VOLUNTEER ARMY OF YOUNG AMERICANS
CONSERVATION CORPS READY TO ACT (Received December 21, 9.45 p.m.) MIAMI (Florida), December 21. Mr Robert Fechner, director of emergency conservation work, said that the United States had 2,300,000 youths trained in Civil Conservation Corps camps ready to act as a volunteer army in an emergency. They could be turned into first-class fighting men almost at an instant's notice. “While not militarized in the ordinary sense of the word their training is such that they are about 85 per cent, prepared for military life,” said Mr Fechner.
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Southland Times, Issue 23389, 22 December 1937, Page 5
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