force of 50.000 airplanes, in
accordance with the strong recom
mendations of President Roosevelt,
a minimum of 100.000 pilots will be
required. Bombardment airplanes,
expected to compose something like
half of the total combat air force,
carry two pilots. For efficiency it
is generally accepted that there
should be at least two full crews
per airplane, since modern aircraft
have stamina enough to keep in
continuous operation far longer than
their crews.
Personnel of 1,000,000.
Reports from Europe indicate that
the pilots on both sides are flying
to the exhaustion point because
there are not sufficient relief crews
available, and that when they are
withdrawn of necessity, the planes
are temporarily idle.
On the basis of a pilot force of
100.000 or more, therefore, the en
listed personnel of the Air Corps
alone would amount to at least
1,000.000 men and of this number
about 700,000 would have to be
trained as specialists. Nearly 400,
000 of these specialists would be
airplane mechanics and some 180.
000 would be trained as radiomen
for the operation of ground and air
craft radio installations and for
repair and maintenance of radio j
equipment. The other 120,000 spe
cialists would have to be trained
as welders, metal workers, parachute
men, armorers, photographers,
weathermen and enginemen.
The problem of training the neces
sary specialists is one of the tre
mendous jobs facing the Air Corps
under the emergency expansion pro
gram. Fortunately, the problem al
ready is in process of solution, as is
the parallel problem of training
Pilots. The Air Corps Technical
School has been greatly expanded.
Chanute Field, Rantoul, 111., for
merly the sole home of the school,
today is one of three school cen
ters. Scott Field, 111., and the huge
new Lowry Field, Colo., one of the
largest Air Corps posts, have been
developed for the training of spe
cialists. In addition, the Air Corps
has contracts with seven outstand
ing civilian aviation mechanics'
schools covering the primary train
ing of Air Corps mechanics.
During the current fiscal year
6.980 specialists have gone through
the Air Corps schools and 1,000
through the civilian schools. The
system, well established and' func
tioning efficiently and smoothly, is
capable of great enlargement to
r.ieet future needs.
Gen. Arnold Praises Recruits.
The enlistment of Air Corps re
cruits under the current expansion
program, was virtually completed by
March. Congress authorized a total
of 45:000 men and the Air Corps has
recruited up to 44,537, the limit ol
funds actually available. Virtually
all the recruits are graduates of high
schools or have the equivalent of
this education in trade experience.
They are, according to Maj. Gen.
Henry H. Arnold, chief of the Army
Air Corps, “men of excellent char
acter and have demonstrated a high
degree of physical fitness and apti
tude for service in the Air Corps.”
The program for training enlisted
mechanics in the civilian schools has
been progressing on schedule. A
total of 1,170 of the 1,500 authorized
to be admitted to these schools dur
ing the current fiscal year had been
admitted by March 1 and the first
class of 108 was graduated January
31. Courses last an average of 28
weeks and all of the 1,500 author
ized this year are expected to com
plete their training this summer.
Of 2,200 Air Corps enlisted men
taking specialists’ courses on whom
reports now are available, 1,200 are
being trained as airplane mechanics,
44 as aircraft machinists, 34 as
welders, 69 as metal workers. 590 as
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radiomen, 95 as parachute men, 77
as armorers, 27 as photographers,
58 as weather men and 66 as engine
men. Approximately these propor
tions will hold good regardless of
the size of the enlisted strength of
the Air Corps.
Courses of Various Lengths.
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fiscal year or in prior fiscal years
and had 3,600 more in school. This
left a total of some 15.000 enlisted
men under this year’s program still
to be trained in the various special
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Under the new school set-up, Scott
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specialized mechanical branches, and
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cialties. The courses are of various
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