Executive Order 9210—Regulations Governing the Payment of Additional Compensation to Enlisted Men of the Navy and Coast Guard Specially Qualified in the Use of Arms

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 16 of the Pay Readjustment Act of 1942, approved June 16, 1942 (Public Law No. 607—77th Congress), it is hereby ordered that enlisted men of the Navy and Coast Guard who have established their special qualifications in the use of the arm or arms which they may be required to use, according to standards of efficiency that may be prescribed from time to time by the Secretary of the Navy, and who are so stationed by their commanding officers that they may be required to use such arm or arms, including periods while transferred for temporary duty away from the ship to which permanently attached (provided the commanding officer of the ship to which they are permanently attached has retained them in the battle stations where they normally use such arm or arms), shall receive additional compensation, under such regulations and conditions and for such periods of time as are now or may hereafter be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy, as follows:

First Class-----------------$5.00 per month
Second Class--------------4.00 per month
Third Class------------------3.00 per month
Fourth Class----------------2.00 per month
Fifth Class------------------1.00 per month

Executive Order No. 8040 of January 25, 1939, prescribing regulations governing the payment of additional compensation to enlisted men of the Navy specially qualified in the use of arms, is hereby superseded.

This order shall take effect as of June 1, 1942.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
August 1, 1942.