Show Army Bachelor Rule to toBe toBe Be Back in Effect in in 49 A new war war de de- department department regulation suggested that I Ithe the army's to full postwar status will be delayed until July 1 1949 Beginning with that date no newly new new- newly newly ly commissioned second lieutenant may take a bride for a year ye r upon pain of forfeiting his commission This rule was suspended in 1942 1942 because during the war most new officers came from civil life lUe The The- 1949 date makes the additional addi addi- additional additional year of enforced bachelor bachelor- bachelorhood bachelorhood bachelorhood hood apply to the first West Point class to he admitted to the acad acad- academy academy academy emy since V-E V Day |