Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1920 — MANY QUIT THE TANK CORPS [ARTICLE]

MANY QUIT THE TANK CORPS

Few Re-enlistments to Replace Men Leaving to Get Better Pay , Elsewhere. j _ Washington.—The army tank corpe

has suffered from mnny resignations and few re-enlistments, because soldiers trained in this arm of the service find It easy to obtain lucrative employment in civil life, says the annual report of Brig. Gen. S. D. Rockenbach, chief of the corps, mude public. The corps returned from France in July, 1919. with a greatly depleted personnel, but In the last fiscal year a net gain of 20 officers and 1,546 enlisted men was made. Although the corps possessed more than 800 tlfnks when It left France, all were in poor repair and none ready for battle, General Rockenbach states.