These new branches offered more pay and new challenges for NCOs looking to advance their career.

NCOs also, for the first time, found themselves able to apply for transfers to new branches, as the creation of the Paratroopers and Paragliders offered new career opportunities. The Army began using non-commissioned officers who were on active duty prior to the war as the primary trainers for troops destined for overseas duty. Roosevelt referred to as, 'a date which will live in infamy.'īeing forced to assemble an Army to fight in both Europe and the Pacific, the Army began a massive recruitment of new Soldiers. remaining neutral in the war ended after the Japanese launched an attack against U.S. 7, 1941 at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the idea of the U.S. was carefully watching its territories in the Pacific as the Japanese began advancing across the ocean. began to supply aid to the Allied Forces of Great Britain and France against the Axis Powers in Europe of Germany and Italy.

In September 1939, the world again was thrust into a global conflict after Germany unexpectedly attacked Poland, officially starting World War II.

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