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services of the Corps to the Army, the Navy, the OSRD and to industries 

 and educational institutions serving those organizations. He would be 

 guided in the enrollment and allocation of members of the Corps by a board 

 composed of representatives of the Secretaries of War and Navy and the 

 Director of OSRD. 



Members of the Corps were to be classified after the fashion of the pro- 

 fessional grades of the Civil Service of the United States with their sal- 

 aries to be paid by the Service, institution or contractor to which the Corps 

 member was assigned, but with the salaries guaranteed by the Corps for 

 the duration of the war and for three months thereafter. Members of the 

 Corps when assigned to the Army, Navy, OSRD, industries, laboratories, 

 or educational institutions would be under the orders of the appropriate offi- 

 cer in each organization but would not be subjected to reassignment by 

 that organization. Members of the Corps assigned to the Army or Navy 

 for service with combat forces would wear a uniform prescribed by the 

 Director; other members would wear appropriate insignia. 



Provision was to be made for a reserve category of especially selected 

 essential men to constitute not more than 10 per cent of each age group 

 beginning at 17 and including the groups 18 and 19, to be placed under 

 the control of special boards in each State with Army and Navy officers 

 attached to them. These boards would have the power to allocate the men 

 under their control to the Army and Navy as enlisted men, to the Civilian 

 Scientific Corps, to schools or colleges for additional training, to officer 

 training corps or for commissions. They would not be permitted to resign 

 or to enter civilian positions unless directed to do so by the board. 



A reserve technical training corps would be established to correspond 

 to the senior ROTC in colleges and universities and would be open to 

 students in science or engineering who had shown marked ability and 

 promise. Provision would also be made for a junior division of the Scien- 

 tific Corps in which students of science or engineering with marked ability 

 and promise could enlist under conditions laid down by the Director of 

 the Corps and be assigned to colleges, universities, and technical schools 

 for further training. Upon completion of the training they would be eligible 

 for the senior division of the Civilian Scientific Corps or for such service 

 in the armed forces as might be determined by the board of that Corps. 

 The proposal for the establishment of the Corps did not obtain the sup- 

 port of the Army and the President declined to authorize its establishment. 

 By Executive Order No. 9078 of February 26, 1942, however, the President 

 established the Army Specialist Corps in the War Department under the 

 supervision and direction of the Secretary of War to consist of a corps of 

 uniformed civilian employees appointed by the Secretary of War. Respon- 

 sibility for recruiting persons for the Corps was vested in the Civil Service 

 Commission. It was thought for a while that the Army Specialist Corps 



