Executive Order 8502—Regulations Governing the Grades and Ratings of Enlisted Men of the Regular Army for the Fiscal Year 1941

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the act of June 20, 1936, 49 Stat. 1554, it is ordered that during the fiscal year 1941 the grades and ratings of the enlisted men of the Regular Army shall be as set forth herein, and that the number of enlisted men in the several grades and ratings shall not exceed the number specified herein.

1. The several grades and the maximum number of enlisted men therein shall be as follows:

                                                                 Number
1st Grade—Master Sergeants ------------ 3,336
2nd Grade—1st Sergeants and
    Technical Sergeants ------------------ 8,373
3rd Grade—Staff Sergeants ------------- 17,334
4th Grade—Sergeants ----------------- 32,861
5th Grade—Corporals ----------------- 35,410
6th Grade—Privates, lst Class ---------- 114,590
7th Grade—Privates, the number of whom will be such that when added to the number of enlisted men above Grade Seven and to the authorized number of flying cadets the total will not exceed the enlisted pay strength of the Army appropriated for by the "Military Appropriation Act, 1941", approved June 13, 1940, and the "First Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Act", approved June 26, 1940.

2. Specialists ratings and the maximum number of enlisted men therein shall be as follows:

                                                              Number
1st Class ------------------------------ 2,663
2nd Class ------------------------------ 5,323
3rd Class ----------------------------- 15,092
4th Class ----------------------------- 29,264
5th Class ----------------------------- 24,270
6th Class ----------------------------- 50,069

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

The White House,
August 3, 1940.