The Arizona copper camp., 1920-12-04
MEMORANDUM OF INFORMATION
CONCERNING OFFICERS
RESERVE CORPS


to the following classes of persons:
CD Persons who served as officers
of the United States Army at
any time between April 6, 1917,
and June 80, 1919.
(2) Former officers of the Regular
Army
(3) Officers of the National Guard
on June 4, 1920.
(N Reserve Officers Training
Corps graduates in accordance
with changes six, special regu
lations number 43, War De-
partment, 1919.
Original appointments of discharged
officers are limited by the Army Re-
organization Act, approved June 4,
1920, to an equal or lower grade than
that held in active service. Persons
who held National Guard commissions
on June 4, 1920, may be appointed in
the Officers Reserve Corps in the
same grade as held in the National
Guard on that date. Promotions will
be made under such regulations as
may be prescribed by the president
and as far as practicable upon recon-
mendations in the established chain
of command, but no Reserve Corps
officer will he promoted to any grade
in time of peace until he has held a
commission for at least one year in
the next lower grade.
2. Appointments must be between
the ages of twenty-one and sixty years
at the time of appointment, and no
appointment in effect or hereafter
made will be terminated on account
Of age. The commissions are issued
for a period of five years unless
sooner terminated at the discretion Of
the president All appointees must be
citizens of the United States or the
Philippine Islands. The Act of June 4
provides that except for temporary in
creased grade for Regular Army Of
ficers, all appointments of officers in
time of war shall be in the Officers
Reserve Corps. The entire matter Of
appointment, instruction, promotion,
obligations and privileges of members
of the Officers Reserve Corps is being
made subject of careful study and
regulations in such connection will be
issued as soon as practicable At that
time an effort will be made to supply
all reserve officers.
3. The Act approved June 4, 1920,
provides concerning relative rank of
officers as follows:
unless special assignment is
made by the president under the
provisions of the 119th article of
war, all officers in the active serv-
ice of the United States in any
grade shall take rank according to
date, which, in the case Of an Of
ficer of the Regular Army, is that
stated in his commission or letter
of appointment, and in the case of
a reserve officer or an officer of the
National Guard called into the serv-
ice of the United States, shall pre-
cede that on which he is placed on
active duty Ey period equal to
the total length of active service
which he may have performed in
the grade in which called or any
higher grade. When dates Of rank
are the same, precedence shall be
determined by length of active COM
missioned service in the army.
When length of such service is the
same, officers of the Regular Army
shall take rank among themselves
according to their places on the
promotion list, preceding reserve
and National Guard officers of the
same date of rank and length of
service, who shall take rank among
themselves according to age"
4. To be qualified for immediate
active service requires preparation
and study on the part of reserve corps
officers and in order to keep abreast
of the latest military thought, govern
ment publications should be procured
from the superintendent of docu-
ments, Government Printing Office,
D. G. A price list of
publications may be procured
from that official upon request The
price Of such publications merely COW
ers cost of printing. The War De-
partment cannot at the present time,
on account Of other activities, under
take to furnish reserve officers with
text books To enable reserve Of
ficers to keep informed of current
events, and to keep in touch
with latest developments, pending the
issue of definite instructions by the
War Department, they are encour-
aged to join the association of officers