report of the physical examination made when the officer was ordered to duty. The examination upon relief from duty will be completed in all respects and reported to The Adjutant General. All physical disqualifications or defects found on such examination will be fully reported. In case any of them were noted on the report of the physical examination made when the officer was called to duty, the report of the board will indicate whether there appears to have been any change therein since that examination. If any of the physical disqualifications or defects found on the former examination are not found when the officer is examined upon his relief, the report of the board will affirmatively set forth that fact.

12. Waiver of physical examination.-The physical examination upon reporting for duty, as hereinabove prescribed, may be waived by The Adjutant General in the case of an officer who is to be on duty not more than 30 days. The physical examination on relief from duty may also be waived when the officer, at the time of relief, has been on duty not more than 30 days.

APPOINTMENT TO THE OFFICERS' RESERVE CORPS IN
THE LINE AND IN STAFF CORPS OR DEPARTMENTS.

Equivalent courses under act of June 3, 1916.
Citizens' training camp eligibility--.

Authorization for examination___.

Channels for applicants from executive departments----
Documents to be submitted by those having served in
Regular Army or National Guard____

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Graduates of military schools or educational institutions having Regular Army officer on duty-----

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Enlisted men, Regular Army and National Guard______ 29-30

Temporary second lieutenants, Regular Army----Reexamination for section 37, members of Officers' Reserve Corps --.

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Reexamination for disqualified applicants-

13. Eligibility requirements.-No applicant will be examined who is an officer of the Regular Army on the active list or who is not a citizen of the United States, or who is an applicant for appointment as second lieutenant in the Regular Army, unless and until it is definitely known that he has failed in the examination for such appointment and will not be commissioned in the Regular Army. Officers of the National Guard, both active and reserve, may be examined, provided their application for examination is approved by the governor of the State or Territory or by the commanding general, District of Columbia. They can not be commissioned as officers of the Officers' Reserve Corps until receipt of evidence of their separation from the National Guard.

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14. Age limits.-No applicant will be examined for commission in the Officers' Reserve Corps if it appears that, due to the age limits, he will have less than one year to serve in the grade which he seeks.

15. Except as noted in paragraph 17, no applicant will be examined who is less than 21 years of age or who, being an applicant for commission as second lieutenant, shall be more than 32; as first lieutenant, more than 36; as captain, more than 40; or as major, more than 45; except that all persons now carried as duly qualified and registered by The Adjutant General for appointment as officers of Volunteers under the act of January 21, 1903, shall until June 3, 1919, be eligible for appointment in the Officers' Reserve Corps in the section corresponding to the arm, corps, or department for which they have been found qualified without further examination, except a physical examination, and subject to the limitations as to age and rank prescribed.

16. Those qualified and registered previous to the act of June 3, 1916.-Any person carried on June 3, 1916, as qualified and registered in the grade of colonel or lieutenant colonel, pursuant to the provisions of said act, may be commissioned and recommissioned in the Officers' Reserve Corps with the rank for which he has been found qualified and registered; and in case persons have been previously listed as eligible for more than one arm, corps, or department, they will elect which section of the Officers' Reserve Corps they desire to be commissioned in, and will be commissioned only in that one.

17. Exceptions to age limits.-Age limits prescribed in paragraph 15 do not apply to applicants for appointment or reappointment as officers of the Quartermaster, Engineer, Ordnance, Signal, Judge Advocate, and Medical Department sections of said reserve corps. In the case of applicants for appointment or reappointment as reserve officers in corps or departments where no age limit applies, special aptitude, qualifications, and physical fitness for special service in the corps or department concerned must be shown in every case where applicant is over 60 years of age.

18. Examination for particular grades.—On or before appearing before a board and prior to entering upon examination an applicant for a commission in the Officers' Reserve Corps who believes himself qualified for a grade higher than the lowest in the arm, corps, or department in which he desires to serve will

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consult with the examining board with a view to determining what examination he is to undertake. The decision of the board will be final, but the board is authorized, at the completion of such examination, to recommend the applicant for such lower grade as it deems proper, regardless of the particular examination undertaken.

19. Qualification for particular grade.-An applicant will apply for a commission in the arm or staff corps or department in which he desires to serve, without specifying the grade. The grade for which a successful applicant is qualified will be determined by the War Department on the record. The examining board will inform the applicant as to the grade for which the board has recommended him, and, before the examination report is forwarded, he will be given an opportunity to sign a statement on said report to the following effect: "I hereby signify my willingness to accept a commission in the Officers' Reserve Corps in the grade recommended by the examining board." If the applicant does not subscribe to the above statement, the examination will be deemed incomplete and the examination report will be disposed of as is prescribed for examination papers in paragraph 48 (e). If higher authority finds it necessary to recommend the applicant for a grade lower than that recommended by the board, such authority will so inform the applicant by letter, and the appointment will not be made unless and until the applicant has signified, by indorsement on said letter, his willingness to accept appointment in the lower grade.

20. Disposition of examination reports.-If the applicant is recommended for appointment and subscribes to the statement that he is willing to accept appointment in the grade for which he has been recommended, the completed report will be forwarded to the convening authority. If the convening authority concurs in the board's recommendation as to appointment and grade, he will forward the report to The Adjutant General of the Army. If he intends to recommend appointment in a lower grade, he will hold the report until the applicant has had opportunity to reply to the letter of notification mentioned in paragraph 19. If the applicant signifies his willingness to accept appointment in the lower grade, the report, with applicant's statement, will be forwarded to The Adjutant General of the Army; otherwise action will be taken as indicated in the next following paragraph.

If the examination, or examination report, is incomplete because the examination was terminated at some stage in the discretion of the board under paragraph 48, or because the applicant is not recommended for appointment, or because the applicant has not signified his willingness to accept appointment in the grade for which he has been recommended, the report, completed only to show the stage reached, will be held by the president of the board, or by the convening authority, if it has reached him. A letter will be forwarded to The Adjutant General of the Army stating: "The examination of (name and address), for appointment in the (arm or corps), Officers' Reserve Corps, was begun (date) by a board convened by (order). The examination is incomplete for the reason that (state which of three reasons as given above)." The report itself will be retained 60 days and will then be destroyed, unless in the meantime it is called for by higher authority.

21. Relative rank on examination.-When two or more applicants for a commission in the Officers' Reserve Corps are examined at the same time, before the same board, and are found qualified for the same grade, the board will, in a separate letter, arrange and recommend such applicants in the relative order in which, in the judgment of the board, commissions should be issued.

22. Reserve Officers' Training Corps appointments.-The appointment of graduates of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps to be officers of the Officers' Reserve Corps, as authorized by section 49, national-defense act, is governed by its Reserve Officers' Training Corps Regulations.

23. Equivalent courses under act of June 3, 1916.-Any male citizen of the United States between the ages of 21 and 27 years who shall have graduated prior to June 3, 1916, from any educational institution at which an officer of the Army was detailed as professor of military science and tactics, and who, while a student at such institution, completed courses of military training under the direction of such professor of military science and tactics substantially equivalent to those prescribed pursuant to the act of June 3, 1916, for the senior division, shall, after satisfactorily completing the additional practical military training prescribed by the Reserve Officers' Training Corps Regulations, be eligible after physical examination for appointment to the Officers' Reserve Corps.