Women's Army Auxiliary Corps: Hearings Before the Committee on Military Affairs, United States Senate, Seventy-seventh Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 6293, a Bill to Establish a Women's Army Auxiliary Corps for Service with the Army of the United States. May 1 and 4, 1942

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1942 - 51 pages

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Page 25 - When officers of the National Guard or of the Reserve forces of any of the services mentioned in the title of this Act...
Page 22 - The following persons are subject to these articles and shall be understood as included in the term ' any person subject to military law,' or ' persons subject to military law...
Page 34 - That all officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men of the Army of the United States, other than the officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army, If called or ordered into the active military service by the Federal Government for extended military service in excess of thirty days...
Page 38 - To the extent provided for from time to time by appropriations for this specific purpose, the President may order reserve officers to active duty at any time and for any period ; but except, in time of a national emergency expressly declared by Congress, no reserve officer shall be employed on active duty for more than fifteen days in any calendar year without his own consent.
Page 36 - That the Army of the United States shall consist of the Regular Army, the Volunteer Army, the Officers...
Page 32 - ... be a charge against the officer's mileage account, to be deducted at the rate of three cents per mile by the paymaster paying the account...
Page 1 - MAY 1, 1942 UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON MILITARY AFFAIRS, Washington, DC The committee met, pursuant to call, at 10 am, in the committee room, Capitol Building, Senator Robert R. Reynolds (chairman), presiding. Present: Senators Reynolds (chairman), Lee, Schwartz, Hill, Chandler, Wallgren, Kilgore, Austin, Gurney, and Thomas of Idaho.
Page 33 - Act, when traveling under competent orders without troops, shall receive a mileage allowance at the rate of 8 cents per mile, distance to be computed by the shortest usually traveled route and existing laws providing for the issue of transportation requests to officers of the Army traveling under competent orders, and for deduction to be made from mileage accounts when transportation is furnished by the United States, are hereby made applicable...
Page 28 - No rental allowance shall accrue to an officer, having no dependents, while he is on field or sea duty...
Page 21 - House which if approved in the present form, will increase the pay of enlisted grades. If the present Women's Army Auxiliary Corps bill, which has been passed by the House, and the Navy bill, which has been passed by the House, and the pay bill, which has been passed by the Senate and is now before the House, all become law in their present forms, there would be. immediately, a disparity with respect to pay and allowances. We will have a Women's Army Auxiliary Corps with pay rates fixed in dollars...

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