SPECIAL REGULATIONS NO. 43 APPOINTMENT. 17 24. Citizens' training camp eligibility.-Any citizen who has creditably attended the series of three training camps, prescribed by the Citizens' Training Camp Regulations, shall, after undergoing the required physical and practical examination, be eligible for appointment in the Officers' Reserve Corps in the grade of second lieutenant in that branch of the service in which he shall have received the major part of his training, subject to professional examination. 25. Authorization for examination.-No person shall be examined for appointment as reserve officer of the line unless he has a letter from The Adjutant General of the Army or the adjutant of the department in which he lives, or for appointment as reserve officer of the staff unless he has a letter from the head of the staff corps or department concerned authorizing his examination. Such a letter to an applicant will be the acknowledgment of the receipt of his application. The application itself, accompanied by recommendations and other documents of a commendatory or explanatory character, will be inclosed to the department commander, head of staff corps or department, or the president of the board concerned. 26. Channels for applicants from executive departments.-If the applicant is an employee or is under the control of any department of the Government other than the War Department, the application shall be submitted through the head of such department. 27. Documents to be submitted by those having served in Regular Army or National Guard.-If an applicant has served in the Regular Army of the United States, or in any of the Volunteer forces of the United States, or in the Organized Militia or National Guard of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, he shall submit his discharge papers for each term of service; if still in service of any of the organizations named, he shall submit recommendations of his immediate and higher commanders. 28. Graduates of military schools or educational institutions having Regular Army officer on duty.-If an applicant has attended or pursued a regular course of instruction in any military school or college of the United States, or has graduated from any educational institution to which an officer of the Army or Navy has been detailed as superintendent or professor pursuant to law, he shall, if a graduate, be required to 53409-183 present a diploma or certificate of graduation from such military school, college, or educational institution, or, if not a graduate, a certificate showing the amount and character of training, theoretical or practical, satisfactorily completed thereat. 29. Enlisted men, Regular Army and National Guard.-Enlisted men of the Regular Army, both active and retired, and of the National Guard, both active and reserve, if citizens of the United States, are eligible for examination for commissions in the Officers' Reserve Corps. 30. Enlisted members of the National Guard, both active and reserve, may be examined for commissions in the Officers' Reserve Corps and notified of the results of such examinations. They will be held eligible for the commissions for which they shall have been recommended, but such commissions will not be issued to them prior to termination by honorable discharge of their connection with the National Guard. 31. Temporary second lieutenants, Regular Army.-No member of the Officers' Reserve Corps will be commissioned a temporary second lieutenant of the Regular Army in time of peace for purposes of instruction, except those appointed to said Officers' Reserve Corps after pursuing a course at an educational institution in accordance with the provisions of sections 49 and 51, national-defense act. 32. Reexamination for section 37, members of Officers' Reserve Corps.-Officers of the reserve corps appointed under the provisions of section 37, national-defense act, due to qualification under section 23, act of 1903, or otherwise transferred to the reserve corps with physical examination only, shall, on application submitted prior to the expiration of the period of their commissions, be reexamined and found physically qualified as a prerequisite to being recommissioned. 33. Reexamination for disqualified applicants.—An applicant who has once been examined for commission in the Officers' Reserve Corps, and who has been disqualified for any reason, will not be designated for reexamination except by authority of the Secretary of War. In such cases the reexamination under paragraph 48 (d) will be written only. Change of address, gains and losses, reports by department commanders 36 34. Rosters. The Adjutant General shall issue commissions to and keep a register of the qualified applicants. He will issue a printed roster giving name, rank, age, and address of all reserve officers, and such other information as may be desirable. 35. Change of address of reserve officers.--Reserve officers pertaining to sections (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), and (8), (paragraph 1), will report at once any change of address to the heads of the staff corps or departments concerned. Reserve officers pertaining to sections (9), (10), (11), and (12) will report at once any change of address to the adjutant of the military department in which they reside. When reserve officers commissioned in the staff department or corps are regularly assigned to authorized reserve organizations they become a part of the line of the Army, and are, therefore, subject to the control of the department commander and report as in the case of other mobile Army reserve officers. 