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...from a deferment plan for allowing potential officers to complete their college training, to a means of keeping constantly on tap and ready for immediate call a backlog of officer candidates. Vague as it is at present, there can be little doubt as to the eventual shape of the ERC and other reserve...
...following is a full statement on the ERC and V-1 and V-7 from Perkins...
...shift of quotas has re-opened enlistments in the ERC to men in all classes, but they will be closed on December 1, the War Service Information Bureau announced last night. Students not 18 by January 1, 1943, may make preliminary applications for the ERC and if accepted can be enlisted as soon after January 1, 1943 as they become...
...hope of the Study officials that their system of ascertaining capabilities from brief interviews can be used on a nationwide scale. Much the same procedure as was used with ERC candidates would be followed. A brief interview, physical fitness tests, and the relation of body disproportionateness are the bases on which decisions have been made...
...threatened close-down of ERC application came yesterday as Elliot Perkins, Director of War Service Information, began his selection from the number of men who have signed up. But Perkins emphasized that men who want to enlist may still apply, even though the official deadline is past, since the selective process may leave quotas unfilled...