Evening star., 1941-12-28
Navy Will Intensity
Reserves Program
After January |
Campaign to Enlist
College Students
Will Be Started

While drills and exercises for the
Naval Reserve divisions here have
been temporarily suspended for the
holiday period, officers in charge OF
the training work say the program
will be resumed with intensity the
first week in the new year. How
ever, their officers will have to re-
main at their posts to carry on the
work of recruiting reservists.
Although local Reserve headquar-
ters has been hard pressed since the
first attack at Pearl Harbor, there
was a noticeable lull last week,
which was ascribed to the fact that
with the approaching holidays men
who desire to enlist had put 1t OF
temporarily.
Aside from enisting men for I'M
mediate active duty in the Reserve
forces. local headquarters will take
up the new program of the Navy to
enlist seniors and juniors in col
leges In Washington and vicinity.
These men will be allowed to re-
main on the inactive list until they
complete their schooling and at the
same time will be excluded from
selective service.
College Program Explained.
It was announced that college
men, graduates, seniors. juniors ana
even sophomoreS may become ON
GERS in the Naval Reserve Tor deck
engineering and flying duties under
the training program mapped out.
The Navy said it needs 1000 seniors
now in college. or college graduates,
between the ages of 10 and 28, ana
unmarried, as prospective olllcers
for deck and engineering dutles:
Seniors who enlist now for deck and
engineering officer training Will not
be called to active duty before next
June. Seven thousand college Juniors
are needed for the same duties.
Juniors who enlist now for deck ana
engineering duties may continue III
college until 1912. but may be called
TO active duty during the period
while not attending college in sum-
mer of 1912.
On completion of their college
education, accepted applicants Will
be given four months instruction
as apprentice seamen and Reserve
midshipmen, the successful compile
ton of which will lead to their ap-
pointment as ensigns in the Naval
Reserve for general service. The
term general service means they
will be sent to shipboard duties or
anv other duty performed by regular
line officers. as distinguished from
specialists who are only taken IN
for particular duty.
Juniors and seniors enlisted for
deck and engineering officers, known
as class VT, who fail to complete
their work and thus fail to qualify
educationally for training at one OF
the Naval Reserve midShipmen's
schools, either will be transferred to
another enlisted class of the Naval
Reserve for which they are quail
fed or will be discharged, at the
discretion of the Navy Department.
They will not be discharged on their
own request.
Air Quota Not Restricted.
College students enlisting to be-
come naval aviation officers will not
be required to commence training
until the completion of their cur
rent college year. The quota OF
men to be recruited for flying Of
ficers. known as class vs., is not
restricted, for the Navy intends to
step up pilot training in the Naval
Reserve to a monthly input rate OF
$500 at the earliest practicable date.
Under the vs. program men be-
tween 20 and 81 years OF age with
two or more years of college training
who complete the eight months NY
ing and training course are COM
missioned as ensigns, U. S. N. r.. for
flight duties in the aeronautical Or
ganization of the Navy.
College juniors and seniors who
enlist now as prospective naval
aviators may be deferred from call
to active duty until completion OF
their current college year if they
so request. Thereafter, they will be
assigned to active training duty in
the earliest class in which they can
be accommodated.
Sophomores may be enlisted pro-
vided they can present letters from
the registrars of their respective
colleges standing that they are cur
rently enrolled in the college and
have every reasonable expectation
Of completing the two-year college
requirement of class VS. at the
end of the current school year.