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Show OFFICERS MUST RETIRE WHEN THEY REACHAGE LIMIT Mandatory retirement of overage over-age officers of the army will become be-come effective September 30, 1943, it was announced today at the headquarters of Major General Gen-eral Kenyon A. Joyce, commanding command-ing general of the Ninth service command, at Fort Douglas, Utah. A recent War department directive di-rective requires that officers who have reached the statutory retirement re-tirement age will be relieved from active duty not later than September 30. The statutory age is 60 for officers of-ficers up to and including the rank of colonel, 62 for brigadier generals and 64 for major generals, gen-erals, lieutenant generals and all officers of the Medical and Chaplain Chap-lain Corps. Enforced retirement affects a number of officers in the Ninth service command. Many are, occupying oc-cupying key positions on the headquarters staff and in command com-mand of large posts, camps and installations. In their assigned duties they are giving the government gov-ernment the benefit of their experience ex-perience and judgment gained during long years of faithful and efficient service. According to the policy announced an-nounced by the War department the expansion of the armed forces, forc-es, air, ground and service, has now reached a point of a grad-ua grad-ua leveling off which probably will be completed by the early fall. This leveling off process results re-sults for the time being in an overproduction of officers which must be met by the readjustments readjust-ments best calculated to maintain main-tain and improve the efficiency of the army as a whole. The government owes a salute to the stout-hearted 0der offic. ers who volunteered theirser-vices theirser-vices at the outbreak of the limit-' ed emergency. Their patriotism is evidiced by their leaving the i peace and comfort of retirement I to take up difficult tasks of war 1 administration or to remain at' such tasks after reaching an aae when retirement could be accepted. ac-cepted. To the officers departing because be-cause of the mandatory application applica-tion of the policy, the commanding command-ing general of the Ninth service command Major General Ken-) yon A. Joyce states: 1 1, 1U,r f 'rvlces have been in-; valuable to the government and; to me. It has been through vour generous efforts and devotion to duty that this command has accomplished ac-complished its part in the stu-: pendous task which the war "has imposed on all elements of the I armed forces. I regret your departure de-parture and wish for vou all contentment con-tentment in your well earned surcease from the trying grind of the war effort." |
