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Show R0TC Unit at BAC Announces Plans For Advanced Training of AF Officers Branch Agricultural college, which has at the present time authority to train 175 basic cadets ca-dets in a feeder process for the USAC, may expand to a full four! year Air ROTC program with the i start of the 1951 school year, according ac-cording to an announcement this week by the ROTC department. Each cadet enrolled for Air ROTC at the BAC must qualify to Air Force standards both physically physi-cally and mentally before the end of the second school quarter. The Air ROTC program at all institutions now engaged in training Air cadets Is to be expanded. ex-panded. According to the announcement, an-nouncement, 6,500 students will be commissioned from 125 institutions in-stitutions throughout the nation at the end of this school year. This expansion calls for 11.300 students to be commissioned from 135 Institutions at the end of the 1953 school year. In case of all-out emergency, the yearly forecast calls for 10.000 officers from 125 schools. The biggest majority of Air ROTC students will be commissioned in aircraft engineering, communications or administrative fields. According to the announcement from the military department of the BAC, each cadet must appear before a special examining board at the end of the second school quarter. This academic board consists of two faculty members and three Air Force instructors. This board will determine each cadet's ca-det's future value to the Air Force and the ROTC program. If the cadet is accepted by the academic board he will be deferred de-ferred from the Selective Service program and earmarked for the USAF. This deferment is binding until the start of the Junior year in college, at which time the student wil be required to re-qualify re-qualify for advanced ROTC. The requalificatlon consists of a complete com-plete officer's physical exam and a mental examination for qualification quali-fication in the cadet's chosen field.. At the present time the United States Air Force has dire need for trained junior officers of the type being furnished by Air ROTC programs. All male students stu-dents now enrolled at the BAC are being encouraged to take this opportunity and equip them- 'selves both mentally and technically tech-nically to fulfill these Junior of- 'fleers vacancies or as trained j specialists for civilian economy. Although while engaged in the Air ROTC program the cadet is placed in a so-called deferred status this student is actually under commitment to the USAF until he is either commissioned or through his own volition disqualifies dis-qualifies himself either from the j program or the school at which time the students is made available avail-able to the selective service system. sys-tem. It Is contemplated that BAC will expand to a full four year Air ROTC program with the start of the 1951 school year. BAC, (Continued on Back Pogt) ROTG TRAINING (Continued from Front Page) which offers a B. S. degree in education qualifies under current Air Force criteria to commission officers in administration and education fields. The above plan has been approved by Pres. Mad-sen Mad-sen and Col. C. W. Haas of USAC Final approval must come from the Commanding general, Continental Conti-nental Air Command at Mitchell Air Force ' base, New York, through the Commanding General, Gen-eral, Fourth Air Force at Hamilton Ham-ilton Air Force base, California. These headquarters are being contacted by Dr. H. Wafne Driggs, director of BAC this week to gain final approval of the four year plan. All students will receive $27 a month after being admitted to advanced ROTC in their junior year. |