New recruiting factors
i The Army has not yet been able to assess the effect the 1 recently announced withdrawal of its artillery unit ' from Vietnam will have on recruiting of gunners. During the Vietnam conflict there has been a recruiting priority for infantrymen ' and gunners, most of whom serve three-year terms. An Army spokesman in Christchurch said that there had been a steady flow of recruits into the artillery and it was hoped that this would be maintained.
The Army is still interested in getting infantrymen for Vietnam service.
The job of providing a sufficient number of gunners for overseas tours has not always been easy. In addition to men recruited “off the street” the Army has relied on infantry with experience in Malaysia transferring to the artillery in Vietnam. Once all New Zealand’s troops leave Vietnam the only overseas service available will be in Singapore, with training in Malaysia. In the first quarter of 1971 Army recruiting in the. South Island is up 10 per cent over the same period last year, and is about the 1969 level.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32564, 25 March 1971, Page 15
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