Repository: UIHistories Project: Booklet - Enlisted Reserves of the University (1942) [PAGE 4]

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shmen and sophomores. T H E NAVY E N L I S T E D RESERVE

i The University of Illinois is a land grant college ll id basic R.O.T.C. is required of all freshman and phomore men. Consequently students are not C igible for the Navy Enlisted Reserve until they tve completed the two years of basic R.O.T.C. here is an agreement between the Army and Navy p, tat no enlistments in the Naval Reserve will be ade from the freshman class and none from the >phomore class until after selection of student pc ' >r the Army R.O.T.C. advanced course has been P* ade. Thus the Navy V-l program which is for rc allege freshmen and sophomores is available at the >JJ University of Illinois, only to sophomores over 17 id under 20 years of age, who have not been ,« .. elected for advanced R.O.T.C. training. 1 t0 h Students who have been previously enlisted in le General Army Enlisted Reserve and who do not y ; j ".ire ccept contracts for the advanced R.O.T.C. course ^Jp^iay, upon application, be discharged from the vrm e n •r^teS ~ Reserve for the purpose of enlisting in th ava eserve n unded c\ ^ * ^ J * ^he following classifications: nust be Navy, Class V-5—Naval Aviation Cadet.—The [• r thf tudent must be over 18 and under 27 years of age, th edohysically and psychologically qualified for appointnent as a naval aviation cadet, and able to pass e ^"ith^ -atisfactorily the "Aviation Classification Test.'* inc Enlistment is through the nearest Naval Aviation ur '"adet Examining Board. Students enlisted in this . dassification are deferred from active duty until a substarompletion of the current academic year only. c Navy, Class V-7—Reserve Midshipman. (Deck, ^ '/" W AR Engineering and Special Service Officer CandiVCTdates.)—The student must have junior or senior x I J'-D status, must be over 19 and under 28 years of age, must meet the physical requirements, and must ; J' have completed before graduation at least one year under of college mathematics, including trigonometry, : . ct ula where this was not taken in secondary school. ilia, Enlistment is through the nearest Naval Recruiting ; j0., d . Office. The Navy does not expect to call students the \ in this classification to active duty until they have I

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