AMERICAN PLANS
PEACETIME MARINES FORCE
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28,
Plans to use American marines as "minute men" in an international organisation to maintain peace were disclosed by the commandant of marines, General Vandegrift, testifying before the House of Representatives Naval Affairs Committee.
Urging a post-war marines force of 100,000 men, with 9200 officers, General Vandegrift said that in the event of the non-success of the present efforts towards an international organisation to prevent war, the scope of the marines force would be expanded. A force of minute men would be held in readiness to be moved instantly with the fleet to any part of world to strike hard and promptly and forestall at its beginning any attempt to disrupt world peace.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 79, 1 October 1945, Page 7
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