not less than two scholastic years' work in an accredited college or university, and any enlisted man of the Navy or Marine Corps who shall demonstrate by a test the attainment of an educational level equivalent to that of two scholastic years of work in an accredited college or university; such candidates shall be not more than twenty-one years and six months of age on July 1 of the calendar year of enrollment as an aviation officer candidate and, upon enrollment, shall be appointed midshipmen in the Navy and ordered to duty for flight training. SEC. 4. Except as otherwise provided in this section, each midshipman appointed pursuant to part (a) of section 3, while continuing in such status, and each apprentice seaman enlisted pursuant to part (b) of section 3, until the completion of scholastic instruction, shall, except while on active duty, receive retainer pay at the rate of $600 per year and shall, in addition, be entitled to the benefits provided for him by section 10: Provided, That such benefits and retainer pay may be received by midshipmen appointed pursuant to part (a) of section 3 for a period not exceeding four academic years. Each midshipman and apprentice seaman enrolled pursuant to this Act shall be entitled to an allowance for (a) initial travel to the college or university in which matriculated, (b) travel while under orders, and (c) travel upon discharge while in a noncommissioned status, in the manner and to the same extent provided for midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy: Provided further, That no allowance for travel upon discharge shall be paid if the dischargee continues his scholastic instruction at other than Government expense in the same college or university in which matriculated. While in flight training or on other flight duty midshipmen appointed under part (b) of section 3 shall be entitled to the pay and allowances now or hereafter provided by law for midshipmen under instruction at the United States Naval Academy and to the same percentage increases of their pay as are now or hereafter provided by law for officers of the Navy assigned to duty involving flying, and shall be issued at Government expense necessary uniforms and equipment as directed by the Secretary of the Navy. SEC. 5. All midshipmen appointed under part (b) of section 3 may, upon satisfactory completion of flight training, be designated naval aviators and assigned to duty involving flying. SEC. 6. (a) Midshipmen appointed pursuant to section 3 (a) may be commissioned as ensigns in the line of the Navy, second lieutenants in the Marine Corps, or with e rank of ensign in the appropriate commissioned grade in such staff corps of the Navy in which the rank of ensign is now or may hereafter be authorized, following the satisfactory completion of all the academic and naval science requirements of the established four-year Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps course. 2. Midshipmen appointed pursuant to section 3 (b) may be commissioned as ensigns in the line of the Navy or second lieutenants in the Marine Corps following the satisfactory completion of two years' flight training and flight duty as midshipmen as prescribed in part (b) of section 3 and in section 5. (b) There may also be commissioned as ensign in the line of the Navy or second lieutenant in the Marine Corps, or with the rank of ensign in the appropriate commissioned grade in such staff corps of the Navy in which the rank of ensign is now or may hereafter be authorized, any male citizen of the United States who is not more than twenty-five years of age on July 1 of the calendar year in which appointed: (1) Who shall have satisfactorily completed a four-year course at an accredited college or university, or (2) who is an enlisted man of the Navy or Marine Corps who shall demonstrate by a test the attainment of an educational level equivalent to that of an individual who has satisfactorily completed a fouryear course at an accredited college or university. (c) Officers commissioned pursuant to this Act in the rank of ensign in a staff corps shall be selected for appointment by a board of commissioned officers of the staff corps concerned. (d) The date of rank stated in the commissions of officers commissioned in any year pursuant to the foregoing subsections of this section shall be the date of graduation of midshipmen from the Naval Academy in that year and all ensigns of the line of the Navy and second lieutenants of the Marine Corps of the same date of rank, upon being commissioned, shall have precedence among themselves in such order as may be determined by the Secretary of the Navy to insure that the precedence of the officers shall be in accord with their demonstrated performance regardless of the source from which prescribed, and giving due consideration to whatever differences may exist in the methods of assigning grades between the various education institutions at which the officers have been educated. Each officer commissioned in a staff corps of the Navy pursuant to the foregoing subsections of this section shall, upon being commissioned, have assigned as his running mate such line officer of the same rank and same date of rank as the Secretary of the Navy may determine. SEC. 7. Any officer commissioned under subsection 1 of subsection 6 (a) or under subsection 6 (b) may, upon his own application, after not less than fifteen months or two years, respectively, of satisfactory service as a commissioned officer, have