ROTC Enables a Man to Earn a Commission at the Same Time He Earns an Academic Degree in a Field of His Choice
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Information About the Draft Classification of College Students ARMY The Draft versus Enlistment How To Become An Officer Officer Candidate School Training Women In The Army MARINE CORPS Marine Corps Enlistments General Requirements for Officer Training The Woman Marine NAVY Navy Enlistments Navy Officer Programs Women In The Navy AIR FORCE Air Force Enlistments Air Force Officer Programs Women In The Air Force MISCELLANEOUS Comparative Grades — Armed Services Letter to Students Leaving School to Enlist Military Pay Chart Bibliography of Materials on Hand PREFACE To many students today, the thought of military service of any kind may be both frustrating and frightening. Frightening because of the constant and perhaps inescapable threat of the draft, and frustrating to the extent that once drafted they must submit to military discipline after several years of unprecedented freedom in their speech, actions, and dress. Many of these young people never venture beyond the stage of attempting to keep one step ahead of their draft boards. Others, however, desire to know more about this dragon 'Military Service" but refuse to approach military personnel for the information they want and need. As a result many students have been turning to the University College staff for help. For the most part these students desire: 1. Information concerning the details of their draft service. 2. Information on the advantages of enlisting aa opposed to being drafted. 3. Information on opportunities while in the service. 4. Information on one service as opposed to another. In addition, there are also students who, because they are not doing well academically, or because they want to complete their military obligation, desire to enter a branch or arm of the service which may augment their academic programs. Still others are interested in the possibilities of continuing to work toward a degree while in the service, and some few ask concerning the career possibilities of one of the services. The information compiled here was not intended to make recruiting areas of the University College offices. It is, however, designed to assist the students by enabling those Assistant Deans, Directors, and Academic Advisors to answer questions put to them by students in the course of their academic counseling. 1 These materials were current as of July 1, 1968. However, specific programs and specific qualifications sometimes change as the result of legislation or needs of the services. Should a student indicate an interest in any program, it would be wise to send him on to a Recruiting Office for the most recent requirements. NOTE: Legally a student, even though he has orders to report for induction, nay enlist up to the day before he is to report. However, the services other than the Army now have waiting lists, and he may find that the Amy will draft him if he delays bis enlistment too long. IMPORTANT: Some students have minor offenses on their records. (Petty larceny, etc.) On any form they must complete, tell them not to lie. If they are applying for OCS or a sensitive area position, their background will be checked. If they are honest and the infringement is a minor one, a waiver board will most times rule in their favor. R. J. Coelho ii INFORMATION ABOUT THE DRAFT The 2-S classification which a student receives does NOT automatically protect him from being drafted permanently. It simply means that he is 2-S In priority for the draft from a particular draft board. In other words, if all priorities before 2-S are drafted and his Draft Board needs more men, they may well re-classify him Into l-A and draft him. Due to the autonomy and methods of interpretation by Local Draft Boards, it is almost impossible to predict what a student's draft board back home will do. His best bet is to check personally or have someone else check with his home-town board on matters pertinent to himself and his particular situation. Draft Board quotas are assigned on a percentage of population basis. Some areas controlled by certain draft boards may have fewer men available. This simply means that there is a possibility that the boards in these areas will work through their other priorities and reach the 2-S group more quickly. This group might then be reclassified l-A and drafted. Urge all men registered for the draft to read the back of their draft card and follow the instructions. "Current address" means just what it says—the address NOW. Give a residence hall address if that's where you are living. Failure to comply with any of these instructions is sufficient grounds for reclassification. The classification which a student receives is a tgrm-by-term classification. However, with any appreciable escalation in the call-up, any classification might easily become a day-by-day classification. The 2-S classification is only a statuatory exemption for four years after initial admission to a degree granting institution. Thus a student who starts to school and drops out for a term or a year, has his 2-S exemption dated for four years beginning when he first started. A recent ruling indicates that a man cannot have both a 2-S and a marriage deferment, and that there seems to be a tightening up on those students who are going on for graduate work. However, preference is given those students doing graduate work in the health fields - doctors, etc. Based on Item 6 above, many boards will then figure the number of credits required by the institution for graduation and divide those credits by the normal number of terms or semesters the student would attend in four years. The resultant figure is the load they would figure a student needs to carry to be considered a full time student. (Ex. MSU requires 180 credits for graduation. Normal terms in attendance for four years - 12. 180 divided by 12 • 15 credits. Number considered by many, many draft boards as a full-time" load). CLASSIFICATION OF COLLEGE STUDENTS under the Military Selective Service Act of 1967 The following communication has been received from the Michigan Selective Service headquarters and is reproduced here for the information of all concerned. College student deferments under the Military Selective Service Act of 1967 may be granted only when the Local Board receives adequate information from the registrant justifying such deferment. The registrant is responsible for keeping his Local Board informed of his student status and supplying the required certification of enrollment at the beginning of each college year or at any other time that there may be a change of status. Student deferments are limited to one year and may be reopened at any time that the basis for deferment changes. Registrants deferred as students after July 1, 1967 may not later be deferred as fathers. Also, registrants deferred as students may later, if other wise available, be integrated into the age group for selection at such time as induction calls are placed upon a designated age group. All deferred students have their liability for service extended to age 35. Undergraduates — Undergraduate college students satisfactorily pursuing a full-time course of instruction and making proportionate progress each academic year may be deferred until they receive their baccalaureate degree, cease to perform satisfactorily, or attain age 24, whichever is the earliest. To qualify for student deferment in Class II-S, the student must request deferment in writing. This request may be submitted on Selective Service Form 104, which may be obtained from any Local Board. In addition, the student must have his college provide an annual certification of his student status at the beginning of each school year and at any other time that his status changes. This certification will be provided on SSS Form 109, or a similar document. An undergraduate college student who is ordered to report for induction while satisfactorily pursuing a full-time course of study at a college or university may be eligible for postponement of induction and deferment in Class I-S(C) until the end of his academic year. The I-S(C) classification may be granted only once. Graduate students are not eligible. Graduate Students — After October 1, 1967, only graduate students in medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, osteopathy or optometry, or in other critical fields designated by the Director of Selective Service will be deferred in Class II-S. Such deferments may be continued on an annual basis so long as the registrant is satisfactorily pursuing studies leading to his graduate or professional degree, based upon annual certification of satisfactory status by the college concerned on SSS Form 103 or its equivalent. Students entering graduate school for the first time by October 1967, may be deferred for one year. Graduate students entering their second or later year of graduate work by October 1967, may be deferred for one year to earn a master's degree or not to exceed a total of five years to earn a doctorate or professional degree. Graduate students must arrange for certification of their status at the beginning of each school year. The Office of the Registrar upon receipt of a signed request on a Selective Service Information Card, available at Fall term registration in the Men's Intramural Building or Room 113 Administration Building, will certify a registrant's student status to the Selective Service System. ARMY THE DRAFT VERSUS ENLISTMENT 1. STUDENT WHO IS DRAFTED. A student who is drafted is drafted for two years. At the time he is drafted he may ask about and will probably be tested for Officer's Candidate School (OCS) at the reception center, or he may make application at his first duty station.