Evening star., 1941-05-25
Candidates for Naval Academy
In Reserve Due to Train Here
Navy Department Issues New Rules
For Young Officer Applicants

Washington Is expected to become
the training center for Naval Re-
servists, who are seeking appoint
ment as midShipmen at the United
States Naval Academy under plan
of the Navy Department TO provide
means for them to prepare for the
tests which each must take for the
100 appointments each year.
EnliStments now are being re-
ceived from those who contemplate
competing for the appointments for
the class which will enter the school
on July /, 1912. The classes for this
year are awaiting the results of the
recent examinations. Those who re-
ceive appointments, if physically
qualified, will be ordered direct to
the Naval Academy, while the un-
successful candidates will be held
on an inactive status until there is
need for them in the service, when
they will be called to active duty
in the rates which they hold.
Officials of the local Reserve urge
that those contemplating trying for
appointment should take the neceS-
Sary steps promptly, as they have
to be enlisted by next July l in
order to comply with the years serv-
ice requirement. AS a number of
ReSerVlStS are expected TO come
here from other jurisdictions officials
said that they hope that the physical
examinations will be completed in
their local areas before they come to
Washington. In this connection it
was pointed out that the physical
examinations, in some respects, is
more strict for candidates for the
academy than for an enlisted man,
because it is necessary to make
refractory eye tests. Failure in
these means that the applicant is
eliminated for the academy compe-
tition.
Three or More Divisions.
In view of the present plan for
relieving the men, by placing them
in an active status, officers expect
there will be three or more divisions
here drilling during the major part
of next year. All of the organized
Reserve divisions now have been
called into the active service, which
would have practically eliminated
all Reserve activities here, except
for the new orders of the Navy De-
partment to make some provision
for the young men seeking the
coveted appointments. Actually
more than 100 ReservistS may re-
ceive appointments because of the
provision of the law which gives to
the Reservists all appointments from
the regular service which the latter
cannot fill from its ranks. Further
more. in the case of a Naval Re-
servist who is competing for ap-
pointment from that source and who
also receives a congressional ap-
pointment, it is the policy of the
Navy Department to require that the
man accept the congressional ap-
pointment so that a Reservist may
attend.
Heretofore, the rules have re-
quired that the candidates shall at
tend regular drills with an organized
division. but the calling of the divi-
sion into active service has necessi-
tated some changes in the require
ments. The Navy Department an
nounced that Naval Reserves on
active duty are eligible for appoint
ment to the Naval Academy and
transfer to the Naval Academy pre-
paratory schools in the same manner
as men Of the Regular Navy pro-
vided they meet the requirements
for entrance to the Naval Academy
and for the Naval Academy prepara-
tory schools. Prior to July l, next,
the recruiting service has been au-
thorized to enlist candidates for ap-
pointment to the naval school in