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Page 2 College Station, Texas Friday, Afc>ril 1, 1966
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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
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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—
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