THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1942
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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NOW_FOR COLLEGE MEN_A NEW OFFICERS' TRAINING PLAN
- New Deferred Service Plan Allows You to Continue Your Education
--will be interested in the requirements for Armaments, Communications, Engineering Meteorology, Photography. If you have engineering experience your chances of getting a commission are excellent.
In the skies over America the mightiest air fleet in the history of the world is mobilizing for victory!
So fast is it growing that there is a place here—an urgent need here—for every college man in America who can qualify for Officer's Training.
MANY BRANCHES OF SERVICE
The U. S. Army Air Forces need Flying Officers and Ground Crew Officers. And many of them must come from the ranks of today's college students - men who make their plans now for the necessary Aviation Cadet training.
There are also commissions awarded in ground crew service. College men particularly
In 8 months you can win an officer's commission as a bombardier, navigator or pilot and be well started on your way to serve America and advance yourself in aviation.
$75 A MONTH DURING TRAINING
Those accepted who wish immediate duty will go into training as rapidly as facilities permit. As an Aviation Cadet, you are paid $75 a month, with subsistence, quarters, medical care, uniforms, equipment, traveling expenses.
You must meet the requirements for physical fitness, of course. In addition, you take a new simplified test to determine your ability to grasp the training. A college man should pass it easily.
Thanks to a newly created Air Force Reserve plan, men of all classes-aged 18 to 26 inclusive can enlist for immediate service or continue the scholastic work required for graduation before being called to active duty.
--will be interested in the requirements for Armaments, Communications, Engineering Meteorology, Photography. If you have engineering experience your chances of getting a commission are excellent.
THREE ENLISTMENT PLANS FOR COLLEGE MEN
Juniors—Sophomores—Freshmen May Continue Their Education
1. A new plan allows Juniors, Sophomores and Freshmen, aged 18 to 26, inclusive, to enlist in the Air Force Enlisted Reserve and continue their schooling, provided they maintain satisfactory scholastic standings.
All College Men May Enlist for Immediate Service
2. All college students may enlist as privates in the Army Air Forces (unassigned) and serve there until their turns come for Aviation Cadet training.
Upon graduation or withdrawal from college, men will be assigned to active duty at a training center as facilities become available.
3. All college students may enlist in the Air Force Enlisted Reserve and wait until they are ordered to report for Aviation Cadet training.
If the necessity of war demands, the deferred status in the Army Reserve may be terminated at any time by the Secretary of War.
The new Army Air Force Reserve Plan is part of an overall Military Battledore Reserve Corps program shortly to be acquired. The program will provide opportunities for college men to enter in other branches of the Army on a deferred basis and to continue their education through graduation if a satisfactory standard of work is maintained. In case of necessity the Secretary of War shall determine when they may be called to active duty.
It is understood that men so enlisted will have the opportunity of competing for vacancies in officer's candidate schools.
This plan has been approved in the belief that continuation of education will develop capacities for leadership. (Reserve enrollment will not apply to offerings regarding established R.O.T.C. plans.)
This past year about 80% of all Aviation Gadets were commissioned as Second Lieutenants—about 67% as flying officers. Those who do not qualify remain in the Air Forces on an enlisted status and have further opportunities.
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As a Second Lieutenant on active duty with the Army Air Forces, your pay ranges from $183 to $245 a month.
ACT AT ONCE
If you want to fight for America, this is where your blows will count.
If you want the best training in the world, and years of solid achievement in aviation—the great career field of the future—this is where you belong. Your place is here—in the Army Air Forces.
If you plan to enlist immediately, start getting your necessary papers ready for the Aviation Cadet Examining Board when it meets in your locality. For complete information, see your Faculty Air Force Advisor. You can take your mental and physical examinations the same day you apply. Get further information now.
NOTE: If you wish to enlist and are under 21, you will need your parents' or guardian's consent. Birth
certificates and three letters of recommendation will be required of all applicants. Obtain the forms and send them home today—you can then complete your enlistment before any Aviation Cadet Examining Board.
SEE YOUR FACULTY AIR FORCE ADVISOR FOR FULL INFORMATION
(Or Apply to Your Local Recruiting and Induction Station)
ARMY RECRUTING AND INDUCTION STATIONS ARE IN THE FOLLOWING CITIES:
Kansas City Fort Scott Salina Topeka Wichita
AVIATION CADET EXAMINING BOARDS ARE LOCATED IN THE FOLLOWING CITIES:
Fort Leavenworth Fort Riley Kansas City
THE SPECIAL EXAMINING BOARD WILL VISIT UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SOO!
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