Evening star., 1941-07-06
Guard and Reserve
Officers Facing New
Promotion Tests
Efficiency Reports
On Field Service
Now Being Made

Within the next few weeks 1t is
expected that promotions through.
out the several grades in the Ma
tional Guard and Reserves, particu-
larly in junior grades, will be made.
The War Department has been
studying the Reserve promotion SIT
uation for the last two months, and
the promotions to be made shortly
will be a result Of that study.
The Reserve promotion situation
involves some complications. For
example, captain in the Rergular
Army with 1872 years OF service
may not be promoted permanently
until he has completed II years OF
service, and alongside him there
NAV be a Reserve captain with IL
years Of service and only eight
months of active duty who is pro-
NOTED automatically to major and
becomes senior to man OF lo'7
years of active service.
AS Reserve officers complete
year of active service. there VIII ne
established basis on which to estl-
mate efficiency. The situation With
the National Guard is similar, but
with a difficult age situation. The
Naional Guard has younger brlga-
der generals than the Regular
Army. In the Guard they go down
to 43 years. They will all partlcl-
pate in the maneuvers this summer,
and all will have the same oppor-
tunities to demonstrate their worth.
Reports Now Coming In,
Beginning last Monday the new
efficiency reports started coming In,
and they will indicate results OF
from six to eight months of service
in the field In addition. the man.
euver reports will be available from
time to time as field operations
progress
Col Benjamin F. Castle. Air Re-
serve, heads a group of Washington
Reserve officers who have been de-
tailed as additional members Of a
board of officers meeting in Wash
ington to examine officers residing
in this area for promotions to the
next higher grade. Other local off,
GERS on the board include 1t. Cols.
A. c. Gray and John H. Jouett, Majs.
William F. Centner, George w.
Haskins and Harry NJ. Wheeler, and
Capts. Clement c. Alpert, Dennis
Mulligan and Luther H. Snyder.
Under a new policy established
by the War Department, junior and
senior medical students attending
/ George Washington University, in
stead of receiving blanket defer
ment from selective service. may be
commissioned in the Medical Ad-
ministrative Corps Reserve. pending
| completion of their studies. The
new plan became effective July /.
and the students, as officers in the
Medical Administrative Corps. will
( be part of the War Department
Reserve officer pool.
Must Serve as Internes.
They will be DISCHARGED from the
Reserve Corps and again be subject
TO the provisions of the Selective
Service Ac- if they fail to complete
their medical studies, or If they
fail to secure an appointment in the
Medical Corps Reserve within one
year of the completion of the pre-
scribed four-year course of medi-
cine
No Medical Reserve officer is con-
sidered eligible for extended active
duty until he shall have completed
at least one year of post-gradu-
ate hospital internship. Therefore,
members of this years graduating
class who are appointed in the Med
ical Corps Reserve. ether through
medical units of the r. o. T. c. or
under the above described pro-
cedure, will rot be available for ac-
tive duty until July. 1912. Deferment
.of such duty beyond that time will
depend upon the current require
ment for medical officers.
In view of the anticipated annual
demand for approximately 1000 Re-
serve medical officers to replace
those who have completed u
months training and service. it is
doubtful that such deferments will
be possible.