“National Guard Drops Summer Training Plans” from the Saturday, May 10,
1947, issue of the Statesville Record Landmark
RALEIGH—North Carolina’s National Guardsmen, less than 10
per cent of the state’s quota, gave up plans for a summer encampment today
after Adjutant General J. Van B. Metts announced enlistments were too low to
hold a 15-day training course.
Units which have been organized are not properly equipped
for an encampment, Metz added.
The summer training could include only units which had been
inspected by April 15, when the North Carolina guard had only 465 officers and
men out of a quota of 13,000.
Later enlistments have raised the strength in 15 units and
the total will rise to 1,200 when other units complete their organization in a
few weeks, he said.
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