Evening star., 1942-03-15
Naval Reserve Units
Move Headquarters
From Navy Yard
Air Service Seeks Men
For Special Training;
5000 to Go Monthly

The officer procurement activities
Of the local Naval Reserve, which
have been carried on at the Wash
ington Navy Yard since the local
battalion was ordered to active duty,
have been transferred to the down.
town section. The drilling activities
of the three divisions will be con-
tinued at the Washington yard in
the old armory building. The groups
are the Naval Academy candidate
division, the enlisted mems special
ist division and the officers division,
the latter including a number who
have entered the service from civil
life largely for specialist and ad-
ministrative duties and who have
received none of the naval training.
New quarters for the procurement
division have been established on
the third floor of the City Club
Building at 1920 G street NV. The
move was made last Tuesday, and
on Wednesday many men sought to
learn if there were possibilities for
them to obtain commissions in the
Naval Reserve Naval and Naval
Reserve officers are on duty to inter-
view each applicant.
For the most part the service is
In need of men with engineering
education, and those without 1t
should have some mathematics in
their college credits which they sub
nit for examination of the appoint
ment officials. There are some few
classes which do not require full
college courses, such as the air serv-
ice, where men are much needed
for training as flyers.
A new class of officers Is being
recruited for the air service, opened
to college and non-college men. The
Navy is attempting to recruit men
for training as officers and to be
assigned to air posts to relieve fly
ers now engaged on ground work.
Air Corps Officers.
The new ones to be used as Air
Corps administrative officers must
be between the ages of % and AZ
years. Those with some training as
executives in various business lines
are desired. They will be sent to q
school being established at QuonSet
Point, R. I. They will be given an
eight weeks course, when they will
be commissioned either lieutenants,
Junior grade, or lieutenants. Under
the plan it is proposed to send 5000
men month to the school where
the facilities are being greatly en-
larged. However, the appointments
in this area are being handled by
the United States Naval Reserve Air
Base at Anacostia, D. G.
There was further softening of
the requirements last week for men
desiring to enroll in the VT class
which was originally established for
young college men to become officers
after four months of training at
special schools of the Navy. For
merly it was necessary to have a
college degree, and to have had
some credits in mathematics and
physics to be eligible.
Young men in college in their
Junior and senior years are now
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as seamen apprentice, and will re-
main at college for their gradua-
ton, after which they will face a
three months course at one of the
special Naval Reserve schools, dur
ing which period they will be Naval
Reserve midshipmen with the pay
and allowances of midshipmen at
the United States Naval Academy.
If not sufficient numbers are OBJ
tanned from the senior and junior
classes, the freshmen and sopho-
more classes may be tapped, so that
if the war continues for that long
there will be a steady stream of
young officers coming into the Naval
Reserve service.
A number of the colleges, because
of the demand for educated man
power, are speeding up their courses
like the Naval Academy, and COM
pleting the usual four-year courses
in three years, by the expedient OF
having a semester during the sum-
mer vacation period.