his commission in the regular service terminated and be commissioned in the Naval Reserve or the Marine Corps Reserve and in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, be released from active duty. The date of rank in such commission in a reserve component shall be the same as that of the commission previously held in the regular service. [An officer who accepts a commission in a reserve component pursuant to this section, when released from active duty, shall receive a lump sum payment of $500 if he shall have served satisfactorily as a commissioned officer for a period of two years or a lump sum payment of $1,000 if he shall have served satisfactorily as a commissioned officer for a period of three or more years.] SEC. 8. The Secretary of the Navy shall in each calendar year cause to be examined (a) the records of all ensigns of the line of the Navy and second lieutenants of the Marine Corps commissioned pursuant to subsection 2 of section 6 (a) who apply for retention in the regular service as permanent officers and who in the then current calendar year will reach the first anniversary of the date of rank stated in their respective commissions, selecting from among such officers the number that he may determine necessary for retention, and (b) the records of all other officers appointed pursuant to this Act who apply for retention in the regular service as permanent officers and who in the then current calendar year will reach the third anniversary of the date of rank stated in their respective commissions, selecting from among such officers the number that he may determine necessary for retention. SEC. 9 (a) The commission of each officer commissioned pursuant to subsection 2 of section 6 (a) who, prior to June 1 of the calendar year following that in which commissioned, shall not have applied for retention in the regular service and of each officer not selected for retention under clause (a) of section 8 shall be terminated on June 30 of the appropriate calendar year. Upon termination of commission, each such officer who thereupon accepts appointment to commissioned rank in the Naval or Marine Corps Reserve may apply for and receive retainer pay at the rate of $100 for each calendar month or part thereof during which, while an officer of the Naval or Marine Corps Reserve, he pursues full-time instruction in an accredited college or university but not to exceed a total of $2,000, such instruction to commence not later than a date to be determined by the Secretary of the Navy; in addition, each such officer shall be entitled to the benefits provided for him by section 10 of this Act [and, upon the satisfactory completion of such instruction, he shall receive a lump sum payment of $500]. (b) The commission of each officer commissioned pursuant to subsection 1 of section 6 (a) and pursuant to section 6 (b) who, prior to June 1 of the third calendar year following that in which commissioned, shall not have applied for retention in the regular service and of each officer not selected for retention under clause (b) of section 8 shall be terminated on June 30 of the appropriate calendar year. Upon termination of commission, each such officer may be commissioned in the Naval or Marine Corps Reserve in the grade of lieutenant (junior grade) or first lieutenant, as the case may be (if in a staff corps, with the rank of lieutenant (junior grade) in the grade appropriate to that rank), and to rank from a date three years after the date of rank stated in his original commission in the Regular Navy or Regular Marine Corps. [Upon acceptance of such commission in the Naval or Marine Corps Reserve, each such officer shall receive a lump sum payment of $1,000.] SEC. 10. The Secretary of the Navy may provide, by contract or otherwise, for payment of all expenses incident to the administration of this Act, including but not limited to, payment for tuition, fees, books, and laboratory expenses of midshipmen in the Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps, naval aviation officer candidates, and of officers released under subsection 9 (a) of this Act. SEC. 11. The Secretary of the Navy may, in his discretion, give to any enlisted man in the naval service or any male citizen who has had active military or naval service such advance standing in any program provided by this Act as the previous education and training of such person justifies. [SEC. 12. The Secretary of the Navy, under such regulations as he may prescribe, may revoke the commission of any officer of the rank of ensign of the Regular Navy or of second heutenant of the Regular Marine Corps and each officer whose commission is so revoked shall be discharged from the service without advance pay or allowances.] SEC. 12. The Secretary of the Navy, under such regulations as he may prescribe, may revoke the commission of any officer of the Regular Navy or the Regular Marine Corps who at the date of revocation has had less than six years of continuous service as a commissioned officer, and each officer whose commission is so revoked shall be discharged from the service without advance pay or allowances. SEC. 13. National service life insurance in the amount of $10,000, the premiums for which shall be paid at Government expense, shall be issued to the following persons: (a) Apprentice seamen, United States Naval Reserve, enrolled as aviation officer candidates, at the commencement of flight-training activities and until the termination of their status as