 they're not part of the U.S. military. In the early 1950s, the military was facing a personnel crisis. It needed more recruits. Tell me about Talent Patrol and the role it played in recruiting new soldiers. If you turned on the radio, the television, or opened a magazine at the time, you were probably getting some kind of a pitch to join the U.S. military. So part of that was this show that you mentioned called Talent Patrol.