Melvin J. Maas was a Marine Corps officer, combat pilot, and member of Congress. Maas’s unique view of American defense in the Interwar Period led him to promote the modernization the Navy and Marine Corps Reserve, which resulted in the formation of a well trained pool of semi-professional personnel prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. This study first examines the evolution of the formation of the reserve system of the American Armed Forces during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, in order to understand the state of the Marine Corps Reserve that Maas joined in 1925. As a marine reservist and a Representative from Minnesota, Maas was able to identify key areas for improvement within the Marine Reserve, Naval Reserve, and eventually the reserves of all the branches of the American military. With Maas as its focus, this analysis of the changing reserve system shows the importance he had on modernizing the Marine Corps Reserve, thereby greatly enhancing the ability of the Marine Corps to mobilize in both 1940 and 1950. Maas’s direct alterations to the Navy and Marine Corps reserve system were essential to the creation of the modern reserve policies of all of the American Armed Forces, and thus aided greatly in improving the US defense structure after the Second World War. The primary sources consulted for this study include letters, journals, and other pertinent material from the Melvin J. Maas Collection located at the Minnesota State Archives in St. Paul and Congressional Records located at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C..
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机译：梅尔文·马斯（Melvin J. Maas）是海军陆战队军官，战斗飞行员和国会议员。马斯在两次世界大战期间对美国国防的独特见解促使他推动了海军和海军陆战队预备役的现代化，这导致在第二次世界大战爆发之前形成了训练有素的半专业人才库。这项研究首先考察了19世纪末至20世纪初美国武装部队预备役制度形成的演变过程，以了解马斯1925年加入的海军陆战队预备役的状况。来自明尼苏达州的代表马斯（Maas）能够确定需要改进的主要领域，包括海军储备，海军储备，以及最终美军所有分支的储备。以马斯为重点，对不断变化的后备役制度进行的分析表明，他对海军陆战队后备队现代化具有重要意义，从而极大地增强了海军陆战队在1940年和1950年之间动员的能力。军备役制度对于创建所有美国武装部队的现代后备政策至关重要，因此在第二次世界大战后大大改善了美国的国防结构。本研究参考的主要信息来源包括圣保罗明尼苏达州州立档案馆的Melvin J.Maas馆藏的信件，期刊和其他相关材料，以及华盛顿特区国会图书馆的国会记录。
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