Harry S. Truman: Executive Order 9557 - Amendment of Executive Order 9210 of August 1, 1942, Prescribing Regulations Governing the Payment of Additional Compensation to Enlisted Men of the Navy and Coast Guard Specially Qualified in the Use of Arms

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Executive Order 9557 - Amendment of Executive Order 9210 of August 1, 1942, Prescribing Regulations Governing the Payment of Additional Compensation to Enlisted Men of the Navy and Coast Guard Specially Qualified in the Use of Arms
May 26, 1945

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By the virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 16 of the Pay Readjustment Act of 1942 (56 Stat. 359, 368), the first paragraph of Executive Order 9210 of August 1, 1942, prescribing regulations governing the payment of additional compensation to enlisted men of the Navy and Coast Guard specially qualified in the use of arms is hereby amended to read as follows:

"By the virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 16 of the Pay Readjustment Act of 1942 (56 Stat. 359, 368), 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 or station to which permanently attached (provided the commanding officer of the ship or station to which they are permanently attached has retained them in 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."

This order shall become effective May 1, 1945.

HARRY S. TRUMAN
THE WHITE HOUSE,
May 26, 1945

Citation: John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters, The American Presidency Project [online]. Santa Barbara, CA. Available from World Wide Web: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=77886.

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