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universal military training

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noun

  1. a program for maintaining a nation's pool of trained military personnel, requiring all qualified citizens to serve for a period of active and reserve duty. UMT


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It had failed to act on some pressing problems: housing, universal military training, the Stratton bill, authorizing the admission of 400,000 displaced persons to the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

President Eisenhower last week asked Congress to extend the draft and to approve a reserve program that included a modified version of universal military training.

From Time Magazine Archive

Council of C.I.O., the first NLRB, OPA, socialized medicine, universal military training, � The Fair Employment Practice Commission.

From Time Magazine Archive

Naturally, that legislation has to be based on what comes from the Congress in regard to the manpower problem, which really means universal military training and service.

From Time Magazine Archive

From this meeting Wood absorbed more of the necessity for universal military training and more of the aversion to a standing army such as existed in Germany.

From The Career of Leonard Wood by Sears, Joseph Hamblen

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