CHAPTER XL. RESERVE CORPS. Par. Officers' Reserve Corps____ 1532-1552 Composition and object of_____ 1532 Appointments in Officers' Re serve Corps and National of Regular Army, Volunteer Par. --- 1532a 1533 1533а Age limit for appointment in and discharge of officers after having passed such limit____ 1537 No discharge of officers on reaching age limit during existing emergency.... Same-Not to apply to appointment or reappointment of officers in certain staff departments. Medical Reserve Corps to cease to exist one year after passage of act; officers of may be appointed to Officers' Re serve Corps‒‒‒‒ Certain officers of the medical section, Officers' Reserve Corps, may be assigned to active duty in time of peace; pay of_____‒‒‒ 1537a 1538 1539 1540 1535 1536 1569 1570 of institutions giving military training to Officers' Reserve Corps and as temporary additional second lieutenants; age limit, citizenship, etc‒‒‒‒‒‒ Appointment by President alone of reserve officers as temporary second lieutenants of Regular Army in time of peace for instruction___. Reserve officers and temporary second lieutenants not entitled to retirement or retired pay; pensionable status______ 1571 In time of war reserve officers may be assigned to active duty in any grades, not below second lieutenant, and are subject to rules and articles of war. Adjutant General to keep revised list of civilians who have had military training qualifying them for appointment as commissioned officers_ Camps of instruction for training civilians, equipment, etc., of 1572 1573 1574 Same-Rate of mileage for civilians attending, time of payment---- 1585 1574a Pay of civilians designated for training as officers during period of training_ Same-Secretary of War to pre 1574b Same Periods of active service 1532. Composition and object of.--For the purpose of securing a reserve of officers available for service as temporary officers in the Regular Army, as provided for in this Act and in section eight of the Act approved April twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and fourteen,' as officers of the Quartermaster Corps and other staff corps and departments, as officers for recruit rendezvous and depots, and as ollicers of volunteers, there shall be organized, under such rules and regulations as the President may prescribe not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, an Officers' Reserve Corps of the Regular Army. Said corps shall consist of sections corresponding to the various arms, staff corps, and departments of the Regular Army.2 Held, that there are no organizational grades in the Veterinary Corps nor in the Dental Corps and that, therefore, veterinarians can be appointed in the Officers' Reserve Corps only as assistant veterinarians with the rank of second lieutenant, and dental surgeons may be appointed therein only as first lieutenant, and that in neither case can the officer attain a higher rank except through active service for the time prescribed for the attainment of higher rank. Held further, that as to the Medical Department, the three corps, Medical, Dental, and Veterinary, are to be regarded as separate and distinct corps for the purpose of determining the proportionate number of officers to be commissioned in the Officers' Reserve Corps; and that the proportion of the grades in the Medical Section proper of the Officers' Reserve Corps should be determined by the proportion which the number in the corresponding grades in the Medical Corps of the Regular Army bear to the total number of officers in the Medical Corps of the Regular Army, the grades of captain and first lieutenant in the Medical Corps of the Regular Army being considered one grade, that of first lieutenant, in making the computation; and that the appointments to the dental and veterinary sections of the Officers' Reserve Corps, being only to the lowest in each, will be unlimited in that grade. Held further art for purposes of appointment in the Officers' Reserve Corps the lowest natisorized grade in the Quartermaster Corps is that of captain, to which grade in the Officers' Reserve Corps appointments may be unlimited. Held further, that the Signal Corps proper and the Aviation Section each constitutes a corps which should form the basis of an organization in the Offi Except as otherwise herein provided, a member of the Officers' Reserve Corps shall not be subject to call for service in time of peace, and whenever called upon for service shall not, without his consent, be so called in a lower grade than that held by him in said. reserve corps. Sec. 37, Act of June 3, 1916 (39 Stat. 189). 1532a. Appointments in Officers' Reserve Corps and National Army to certain grades in designated staff corps.-During the existing emergency the President is authorized, in addition to the grades now authorized, to appoint in the Officers' Reserve Corps and the National Army in the grades of second and first lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps; second lieutenant in the Ordnance Corps and Signal Corps; second lieutenant, first lieutenant, and captain in The Adjutant General's Department, such citizens as shall be found physically, mentally, and morally qualified for appointment. Act of Oct. 6, 1917 (40 Stat. 393). (For the ensuing provision of this act see paragraph 1537a, post.) 1533. President alone authorized to appoint and commission officers in all grades up to and including major.-The President alone shall be authorized to appoint and commission as reserve officers in the various sections of the Officers' Reserve Corps, in all grades up to and including that of major, such citizens as, upon examination prescribed by the President, shall be found physically, mentally, and morally qualified to hold such commissions. Sec. 37, Act of June 3, 1916 (39 Stat. 189). 1533a. Appointment of former officers of Regular Army, Volunteer Army, Organized Militia, or National Guard to.-Any former officer of the Regular Army, the Volunteer Army, the Organized Militia, or the National Guard, under the age of sixty-four years and who has resigned or been honorably discharged from the service after a total commissioned service of not less than three years in either the Regular Army, the Volunteer Army, the Organized Militia, or the National Guard, may, upon such examination and within such age limits as may be prescribed by the President, be appointed and commissioned, in the discretion of the President, in any appropriate arm, staff corps, department or section of the Officers' Reserve Corps, with rank not more than one grade higher than any previously held by the officer in either of said forces, but cers' Reserve Corps, the lowest grade in the Signal Corps being that of first lieutenant. As to the Aviation Section, held, that the grade of aviator, provided for in sec. 13 of the national-defense act, was created as a means of meeting contingencies and supplying casual deficiencies, and should be regarded as temporary and not as a permanent grade or integral part of the Aviation Section, such as should be made a basis for appointments in the Officers' Reserve Corps but the lowest grade of the Aviation Section in which an unlimited number of oflicers may be appointed is that of first lieutenant. (War Dept. Bull. 31, Sept. 12, 1916.) |