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soldiers reportedly recruited through the program varies, from more than 320,000 to 354,000, which included both voluntary enlistees and draftees (54% and 46%, respectively). Entrance requirements were loosened, but all the
Project 100,000 men were sent through normal training programs with other recruits, and performance standards thus were the same for everyone. The
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of "normal" soldiers. Each category was identified in the soldiers' official personnel records by a large red letter stamped on the first page of their enlistment contracts. Human resources offices had to prepare reports on them to be submitted monthly to the
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McNamara was a lover of technology... McNamara believed he could win the war in
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