For many years each of the three national associations, American Pharmaceutical Association, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, had a standing or annually appointed a committee on the Establishment of a Pharmaceutical Corps in the United States Army. The committees were appointed for the purpose explained by the committee title.
After fifty years of futile effort and the expenditure of much time in legislative endeavor, the associations decided to drop their insistence on a separate corps for pharmacists and adopted another plan for improving the pharmaceutical service in the army by legislation which would grant a certain number of commissions to qualified pharmacists in the Medical Administrative Corps.
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