Evening star., 1942-01-25
Rush for EnIisfments
Fills All Shore Jobs
In Naval Reserve
Specially Trained Mer
Needed, However, for
Ship, Outpost Service

Men seeking enlistment or COM
missioning in the United States
Naval Reserve in a specialist ca
pacity, which insures practically that
they will remain on shore for the
duty for which enlisted, will not in
the future find much encouragement
when they visit the local Reserve
recruiting headquarters. According
to officers, about all of the billets
have been filled in the rush which
followed the Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor, and hundreds more
are daily seeking to get into this
service.
What Is more needed now, it was
asserted, is men for service either
aboard ship or at the stations and
outposts of the Navy. 1t was added
that while men with special train
ing Of kind which the Navy can
use will be enlisted into the Naval
Reserve. they will be Immediately
sent into the training station dis
tributing pools, from which men are
selected for the general conbatant
service.
Among this class, 1t was said, are
yeomen, which Is the naval clerk
and stenographer rating, and for
storekeepers, the latter the aides
to the Supply Corps officers in the
distribution Of supplies at the sta
ton and aboard ships to which they
are attached. The men who now
are taken into this class will be sent
to the schools for yeomen and store
keepers maintained by the Navy
and, after a course of instruction
into naval procedure, will be dis
tributed to the ships and outpost
stations.
100 Will Be Selected.
Members of the Naval Academy
Candidate Division at the local Re-
serve now have less than three
months of study in order to be pre-
pared for the tests which will de-
termine whether they will be among
the 100 enlisted men who will be
selected from the Naval Reserve
this year to enter the Naval Acad-
emy July /. Those who go to the
Academy this year have already the
background of eight weeks of train
ing as enlisted men at the Naval
Training Station.
In order to comply with the statute
and the regulations governing ad-
mittance of men to the naval school
through the Reserve, candidates
must serve one full year, which
means that they must be enlisted by
June 80 next for the i943 entrance.
Men contemplating seeking this Ca
reer should file their applications
early in order that the paper work
can be carried on in time to permit
enlistment within the specified time
Soon after the 1st of July those
who enlist will be ordered to one
of the naval training stations for
an eight-week course, after which
they will be returned to the in
active list with the requirement
that they attend some preparatory
school at their own expense to make
ready for the competitive tests.
Those who cannot afford to pay the
school cost, it was pointed out,
should not attempt to get into the
group. If they enlist and then find
out that they cannot attend the
schools they will be kept In the Re-
serve and sent to duty aboard ships
or at shore stations as seamen, sec
ond class.
Supply Officers Sought.
Men who comply with all ether
requirements and then fail to pass
competitive tests or do not receive
an appointment will not be released
from their enlistments, but will be
ordered to the inactive list for as
signment to duty as seamen, second
class. They may, however. try for
appointment to Annapolis. If q
man fails and it is believed that
he has a reasonable chance Of
passing another test, and being be-
low the maximum age limit for en-
trance to the Academy, he will be
given another opportunity.
The Naval Reserve headquarters
is seeking $50 young men with col
lege education for appointment as
ensigns in the Supply Corps. Can
didates now are being interviewed
by officers in the Administration
Building at the Washington Navy
Yard.
Those who are found qualified
will be commissioned In April or
May. In June they will be ordered
to one Of the Navy's schools for
supply officers for instruction, and
If they pass will be sent to duty.
During this school period they will
be on probation.
Candidates must be between the
ages Of Il and 26h years and must
have degrees from accredited coll
leges, either bachelor Of science,
bachelor Of arts or bachelor Of COM
mercial science or better.