36. Change of address, gains and losses, reports by department commanders.-At the end of each month department commanders and heads of staff departments or corps will forward to The Adjutant General statements of gains and losses by name, rank, age, and address, and a statement of changes of address or status of members of the Officers' Reserve Corps under their jurisdiction. If a change of residence to another military department is involved, the adjutant of such department will be notified by the adjutant of the department in which the officer formerly resided. After six months' service in the Regular Army. 40 401 37. Rank, period of commission, discharge.-Officers of the Officers' Reserve Corps will rank in the various sections according to grade and to length of service in grade. Commissions will be issued for periods of five years. The date of expiration of each commission (whether on account of five-year limit or on account of age of applicant) will be noted on the commission. When an officer of the Officers' Reserve Corps reaches the age limit fixed for appointment or reappointment in the grade in which commissioned he shall be honorably discharged from the service of the United States unless recommissioned in a higher grade after examination and qualification in the manner prescribed by the President. 38. Rank on entering active duty; promotion.—Members of the Officers' Reserve Corps called to active service under section 38, national-defense act, shall take temporary rank among themselves and in their grades in the organizations to which assigned, according to dates of orders placing them on active service. They may be promoted, in accordance with such rank, to vacancies in volunteer organizations or to temporary vacancies in the Regular Army. The vacancies here referred to are those which occur after the organizations have received their full complements of officers, by assignment from the Officers' Reserve Corps or otherwise. 39. After three or more years' service in a grade.-After having served three or more years in a grade, including at least 90 days' active duty under section 39, national-defense act, and in that grade, a reserve officer will be eligible for examination for appointment in the next higher grade. For the purpose of making the necessary appointments for new organizations that are being created, or to fill vacancies caused by casualties in war, reserve officers ordered into active service under section 38, national-defense act, may be promoted without reference to length of service in the lower grade. (S. R. No. 43, C. No. 1.) 40. After six months' service in the Regular Army.—A reserve officer who has completed six months' service as a temporary second lieutenant under the provisions of section 52, nationaldefense act, approved June 3, 1916, will, at the conclusion of such service, be eligible for examination for appointment as first lieutenant. 401. Regrading of reserve officers.-A reserve officer who has been under observation in a training camp, in a company or SPECIAL REGULATIONS NO. 43 RANK AND PROMOTION-DISCHARGE. 21 other unit, or on duty with a staff corps, and who proves unfit to exercise command in or perform the duties of the rank held, but is found fit to exercise command in or perform the duties of a lower grade, may be allowed to resign his commission and may be reappointed as of the following day in the lower grade for which he may be recommended, provided he is at that time still eligible for such reappointment under the age limitations prescribed in paragraphs 14, 15, and 17. Commanding officers of training camps, divisions, and departments, Coast Artillery district commanders, chiefs of staff corps, and such other commanding officers as may be authorized by the Secretary of War will regrade reserve officers as above. Reserve officers who decline to resign for the purpose of regrading may be treated under Section VI, below. The provisions of this paragraph will not be applied for purposes of discipline or merely to secure the services of a reserve officer in lower rank. They will be used only for the purposes of placing officers in grades according to demonstrated merit and to adjust inequalities arising through haste of organization. As a general rule, an officer demoted will not be retained on the same duty as before such demotion. (S. R. No. 43, C. No. 3.) 41. Board to investigate misconduct.-Any member of the Officers' Reserve Corps on active duty who evidences unfitness for his duties by reason of habits, conduct, lack of character, or inefficiency will be promptly reported to his commanding officer, who will convene a board of not less than three nor more than five officers, superior in rank to the officer whose qualifications are to be inquired into, to determine the correctness of the report and submit recommendations. If the reserve officer is not on active duty, the report will be made to the department commander by any officer cognizant of the facts. (S. R. No. 43, C. No. 5.) 42. Action on finding of board.-Any officer of the Officers' Reserve Corps found guilty of misconduct, or who evidences unfitness for the service, will, on the approved finding of the board, be discharged. |