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Show Navy Recruiters Will Interview Men this Week Bearing a message of vital interest in-terest to college men and recent graduates who desire to serve in the United States navy during the war as officers, a mobile unit of Naval officers and enlisted men will arrive in Logan at. - p.m. Saturday, August 1. The unit which will be stationed station-ed at the court room of the Cache county courthouse, will interview potential candidates for commissions commis-sions in the Navy's V-l and V-7 programs, as well as professional men with suitable educational and professional backgrounds for the more specialized billets." In its V-l program, the Navy enlists college . freshmen and sophomores so-phomores in a probationary status, on the student's agreement to take certain mathematics and science courses prescribed. At the end of the second year these students are given aptitude tests to deter- mine whether they will go immediately immed-iately into flight training for the air arm, or complete school and become deck officers, engineer officers, of-ficers, or specialists. College students stu-dents who will not be juniors before be-fore November 1, 1942, are eligible eligi-ble for enlistment in this program provided they are between 17 and 19, inclusive; are unmarried, and have been citizens for at least 10 years. The V-7' program is open to college col-lege juniors and seniors as well as graduates who have not yet reached reach-ed their 28th birthdays. Navy policy is to permit its students in I this classifciation to remain in school until they have received their degrees. They then go k Notre Dame University for Naval (Continued on page Eight) NAVY RECRUITERS WILL INTERVIEW MEN THIS WEEK (Continued from page Onei) indoctrination, and thence to one of the four large training schools at Columbia University, Northwestern North-western University, the Prairie State training ship at New York, or the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Anna-polis. On completion of this course they are commissioned Ensigns and become either deck officers or engineering en-gineering officers. In addition to college men, the Naval unit will interview engineers, engin-eers, small boat operators, radio specialists, and other professional men who have college degrees or who have completed two years of college and are outstanding in their . professions. Commissions commensurate with their rank will be awarded - successfu lapplicants in these fields. |