A June 30, 1969, annual report filed by John N. Owens, then adjutant general of the Indiana Guard, showed that the Guard had 10,255 men, 52 more than it was authorized to have by the Pentagon.

But the Indiana Guard appears to have been overstrength about the time Mr. Quayle was sworn in.

According to the report of the adjutant general of the Indiana Guard for the fiscal year 1969, the "federally authorized strength of active Army National Guard on 30 June 1969 was 10,203.

The officer who actually swore Mr. Quayle into the headquarters unit, Col. Alfred F. Ahner, then chief of staff of the Indiana Guard and later its commander, could not be reached for comment.

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After serving as a full-time staff officer with the Indiana Guard, Ahner was appointed as Adjutant General in 1960 by Governor Harold Handley.

The lone Indiana Guard unit mobilized in the war, the D Company Rangers, suffered three casualties, according to Cathi Kiger, a spokesman for the Indiana Guard.

John Owens, who was Adjutant General of the Indiana Guard from January 1969 to August 1972, said in an interview that he could not recall any special treatment by anyone for Mr. Quayle.

There were conflicting assessments today on whether it was hard to get into the Indiana Guard at that time.

In 1917 he was commissioned in the Indiana Guard after the United States entered World War I and was assigned to pilot training.