The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-03-11
ExpIoins in Detail
Stonding of College
Men in Armed Forces

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serve program. with the exception
of certain students in definite sci
entific and engineering fields, will
be called to active duty in the Army
after the completion of the current
4 semester or quarter, according to a
War Department announcement.
The Enlisted Reservists then will
. be sent TO replacement training CEN
ters and screened TO determine their
qualifications for the Army Spe-
cialized Training program. If Sc
lected, they will be assigned to an
appropriate institution for such
training.
! The War Department has an
nounced that all college and uni
versities, such as Montana State
University, which have maintained
units of the Reserve Officer Train
ing Corps in the past will be util-
lied for such training.
] Normally, Enlisted Reserve Cores
students will be ordered to active
duty after the completion of the
first quarter terminating after De-
cember 81, 1912, or as soon there
after as practicable, with due re-
gard to the avoidance of congestion
in reception centers. Students will
be given at least two weeks after
the quarter ends before they have
to report for duty Winter quarter,
the corresponding period of Mon
tana State University, ends
March Is.
II an enlistee is enrolled as
full-time college student at the time
he reaches his 18th bidthday, be
will not be called to active duty
until the close of the quarter IN
which he is currently enrolled, or
six months after reaching the age.
of 18, whichever is earlier II an
Enlisted Reservist in high school,
who becomes l8 years of age, is or
dered to report for active duty dur
ing the last half of the academic
year, he shall, upon request, have
his effective date of active duty
postponed until the end of the aca-
demic year.
] Enlisted Reservists who will be
given special exception from the
current ruling on calls for active
duty include: medical, pre-medisal,
dental, veterinary students, aero-
nautical engineers, automotive en-
gineers, chemical engineers, civil
engineers, electrical engineers,
heating, ventilating, refrigerating
andhA conditioning engineers. me-
chant ngineers, radio engineers,
chemists, Amathematicians, meter
ologists, physicists, including astron-
j omers and psychologists.
Medical, pre-medical, dental and
veterinary students in the Enlisted
Reserve corps will be called to &C.
tive duty at the end of the present
quarter. Medical students will be
detailed TO continue courses of med
ical instruction with medical schools
selected by the War department.
Medical students who have been
commissioned in the Medical Adj
ministrative corps may resign such
commissions, enlist as privates, and
be detailed in the manner as medi-
cal students in the Enlisted Re
serve.
Pre-medical students will be Sc
lected at induction or at the COM
pletion of their basic military
training for further medical train
ing and will be detailed for such in
struction under the Army Special
lied Training program.
Medical and pre-medical students
not in the Enlisted Reserve, taking
approved courses, if indicted under
selective service before the end of
the present quarter, will be placed
on inactive duty to continue SUCH
courses until the end of the quar-
ter. At that time, they will be
called to active duty and may be
detailed for further medical train
ing under the Army Specialized
Training program or assigned to
other military duty.
Students in the Enlisted Reserve
corps who are pursuing approved
technical engineering courses, will
continue in an inactive status until
the completion of the present quar-
ter. They then will be called to
active duty. The Army includes UNI
der such technical engineering
courses training in the fields of
chemistry, mathematics, meterology,
physics, and psychology. Those Sc
lected at the completion of their