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OCR Page 1 of 18EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
BUREAU OF THE BUDGET
WASHINGTON 25, D.C.
OCT 5 1945
My dear Mr. Latta:
The Congress has enacted H.R. 3951, "To stimulate volunteer enlist-
ments in the Regular Military and Naval Establishments of the United States.
The President, in his message of September 6, 1945, urged the
Congress to consider ways and means to assure the maximum success of
campaigns to recruit volunteers for the Regular Army and the Regular
Navy. This enrolled enactment is designed to accomplish that purpose
and directs the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy to carry
forward intensive recruiting campaigns for volunteers. It suspends the
280,000 ceiling on the size of the Regular Army and directs the accept-
ance of enlistments and reenlistments therein for periods of 18 months
or two or three years from persons not less than 17 years of age and
reenlistments for one year from persons who have served in the Army for
not less than six months. The proposed measure requires quarterly reports
on volunteer enlistments in the Regular Army, and terminates the authority
to recruit for the Regular Army on June 30, 1947.
Enrolled enactment H.R. 3951 offers certain inducements to persons
who volunteer thereunder for the Regular Army or the Regular Navy. It
provides for payment of enlistment or reenlistment furlough allowances
and for payment of enlistment allowances; for acceleration of mustering-
out payments; for reestablishment of the right to select family allowances
instead of monetary allowances in lieu of quarters; for continuance of
receipt of family allowances during the enlistment or reenlistment period
by persons who enlist or reenlist prior to July 1, 1946; for extension
of free mail privileges to December 31, 1947; for continuance of the
overseas pay differential; for enlistment or reenlistment in the highest
permanent or temporary grade held at the time of discharge by any person
hlisting or reenlisting prior to February 1, 1946; and for extensi on of
the time within which the privileges provided by the Servicemen's Readjust-
ment Act of 1944 (G.I. Bill of Rights) may be enjoyed. It also authorizes
retirement by enlisted members of the Regular Army upon completion of 20
or more years' service.
The Secretary of War is authorized by the enrolled enactment to
enlist in the Philippine Scouts, with the approval of the Philippine
Government, for periods of three years, 50,000 men for service in the
Philippine Islands, in the occupation of Japan and of lands now or
formerly subject to Japan, and elsewhere in the Far East. Citizens
of the Philippine Islands are eligible to volunteer for such enlist-
ment.
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