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...Three AFROTC seniors have called a meeting of their 32 classmates in Air Science 4 who probably will not become officers this June. Colonel Frank P. Bostrom, Professor of Air Science and Tactics, had announced last Monday that the Air Force may have to withhold their commissions...
...AFROTC seniors who may not be commissioned are those who cannot pass the physical for flight training. Instead, they will receive a certificate of completion which will allow them to enlist in the Air Force for a shortened two-year period anytime within two years after graduation...
About 33 other AFROTC seniors, the rest of the class, will receive their commissions. Of these, 23 will serve as pilots, five as observers, and approximately five more as engineers...
Bostrom said that in the entire nation more than 3000 AFROTC candidates will not get commissions. He added, however, that the Air Force will take 4000 men who can meet the requirements as flyers, and 2750 more as observers...
Seftenberg, who inspected the University's AFROTC facilities last January, said that while the service hopes many of the commissioned officers will make the Air Force their career, this is not obligatory...