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• Columns • Editorials • News Briefs Cbe Battalion Page 2 College Station, Texas Friday, Afc>ril 1, 1966 • Opinions • Cartoons Feat ure« Military Service: Your Decision With the continuing crisis in Vietnam the draft is eyeing every healthy young man of normal in telligence under 26, and your local draft board, pressed to meet its quota, is taking a second look at its manpower, including many students who are now deferred. You have a six-year active-and- reserve military obligation—so you should be thinking right now of how you can best fulfill it. Where do you stand at the moment? Are you eligible for de ferment? How safe is your de ferred status? What does it mean if you’re drafted? What are the choices if you enlist? How can those six years best serve you’t If You Want To Stay In College Presuming that you are over 18 and have already registered with your draft board, you are liable for the draft until you reach 26—unless you qualify for a specific deferment or unless, of course, you enlist. If you intend to continue your education beyond the age at which you will nor mally be called, it is vitally im portant to know the rules and to plan wisely. By law, all quali fied 19 through 26-year-olds must be called by birth date, oldest first. If you conclude your studies before you are 26, you are not only draftable, but may be first on line. Deferments may be granted for certain physical and mental con ditions established by qualifica tion tests given at Armed Forces examining and entrance stations by military teams working under standards of acceptability pre scribed by the Dept, of Defense, and by your previous medical and school records. Deferments may also be granted to fathers (except physicians, veterinarians, dentists and specialists allied with the healing arts) ; to those in occupa tions considered “essential to the national health, safety or inter est”; and to “full-time, normal progress students” who qualify under Selective Service System rulings. This last category, probably yours, is subject to constant re view. Generally speaking, the 2-S deferment will be given to stu dents who make a good score on the College Qualification Test or rank reasonably high in their class. Even if you are called, law requires your deferment until the end of the academic year. Your chances of being drafted rise if your academic record has slumped or if you switch to part-time studies. If you drop out of college you are a prime candidate for the draft. If you are planning graduate study, your military service can probably be postponed until you complete professional training, depending upon your local draft board. (This is especially true for future doctors, scientists, teach ers, engineers and candidates for other professions currently in short supply.) Deferment for graduate study extends your draft liability until you are 35, but un less the needs of the services escalates considerably, no men over 26—other than medical spe cialists who have completed their studies—are expected to be called. Conscientious objection is de fined by law. Only religious training and religious belief—not personal, political or philosophical views—qualify you for 1-A-O classification (non - combatant duty) or for a 1-0 classification which requires two years of civilian work in a national in terest approved by your draft board. (The Peace Corps and the Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) program are not a substitute for the draft; but you may be deferred for such service.) To assure yourself of the de ferment for which you may be eligible—and to maintain it—ask your college registrar to send your draft board the appropriate certificate to establish your stu dent staus. You must then main tain a reasonably high rank in your class or take the College Qualification Test which will be available this spring. You also have a positive obligation to in form your draft board of tevery change of address or other change whi<ih may affect your draft status within ten days. Remem ber to keep the board advised of your college plans and academic progress. If you are planning a trip, check with your draft board to be sure you won't be ordered for examination or induction dur ing your absence. Failure to keep your draft board informed will only increase your chances of being called. If You’re Drafted The draft means you will enter the Army unless other services fail to meet their manpower quotas (it is sometimes possible for you to request—and qualify for—another branch of service at the time of induction). As a draftee, you are committed to two years of active duty, and four years in the reserve, subject to the regulations of the service con cerned. After you have completed ac tive duty you may be assigned as a Ready Reservist in the Army National Guard or in a nearby Reserve Unit. Ready Reserve duty consists of 48 two-to-four- hour drills a year, plus two weeks of active duty each summer. You are paid for your time, pro-rated at the standard compensation for your rank. In Standby Reserve, after you have completed the necessary duty in the Ready Re serve, no duty is required and no compensaton is paid. In a time of emergency, however, Congress can call you up. Draftees, like volunteers, may apply for Officer Candidate School or other special programs, but may not switch to any plan which requires less active duty or less overall time in the service than their original commitment as draftees. The draft may have merits if you have chosen the Army any way and want to limit your active service to two years. And if you already have special skills your chances for interesting work in you? field are good. But remem ber that employers are reluctant to hire 1-A’s while they are wait ing to be drafted and that as a draftee you normally waive the chance 1) to choose the propor tions of active to reserve status, 2) to gain some valuable special ized training and 3) to see the world. If You Enlist All the services—Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guards—offer a variety of longer-term programs to those who volunteer. But if your draft board taps you first, you may miss out on these options. It’s to your advantage, therefore, to survey the field ahead of time and to decide, while the choice is still yours, if any of these voluntary plans might suit your purposes better than the draft. Begin your research with “It’s Your Choice,” a booklet published by the Department of Defense. Your faculty adviser can get one free by writing to “It’s Y our Choice,” Washington, D. C. 20301. It gives a brief summary of the programs offered by each service. Next, you should visit the local recruiting station of the service you prefer; you’ll find it listed under “U.S. Government” in the telephone directory. If your col lege has a military adviser, you would do well to visit him, too. Don’t take your questions to your draft board. It supplies no in formation on programs other than the draft. The training field is wide open to qualified