Army Will Accept Air Force Group; Navy May Follow

Despite the elimination of the college AFROTC unit in July, 1957, Colonel Waldo B. Jones, professor of Air Science and Tactics, last nigh assured cadets that they would be allowed to finish their programs in one of the college's ROTC units.

All juniors and seniors will be able to finish their AFROTC training and receive commissions as usual under the new ruling.

Although the 58 freshmen and sophomores in the program will not be able to complete the air force program, Colonel Trevor N. Dupuy, professor of Military Science and Tactics, said that the army unit "will take any cadet Jones recommends." Under present regulations NROTC cannot accept such transfers, but Jones said he hoped the necessary arrangements would be made.

Mechanism Undecided

Although the exact mechanism for transferring basic AFROTC students to other units has not been worked out, Dupuy pointed out that the army has already accepted several transfers from the Air Force basic course into its own advanced course.

Whether freshmen would transfer to the army course at the end of this year or next will be decided in the near future, he said, emphasizing that the Army would give students credit for all AFROTC courses.