Evening star., 1941-06-15
Naval Reserve Active Duty Calls
Stepped Up by Local Unit
Both Officers and Men Getting
Orders in Increasing Numbers

might spell the difference between
getting in the Academy and losing
the chance forever, particularly II
the candidates are near the maxi
mum age limit Of 2l years on April
/, next.
The recruiting of these men is
being done by the regular naval
recruiting station in the Winder
Building, at Seventeenth and F
streets NV, which also has the
additional function Of enlisting men
for naval service for regular and
immediate duty. In order to be
eligible under the requirement of
one year Of service in the Reserve
up to the time of entrance at the
Academy on July /, 1912, all candi-
dates must be enlisted by June 80,
next.
Short Active Duty Period.
Soon after the candidates are
enlisted they will be called to i'm
mediate active duty and dispatched
to one of the naval training sta
tions, where they face an eight
week intensive indoctrination course
in naval practices and procedure,
as well as technical training, in
cluding drilling and discipline. At
the conclusion of this period they
will be returned to their home
stations and placed on an inactive
status to attend a school to pre-
pare for the competitive tests next
spring. They Will be required to
attend regular weekly drills at the
local Naval Reserve Headquarters.
1t was made known last week,
however, that if the men desire
they may stay in the service and
attend one of the naval preparatory
schools at the naval training sta
ton to which they are assigned.
In connection with the efforts to
obtain young college men to attend
instruction courses leading to the
commissioning of the rank Of ensign
in the Naval Reserve, it was said
that although the second phase OF
such a training program is not
scheduled to begin until mid-Sep-
tember, more than $4,000 candi-
dates have already applied for en-
listment as apprentice seamen IN
this new Naval Reserve Glass VT.
The last classes of the first phase
of the program convened on the
U. S. S. Prairie State, the former
| bat'leship Illinois, last week, and al
Northwestern University tomorrow
In this first phase of the program
$500 men enlisted for the prelim-
| mary training, and of this number
| 500 qualified for the three-month
| courses as Naval Reserve midship-
men, and it is now anticipated that
4,700 of these will successfully COM
plete the course and qualify for
! commissions.
Most of the young men now
| qualifying are said to be for deck
duty. The new program contem-
| plates training 1900 Naval Reserve
/ midshipmen in seven classes, three
| classes at Northwestern, three or
board the Prairie State and one a.
the Naval Academy at Annapolis
In the first two the classes will begir
on September 18, but at the Nava
Academy the first class will not bt
assembled until January 9. But il
the second phase of the program, i
is contemplated training half o
the midshipmen for deck duties ant
the other half for engineering
duties. That is one of the reason
that in calling for graduates from
college the Navy is paying especia
attention TO those with bachelor o
science degrees. and PARTICULAR
those with science in engineering
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