enlistees. Since you are committed to at least three years, Uncle Sam is willing to invest money in you, to teach you special subjects or skills, or possibly to further a career al ready in progress. Training op portunities range from aviation and electronics to cryptography, journalism, music and foreign languages. The longer your term of active duty, of course, the better your chances are for ex tensive, specialized training. Short-Term Programs If a quick return to civilian life is your major consideration, you will, of course, be interested in the flexible short-term programs now offered by every service. You serve whatever amount of time the specific training course of your choice requires—in some cases, as little as four months. But in each you agree to a spe cific program and a specific duty before you join up. After the period of active duty you are re quired to spend the remainder of your six-year commitment in the Ready Reserve, with the usual 48 drills a year and the two weeks of summer duty. All the services are rapidly filling vacancies in their short term programs, so apply early at your local reserve unit. Accept ance depends on your ability to fill a specific opening in a spe cific unit, e.g., a gunner, radio operator, maintenance repairman, etc. Find out what spots are available and try to qualify for one. If there are no vacancies, you can put your name on the waiting list without committing yourself to any specialty or even to service in that particular pro gram. Once you have actually enlisted, however, you must be ready to begin active duty within 120 days. Remember: after you have completed your brief active stint, draft deferment depends upon continued satisfactory participa tion in the Ready Reserve. And, if yoiir future employer can’t spare you for more than two weeks, the two weeks of summer drill may be all the “vacation” you’ll get for the remainder of your six-year commitment. How ever, all reservists in the program are paid for every drill—an amount that adds up to an extra two-months military pay each year. Longer-Term Programs The Army, Navy and Coast Guard all offer programs for en listees requiring only two years of active duty. But chances for specialized training in two-year programs are very limited. If you want such training—or a commission—you will probably have to devote at least three years to active duty. However, this time is not necessarily irrelevant to your civilian plans. Junior executives are more promising if they come complete with the ad ministrative experience implicit in a military commission. Engi neers, chemists, information spe cialists, statisticians, personnel men and others have an edge if they have spent some time with their skills in the service before they start their first jobs. And, if it’s important to you, your chances of seeing the world are increasingly good the longer your term of active duty. Officer Candidate Schools You may apply for an Officer Candidate School straight from college, or from the service in which you are already enlisted. In many cases, only college THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. The Battalion is a non tax-supported non profit, self-supporting educational enter- pinse edited and operated by students as a university and community newspaper. The Associated Frees is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republieation of all other matter herein are also reserved. Second-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. News contributions may be made by telephoning 846-6618 or 846-4910 or at the editorial office. Room 4, YMCA Building. For advertising or delivery call 846-6416. Members of the Student Publications Board are: Joe Buser, chairman ; Dr. David Bowers, College of Liberal Arts; Dr. Robert A. Clark, College of Geosciences; Dr. Frank A. Mc Donald. College of Science; Dr. J. G. McGuire, College of Engineering; Dr. Robert S. Titus, College of Veterinary Medicine; and Dr. A. B. Wooten, College of Agriculture. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A&M is published in College Station, Texas daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods, September through May, and once a week during summer school. MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association ReprpBented nationally by National Advertisinsr Service, Inc., New York City, Chicagro, Los Angreles and San Franciaco. Mail subscriptions are $3.50 per semester; $6 per school year; $6.50 per full year. All subscriptions subject to 2% sales tax. Advertising: rate furnished on request. Address: The Battalion, Room 4, YMCA Building, College Station, Texas. EDITOR GLENN DROMGOOLE Managing Editor Tommy DeFrank Associate Editor Larry Jerden Sports Editor Gerald Garcia News Editor — Dani Presswood Amusements Editor Lani Presswood Staff Writers Robert Solovey, Mike Berry Sports Writer Larry Upshaw Photographer Herky Killingsworth graduates are accepted and nearly all candidates must spend a mini mum of 3 years active duty in exchange for the training and additional income offered to them as officers. If your goal is a commission, visit the Officer Pro curement branch of the service which interests you most. Reserve Officer Training Programs If your coliege offers ROTO training, you probably know the facts already. But if you have not participated and are now planning to do graduate work, it might interest you to know that you can become a late starter in any Reserve Officer Training program, provided you still have four years left as a student in which to complete the course. In most of these programs you re ceive military training through out college and limit your aca demic schedule to fewer electives. One exception is the Navy’s Re serve Officer Candidate program which trains only in summer months—then offers commissions on graduation. A limited number of Army, Navy, and Air Force ROTC scholarships are now available. Your entire college costs are paid, but you must serve at least 4 years in active duty. And the Navy’s scholarship program re quires extra summer training as well. Note: The Army, Navy and Air Force now offer a few direct commissions to highly-qualified graduates in certain technical and professional fields—without previous reserve officer training. The Final Decision No summary as brief as this can cover all the circumstances which may apply to some indi viduals—such as your chances of getting into military intelligence or the Counter Intelligence Corps or your interest, if any, in a permanent career in military service. But it does suggest that there are many possibilities to explore before the decision is taken out of your hands. Which ever way you perform your serv ice, you might as well have the extra satisfaction of knowing that you chose it because it seemed the best suited to your particular needs and interests. —Copyright Time, 1966— »jjo 3 Ultf Xq H'JIIOIS xsavo BA TTALIOJX CLASSIFIED Political Announcements Subject to action of the Dem ocratic Primary May 7, 1966. 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