Naval Openings

A LETTER TO THE COLLEGE from the BOSton headquarters of the First Naval District announces that the Commandant desires to procure applicants, 19 to 38 years of age, for special training in Photographic Interpretation, to be commissioned officers in the U. S. Naval Reserve. Men most suitable for this training are those who have a broad general education with an engineering background, the letter states. College graduates having experience with architecture, geology, cartography, manufacturing plan design, or similar fields are considered especially well qualified. Knowledge of photography is helpful but not essential.

Those applicants selected will be commissioned as Ensign Aviation, Volunteer, Special Service, U. S. Naval Reserve. They will be ordered to active duty with full pay and allowances of the rank and sent in groups of twenty to the Naval Air Station, Anacostia, Maryland, for an eight weeks' -course of instruction. The first class convenes on January 2, 1942, and others will follow at two-month intervals.

No appointment will be made above the rank of Ensign. The pay is $183.00 a month with a $250.00 uniform allowance. Applicants must be citizens of the United States or naturalized cititzens for not less than ten years and morally and physically qualified for appointment. They may be married or unmarried. To make application to the First Naval District they should also be residents of the New England states, less Connecticut. Applicants should communicate with the District Personnel Office, Headquarters First Naval District, 150 Causeway Street, Boston, Massachusetts.