--- title: Can You Qualify for the Army Air Corps? url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/can-you-qualify-for-the-army-air-corps-1942/ description: 'Red, white and blue recruiting chart in a dense table of entry rules for Aviation Cadets and enlisted men: age, education, physical standards, pay.' section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Can You Qualify for the Army Air Corps? [![Can You Qualify for the Army Air Corps?, 1942 US poster: Red, white and blue recruiting chart in a dense table of entry rules](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/can-you-qualify-for-the-army-air-corps-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/can-you-qualify-for-the-army-air-corps-1942.jpg) # Can You Qualify for the Army Air Corps? Red, white and blue recruiting chart in a dense table of entry rules for Aviation Cadets and enlisted men: age, education, physical standards, pay, benefits and where to apply, closing with the slogan 'Keep 'Em Flying!'. The technique is faint here; the slogan is a virtue-word call to join, set around plain eligibility facts. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` CAN YOU QUALIFY FOR THE ARMY AIR CORPS? 1 | 2 AVIATION CADETS - Commissioned as Second Lieutenants Upon Graduation | 3 ENLISTED MEN TYPE OF TRAINING: AIR CREW (Bombardier, Navigator, Pilot) | GROUND CREW (Armament, Engineering, Communication, Photography, Meteorology) | Aviation Students, Staff Sergeant Pilots upon Graduation | Technicians, See 4 below THOSE ELIGIBLE: 1. Civilians 2. Personnel of the Army of the United States | Enlisted personnel of the Army of the United States | Air Corps Enlisted Men AGE REQUIREMENTS: 18 to 26 (both inclusive) | 18-22 (both inclusive) | 18-35 (both inclusive) MARITAL STATUS: Single or Married. Applicant must sign a statement that dependents have sufficient means of support. | Single | Same as Aviation Cadets MINIMUM EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR APPLICATION OR ENLISTMENT OF MALE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES OF EXCELLENT CHARACTER AND SOUND PHYSIQUE: WRITTEN EXAMINATION. All applicants must take a qualifying educational examination designed to determine whether or not the applicant has sufficient education to enable him to absorb and comprehend the technical instruction of the Aviation Cadet course. The examination is of the short-answer, multiple-choice type. A well-read, intelligent man should have little or no difficulty in passing this examination. Formal schooling is not a prerequisite. NO AIR CREW CANDIDATE IS EXEMPT FROM THIS EXAMINATION Armament: Civilians, former Aviation Cadets, Cadets now in training, preferably with training in Engineering or Science. Cadets and former Cadets must be recommended by Commanding Officer, and must not have failed in any ground school subjects. Engineering: Completion of at least three years of Engineering in an accredited college or university. Communication: 1. Men who have completed two full years of Engineering studies at an accredited college 2. Men who have completed two years of college and who hold amateur radio licenses. Photography: Completion of three years of Chemistry or Geology in an accredited college, preferably with professional or considerable amateur photographic experience. Meteorology: College graduates who have specialized in the Sciences, Engineering, etc. and who have completed thorough courses in Mathematics, including Differential and Integral Calculus and Physics, including Heat and Thermodynamics. Enlisted: 1. Graduate of High School. (Army Regulations state - secondary school on approved list of U. S. Office of Education whose credits are acceptable for entrance into accredited higher institutions.) 2. Applicant must have credits not less than 1½ units of Mathematics. | Normal Enlistment Requirements PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: Candidates must meet the physical standards set for Reserve Officer commission, except that visual acuity must be 20/20 and color vision normal. Minimum height, 60 inches; maximum, 76 inches. Maximum weight, 200 pounds. | General standards for Reserve Officer commission, with requirements as to vision, hearing, etc., somewhat lower than those for air crew. | Same as for Aviation Cadet (Air Crew) | Regular Army Physical Examination LENGTH OF TRAINING: 7½ months | 3 months | 3 months | 3½ months | 5 months | 7 months | 7½ months | See 4 below GRADE WHILE TRAINING: AVIATION CADET | Called Aviation Student. Trains in grade held at beginning of training period and is on detached service from original organization. | Same as grade held on entry PAY AND ALLOWANCES WHILE TRAINING: $75 a month, $1 a day, subsistence | Pay corresponds to grade held during training, plus 50% increase while on flying status. | Same as grade held on entry [transcription stops here at the 4000-character field limit; the chart continues with the remaining rows from SERVICE REQUIRED AFTER GRADUATION, where-to-apply, method-of-application, the enlisted specialists list, the Army Recruiting Service line and "KEEP 'EM FLYING!"] ``` [← Can you qualify as an aviation cadet?](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/can-you-qualify-aviation-cadet-1942/) [Ça ne vaut rien du tout si ça vient trop tard! \[It's worth nothing at all if it comes too late!\] →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-ca-ne-vaut-rien-si-ca-vient-trop-tard-french-1942/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Gypsum alabaster slab inscribed in cuneiform, from Nimrud (Kalhu), reign of Ashurnasirpal II](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nimrud-slab-ashurnasirpal-ii-inscription-883bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Bronze sestertius of Trajan, reverse S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, S C, the emperor on horseback riding down an enemy](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sestertius-trajan-optimo-principi-0103/) (Roman Empire · 0103 · Testimonial, Glittering generalities) - [Gold solidus of Constantine I, reverse RESTITVTORI LIBERTATIS](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/solidus-constantine-i-restitutori-libertatis-0313/) (Roman Empire · 0313 · Glittering generalities) - [Gold solidus of Justinian I, reverse VICTORIA AVGGG with Victory holding a Christogram staff](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/solidus-justinian-i-victoria-avggg-0538/) (Byzantine Empire · 0538 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [The Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I (Royal Museums Greenwich version), oil on panel](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/armada-portrait-elizabeth-i-greenwich-1588/) (England · 1588 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Medal of Elizabeth I: portrait in a ruff, reverse an ark on stormy waves with SAEVAS TRANQVILLA PER VNDAS (18th-century aftercast of a 1588 model)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/elizabeth-i-ark-medal-aftercast-1588/) (England · 1588 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Frontispiece to Eikon Basilike, The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings (Hollar, 1649)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eikon-basilike-frontispiece-hollar-1649/) (Dutch Republic · 1649 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)