Evening star., 1942-03-01
Naval Reservists
Gef Instructions
For Annapolis
Civil Service to Hold
Competitive Examination;
Start AII-Out System

Although manual drill work Is be-
ing kept up to some extent for the
candidates for appointment to the
United States Naval Academy
through the local Reserve, the ON
GERS now are giving them instruc-
ton in the organization and make
up of the establishment in which
they hope to become officers. While
the competitive examination date is
fast approaching, the subjects which
they are receiving during the reg
ular drills will not help them in
passing these tests, but will serve to
put them away ahead in their naval
work when and If they are successful
In reaching the academy. All OF
them are attending local prepara-
tory schools to get ready for the en-
trance examinations conducted by
the Civil Service Commission for
the naval school.
Brief periods of general military
drill and the Butts Manual are being
given. Considerable attention also
is being given to visual signaling,
and particularly at this time the
vari-colored signal flags used in tao
tical operations of the fleets, as 1t Is
expected that the men will put this
promptly to use in their small boat
maneuvers when they reach the
naval school. --
For those who fail to pass and who
must return to active duty as en-
listed men, they may find that the
special instruction has fitted them
for more rapid promotion in the sig
nal force of the ships to which they
might be assigned,
The personnel Of the officer and
specialist divisions also is being in
creased by the assignment OF addi-
tional men for instruction. These
classes are made up Of men who
have Just Joined the naval establish
ment from civil life, and who do not
have the rudimentary knowledge
In particular, the specialist branch
of enlisted men is being taught Gus
toms and procedure, and some drill
work to give them the proper nava
bearing.
The officers, for the most part, are
SPECIALISTS taken in for particular
land duties, and are not eligible FOL
combatant service because they have
had no training in this branch OF the
Navy, but 1t was believed to be nee
essary to give them some strictly
naval instruction.
Seek verile Collegemen.
The Navy has started an all-out
system of getting the ranks OF the
officers and enlisted men filled sew
eral years hence with verile college
men. Instruction which will be pro-
vided for them included a rigid
physical training. Under the new
plan 10000 young collegemen will
be enlisted in the United States
Naval Reserve and left on an in
active status to finish a whole OF
part of their college training. Some
of them will be taken after two
years of college and others will be
allowed to remain until they have
obtained their degrees, the Navy
Department to make the selection
as to who stays and who goes or
active duty.
Those who have completed high
school and who enter college viii
be given the opportunity OF enlistins
as soon as they start their colleg
course. They must be between thu
ages of II and 19 and will he en-
listed as apprentice seamen. Aftel
two years of college all of thost
who enlist will be examined phys
ically as well as educationally ane
those who have developed suff1clen
physical stamina. will be ordered
to naval air training stations to be
come Naval Reserve flyers. Tht
will require about 5000 men eacf
year. The others will remain TO
a period, some until they have Oh
tanned their degrees, if they shov
the proper aptitude for the nava
service, and then will be ordere'
to the VT officer training schools
where after three months of addi
tional instruction they will be mad
ensigns in the Naval Reserve eithe
for deck or engineering duty, if the
pass the school tests successfully
This group will take about 1900
men a year. For the other $500
there will be sea service as enlistet
men. If it is found that they wi
not make officer materiel they wi
be allowed to remain through thei
sophomore year when they will b
ordered to active duty with the flee
as enlisted men.
1t was announced at the locs
Reserve headquarters that applica
tions are still being received fror
men with college degrees to enro
them in the classes for VT, wher
they will attend school, and becom
Naval Reserve ensigns for surfac
ship operation upon completion. {
the naval instruction course. Onl