AFROTC Candidates for M.A. Will Receive Unlimited Deferment

The Air Force announced yesterday that Air Force ROTC graduates will receive unlimited deferment from active service while studying for an M.A., instead of the previous one-year limit.

Col. Waldo B. Jones of the Harvard AFROTC Unit also reported that the Air Force will begin to offer deferment to ROTC graduates who are candidates for a Ph.D., if their field of study is of potential benefit to the Air Force.

In opposition to this general policy, Jones said, the Air Force intends to tighten delay allowances in certain technical fields which graduates can study equally well while in the Air Force.

These fields include medicine, meteorology, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and allied health fields.

The deferments will still be given in six month periods, and Air Force regulations will preserve the "catch-all" deferments, which state that any ROTC graduate may receive an induction delay because of "financial difficulties."