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" MElVl'~RAND.UM FOR COLONEL BUMM, SAFSP 

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SUBJECT: Requests for Occupational 'Deferments 

This,responds to your memorandum of March 20, 1968 

(BYE 16639-68) in which you asked me to review a scheme you 

had proposed to handle deferment actions at Eastman-Kodak. 

You will recall our earlier discussions -- just after I had received your memo -- in which I expressed our reservations about 

providing a general letter written at high-level in OSD to cover EK's 

position; then permitting EK to submit statements referencing the 

cover letter on behalf of each individual applicant. Our concern, of 

course, was that the condition "only when we (EK) believe it is jus-, 

tifie d" would not be ob je cti ve ly and prudently applie d. 

Our feeling was, and is, that we should insist on a more objective 

appraisal of the" criticality" of the services of such individuals by EK 

and SAFSP. 

To this end, we agreed to devise the criteria which would serve 

as the basis for determining an individual's criticality and which could 

be used by you to establish with EK a mechanism for the review and 

processing of the individual requests. 

We have established three criteria which we feel will insure that 

we are asked to sponsor only those individuals who are clearly essential to program accomplishment. I have attached a listing of the criteria along with two "procedural caveats" for your review and possible 

use in establishing an appropriate mechanism. 

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eac'h case, your assurance that the criteria had been applied to and 

satisfied by the individual applicant. 

Trust this helps resolve the issue. 

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Criteria: 

1. The individual must have completed at least two years 

special training (at an accredited University or Institute) which has 

uniquely qualified him for his assigned duties. 

2. The individual must have principally participated inand/or 

have been responsible for the development of special techniques or 

manipulations (such as: . grinding large mirrors or aspherics) which 

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3. The individual must occupy a unique position, in the construction, 

development or operation of an on-going system, for which no qualified 

replFlceme nt is currently available .. but. for which a designated individual 

has been assigned and is being trained. 

Procedural Caveats: 

In all cases,. the inference of a' selective service deferment is 

for a maximum period of one year, during which period EKC r1l.Ust 

undertake and complete replacement training. 

Although an individual may be occupying a position currently 

considered unique for a system in critical development stage --

once the critical phase of development has passed (e. g .• commencement of on -the -shelf production) neither the position nor the individual 

in that position is to be considered critical. 

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