CHAPTER XL. RESERVE CORPS. Par. Par. 1537a 1538 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' Reserve Corps‒‒‒‒ Certain officers of the medical section, Officers' Reserve Corps, may be assigned to active duty in time of peace; pay of_____ Commissions to be in force for a period of five years.‒‒‒‒‒‒ Same May be recommissioned 1539 1540 1541 Same-Qualified graduates not eligible for appointment while undergoing postgraduate course.. Members who have completed two years of training may be furnished with commutation of subsistence for remainder of course of training_. Same-Credit to be given for military training______ Appointment of prior graduates en 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 titled to retirement or retired pay; pensionable status____-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 -- fied, rights conferred by----- 1582 Rosettes or knots to be issued to members attending at least one encampment for military instruction of citizens.___. Same-Penalty for unauthorized wearing of______ Assignment of members to organizations of Regular Army or organization of, into units or detachments of any arm, etc--May be ordered to active serv-, ice annually for purpose of instruction or training-- 1583 1584 1585 1586 1574b 1575 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 officers 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 1 See par. 1389, ante. or 38 Stat. 349. '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 Medicil 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, that for purposes of appointment in the Officers' Reserve Corps the lowest authorized 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 |