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Military
The militia years: the county under the state militia law
Item 2 — the standing companies, from organization forward — NAMED GAP at company-name strength
Before there were regiments there was a legal obligation, and St. Joseph County stood inside it from the state's first general revision after the county was organized. Pratt's history of the National Guard of Indiana (1901)…
The Guard test: no Indiana National Guard unit is stationed in New Carlisle
Item 3 — the named Guard lineage carried to the present unit — tested, boundary size
The test was run against the Indiana National Guard's own published community record, and the answer for this town is none. The Military Department of Indiana's "Indiana National Guard in Your Community" record — the state's own…
The armories: a succession that stands in South Bend, not here
Item 4 — the armories as a succession — tested negative for this town
No armory has stood in New Carlisle in the record reached, and the county's armory succession can be told whole without this town appearing in it. The test is the same record as the Guard test, plus the state's armory-board…
The wartime installation, whole: the proving ground under the Army, 1943–1945
Item 5 — the county's wartime-installation test run for this ground — one installation, at its true size
One wartime installation did stand on this township's ground — not a camp, not an airfield, not an ordnance plant, but a civilian proving ground taken over by the Army Ordnance Department for the last two years of the Second…
The standing wings are other cities': the modern presence test
Item 6 — the standing modern unit/wing as a standing presence — boundary lines only
No standing military unit is seated in New Carlisle, and the state's standing wings can be named in two lines because both belong to other cities. The Military Department of Indiana's own Air National Guard record lists the…
The rest of the wartime footprint: what was here, and what was not
Item 7 — both world wars, the footprint tested whole — MIXED: the positive half prints, the residue goes to the Gazette
For both world wars the township's footprint is a short list of presences and a longer, verified list of absences. WHAT WAS HERE. In the Second World War: the Army's proving-ground tenancy of 1943–45, in the article above; a town…
The defense city test: I/N Tek and I/N Kote in the federal contract record
Item 8 — USAspending / DLA record for the township's firms, run as an explicit test — MIXED: a thin return, printed as the finding
The township's two great firms are steel finishers for the automobile and appliance trades — and the public federal-contract record reached shows no defense business for either of them. What the firms are is documented at full…
Draft boards and recruiting: the machinery stood in South Bend
Item 10 — Selective Service as an institution, 1917–18 and 1940–45, at published strength
Olive Township's men were registered, classified and called by boards they had to travel to — the county's Selective Service machinery was seated in South Bend in both world wars. The published frame for 1917–18 is the National…
The later wars at the same standard, printed whole
Item 5 — the post-1975 test: Iraq and Afghanistan-era dead with a New Carlisle home of record
No serviceman or servicewoman who died in the Iraq or Afghanistan era carries a home of record of New Carlisle, Indiana, in the casualty record searched — and the search is printed so the zero can be audited. (1) The Indiana roll…