Evening star., 1935-05-12
Reserve Aviation
Duties to Be Increased
Four Officers to Be Placed on Active Duty
Here to Train Men for Aviator
Commissions.

r INCREASED training activity will
be put into effect at the head
quarters of the Aviation Division
/ of the United States Naval Re-
serve at the Naval Air Station at
Anacostia under the terms of a letter
received during the week. The activ-
ity consists of taking on q number OF
enlisted men with view to giving
them a period Of intensive training
and then sending them to the Naval
Air Station at Pensacola, Fla, where
they will complete course which
will lead to a commission In the
Aviation Reserve. They also will be
given a long period Of active duty
with the fleet as naval aviators.
The move indicates a sudden ex-
pansion of the aviation activities OF
! the Navy, and it was indicated that
four Reserve officers here will be
ordered to indefinite periods OF
active duty for the purpose OF carry
ing out the program. Other Naval
Reserve aviation units throughout the
country also will participate in this
| expansion movement.
| Efforts now are being made to re-
cruit the necessary number of en-
listed men to fulfill the departments
plans. It was indicated Chat the
first class will begin on June 10 and,
in order to have the details COM
pleted by that time, those interested
in becoming naval aviators should
have their applications on file at the
l @f h4 Ar0 q
Naval Air Station prior to May Is.
Generally, 1t was said, the plans
provide for one class of six men
each month. The six men will be
given an intensive course here. the
purpose of which will be to determine
whether they are suitable for further
training as naval aviators. Those
found up to the measurements Of the
| Navy will be sent, at the end Of the
30-day period, to the Pensacola sta
ton for the aviation training, which
will eventually, if they successfully
pass, give them commissions as
ensigns in the Naval Reserve Avia-
tior Service.
The general requirements for ap-
pointment are:
Be q male citizen of the United
States.
Be not less than 18 years of age nor
over % years at the time Of ap-
pointment as aviation cadet.
Agree with the consent of parent
or guardian, II minor to remain
on active duty four years dncluding
period Of training at Pensacola, if
such is authorized by the Navy De-
partment).
Be unmarried and remain so dur
ing the period of active duty with the
Navy.
| Agree to maintain flying efficiency
so far as is practicable by associating
himself with Naval Reserve aviation
unit, after completing his training
and required active duty and receiv-
ing commission in the Naval Reserve
Be mentally. morally, physically
and psychologically qualified for ap-
pointment as aviation cadet, In &C.
cordance with prescribed standards.
Must not be a member Of any other
military organization except the Ma
val Militia.
| The educational requirements are
that the applicants must be gradu-
ates Of recognized universities or COL
leges, preferably: graduates of Naval
Reserve Officers Training Corps units
who have been certified by the Bu-
reau Of Navigation, Navy Depart
ment, as eligible for commission in
the Naval Reserve; those who have
satisfactorily completed q course in
aeronautical engineering.
Candidates who can present O GER
tificate signed by the registrar of a
recognized university or college, show
ing that they possess a mathematical
education, which as a minimum shall
cover a complete treatise as set forth
in Robinsons New Higher Arithme-
tic; Wentworth's College Algebra;
Wentworth's Plane and Solid Geom-
etry; plane trigonometry as set forth
| in Wentworth's New Plane and Spher-
ical Geometry, and Milliken and
Gales Practical Physics, or in other
similar recognized standard text books
of equivalent scope.
| However, 1t was pointed out in the
letter outlining the requirements that
candidates who are unable to qualify
under any Of the above conditions.
but whose training Is such as to give
them substantially an equivalent
knowledge would be eligible. These
candidates will be required to submit
such documentary evidence Of record
and education as can be furnished.
The applicants may come from the
Regular Navy or Naval Reserve ranks
or from civil life. The candidates fol
aviation training will be selected BY
the Bureau of Navigation from nomi.
nations submitted by the comman.
dants Of the various naval districts. /
considered practicable by the com.
mandants, students will be selected by
board of at least three officers Thess
boards, it was said, should be com.
posed of two naval aviators, Regular
or Reserve, who are familiar with ths
problems of Reserve aviation and thu
training Of students, and, II practica.
bic, of the flight surgeon, who ha!
performed the physical examination
of the candidates.
It was explained that the training
will take place In three phases as FOL
lows:
Selected candidates will be enlisted
as seamen, second class, in the U. s
Naval Reserve, and shall be given
course Of elimination flight training
before consideration for appointment
as aviation cadets. In the cases
however, Of enlisted men Of the Reg
ular Navy, selected candidates shal
receive elimination training in theil
current ratings, upon the successful
completion Of which they shall b
discharged from the Regular servic'
before being appointed as aviation
cadets. This preliminary or elimina
1 finra c0airsa will last about an dYS dur