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Show Eighteen And Nineteen Year- : Old Army Volunteers Will Serve In Branch of Own Choice The War Department announced an-nounced today the opening of an intensified campaign for the recruiting re-cruiting of eighteen and nineteen nine-teen year-old volunteers for the Army. This group will be given a much wider range of choice than in their privilege of picking the arm in which they are to Under the new ruling, recruits of eighteen and nineteen may volunteer specifically for the Quartermaster Corps, the Ordinance Ordi-nance Department, the Chemical Warfare Service, the Medical Department, De-partment, and the Corps of Military Mili-tary Police, in addition to the previous range of choice between the Infantry, Cavalry, Army Air Forces, Coast Artillery including includ-ing Antiaircraft and Harbor Defense-Field Artillery Armored Foorce, Engineers, and Signal C"This system of elective service is of vital importance to the Army today as a supp eme u , Selective Service," stated Lieutenant Lieu-tenant General Brehon Somervell Somer-vell Commanding General, Services Ser-vices of Supply. "It is not e-nough e-nough for our Army to he as big and as well equipped as the enemy's-it should also be as well balanced in age groups. The Army invites American youth to answer that challenge. "The privilege of electing their Brancehs of the Service can safely safe-ly be given to the men in the younger age group for precisely the reason for which the Army needs them their adaptability and ready response to training. In each of the five Services newly added to the list, as well as its eight Branches previously open, there are ample opportunities opportuni-ties for advancement and a chance to apply for Officer Candidate Can-didate School. No release from Selective Service Ser-vice Boards is needed in the case of volunteers eighteen and nineteen nine-teen years old. The consent of their parents, however, is required. |