aviation officer candidates; (b) midshipmen, United States Navy, upon enrollment as aviation officer candidates and until the termination of that status; (c) midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy, at the commencement of flight-training activities and uncil the termination of their status as midshipmen. Upon being commissioned in the Regular Navy or Marine Corps such persons shall have the option of continuing such insurance at their own expense. SEC. 14. In the event that the quota of midshipmen authorized by law to be appointed annually to the Naval Academy from (1) enlisted men of the United States Navy and Marine Corps, (2) enlisted men of the Naval Reserve or Marine Corps Reserve, or (3) by the President at large, is not filled, the Secretary of the Navy may fill the vacancies in such quota by appointing other candidates from any other of such sources who were found best qualified on examination for admission into the Academy and not otherwise appointed. SEC. 15. Each midshipman hereafter appointed to the Naval Academy shall be required to sign an agreement that, in the event of the acceptance of his resignation from a commissioned status in the Regular Navy or Marine Corps prior to the sixth anniversary of his graduation from the Naval Academy, he will accept such commission in the Organized Naval or Marine Corps Reserve to which he may be appointed and will not resign from the Reserve prior to such sixth anniversary. SEC. 16. (a) The Act of December 20, 1917 (40 Stat. 430), as amended, is hereby further amended to read as follows: "There shall be allowed at the United States Naval Academy eight midshipmen for each Senator, Representative, Delegate in Congress, and Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, and from the District of Columbia, one hundred and sixty appointed annually from enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps and one hundred and sixty appointed annually from enlisted men of the Naval Reserve and Marine Corps Reserve by the Secretary of the Navy under similar conditions so far as applicable as prescribed by law for appointments from enlisted men of the Navy." (b) Until the necessary additional physical facilities and teaching personnel at the Naval Academy are available in the opinion of the President, the latter may, in each year, specify the number and sources of additional appointments as midshipmen herein authorized which may be made for the ensuing academic year. SEC. 17. The President may appoint annually seventy-five midshipmen to the United States Naval Academy from among the sons of Army, Navy, and Marine Corps personnel. SEC. 18. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such funds as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. SEC. 19. (a) Subsection (a) of section 22 of the Act of March 4, 1925 (43 Stat. 1276), as amended by the Act of February 13, 1945 (Public Law Numbered 1, Seventy,ninth Congress), is hereby further amended by substituting for the words "fourteen thousand" in the last proviso thereof the words "fifteen thousand four hundred". (b) Of the number of Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps members authorized by subsection (a) of this section, not more than fourteen thousand shall at any one time be enrolled in the training program established by this Act. [Sec. 20. Section 1379, Revised Statutes, is hereby amended by striking out the word "twenty-six" and substituting in lieu thereof the word "twenty-five"] SEC. 20. No person shall be appointed assistant paymaster in the Navy who, on July 1 of the calendar year in which appointed will not be less than twenty-one or more than twenty-five years of age, nor until his physical, mental, and moral qualifications have been established to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Navy. SEC. 21. The following Acts and parts of Acts are hereby repealed: (a) Section 2 of the Act of May 6, 1932 (47 Stat. 149). (b) Subsection (a) of section 14 of the Act of June 23, 1938 (52 Stat. 951). (c) Section 307 of the Act of June 25, 1938 (52 Stat. 1182). S. 1373 The CHAIRMAN. Since we have a few moments, I wonder if we may consider S. 1373, the bill for the relief of Commander Warren Sherman Parr, United States Navy? Captain Saunders, I with you would bring me up to date on this matter. Captain SAUNDERS. Mr. Chairman, the bill with reference to Commander Parr is in this situation: The committee has never reported the bill. Senator Saltonstall, as you know, wrote a letter to the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary complied with Senator Saltonstall's request, stating that he would promote him to the temporary rank of captain. However, the rank to which the Secretary promoted him, or rather the date as of which he was promoted did not give him the rank from the date at which he would be entitled, had he been selected the first time. What he desires is a change so that he would have his commission as captain dated back to May 1, 1943. The CHAIRMAN. As I remember the language of the bill, that matter is discretionary; it is not compulsory? Captain SAUNDERS. It reads: * may, in the discretion of the President and so on. The CHAIRMAN. In other words, the Navy Department would be consulted and if they did not disapprove, it could be given? Captain SAUNDERS. That is right. The CHAIRMAN. There being nothing further, the committee stands adjourned. (Whereupon, at 11:10 a. m., an adjournment was taken, subject to the call of the chairman.) |