Twice the Citizen, 1908-1995: A History of the United States Army Reserve

Twice the Citizen: A History of the U.S. Army Reserve, 1908-1995 (Department of the Army Pamphlet 140-14)xxii, 680 pp. "The United States Army Reserve originated on April 23, 1908, the result of lessons learned from the Spanish-American War and the realization that the Regular Army could not provide enough medical personnel to take care of needs of an expanded wartime force. It's beginnings were quite modest: commissions as first lieutenants were initially given to 160 Army contract physicians who became the first members of the federal reserve corps. From that small beginning has grown the modern day Army Reserve of thousands of units and hundreds of thousands of well-trained men and women."Keywords: TWICE CITIZEN AMERICAN HISTORY MILITARY US ARMY RESERVE 1908-1995 SIGNED