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Over half of this year's Air Force ROTC seniors may not receive commissions when they graduate in June, Colonel Frank P. Bostrom, professor of Air Science and Tactics, announced yesterday...
...Bostrom said this reduction in commissioned officers is in accordance with the Air Force's new plan announced last summer. The plan stated that candidates in the administrative field of the ROTC who cannot or will not pass physical requirements for flight training will, in most cases, not be commissioned as Air Force engineers but will receive a certificate of completion. This certificate will allow the graduate to enlist in the Air Force for a shortened two-year period and will be valid for two years following graduation...
...exact number of men who will be commissioned as engineers is still undecided. Nationally, the Air Force accepts only 1000 candidates in this field, and Bostrom stated that "most of these men come from schools like M.I.T. where practically all the candidates take engineering...
...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...
Commissions will be available for all flight cadet, either pilots or observers, and for some engineering majors. As for the others, "the latest information indicates that a small percent of the men in the administrative category will be given commission," Bostrom announced...