Executive Order 8633—Ordering Certain Units and Members of the National Guard of the United States Into the Active Military Service of the United States

By virtue of the authority conferred upon me by Public Resolution No. 96, 76th Congress, approved August 27, 1940, and the National Defense Act of June 3, 1916, as amended (39 Stat. 166), and as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, I hereby order into the active military service of the United States, effective on dates to be hereafter announced by the Secretary of War, the following units and members of the National Guard of the United States to serve in the active military service of the United States for a period of twelve consecutive months, unless sooner relieved:

UNITS

All Federally recognized elements of:

     28th Division
     29th Division
     33d Division
     34th Division
     40th Division
     43d Division
     Hq & Hq Btry, 71st FA Brigade

     Hq & Hq Btry, 72d FA Brigade
     Hq & Hq Btry, 74th FA Brigade
     Hq & Hq Btry, 75th FA Brigade
     Hq & Hq Btry, 76th FA Brigade

     Hq & Hq Btry, 102d CA Brigade (AA)

     103d AC Observation Squadron
     104th AC Observation Squadron
     108th AC Observation Squadron
     109th AC Observation Squadron
     115th AC Observation Squadron
     118th AC Observation Squadron

     372d Infantry

     104th Cavalry
     107th Cavalry
     115th Cavalry

     119th Field Artillery
     144th Field Artillery
     168th Field Artillery
     172d Field Artillery
     177th Field Artillery
     179th Field Artillery
     181st Field Artillery
     182d Field Artillery
     183d Field Artillery
     187th Field Artillery
     188th Field Artillery
     191st Field Artillery
     258th Field Artillery

     205th Coast Artillery (AA)
     207th Coast Artillery (AA)
     209th Coast Artillery (AA)
     210th Coast Artillery (AA)
     212th Coast Artillery (AA)
     217th Coast Artillery (AA)

     101st CA Bn (AA) (Sep) (37mm gun)
     103d CA Bn (AA) (Sep) (37mm gun)
     104th CA Bn (AA) (Sep) (37mm gun)
     107th CA Bn (AA) (Sep) (37mm gun)

     191st Tank Battalion
     194th Tank Battalion, less 1 Company

     103d Anti-tank Battalion
     105th Anti-tank Battalion

     101st MP Battalion

MEMBERS

All members, both active and inactive, of the units listed above.

All persons so ordered into the active military service of the United States are, from the effective date for each unit as respectively announced in War Department orders, relieved from duty in the National Guard of their respective States so long as they shall remain in the active military service of the United States, and during such time shall be subject to such laws and regulations for the government of the Army of the United States as may be applicable to members of the Army whose permanent retention in the active military service is not contemplated by law.

Commissioned officers and warrant officers appointed in the National Guard of the United States and commissioned or holding warrants in the Army of the United States, and affected by this Order, are hereby ordered to active duty on the dates to be respectively prescribed in War Department orders under such appointments and commissions or warrants.

All officers and warrant officers of the National Guard, appointed in the National Guard, who shall have been Federally recognized or examined and found qualified for Federal recognition, and shall have been assigned to units ordered to active duty under this Order prior to the effective dates respectively to be indicated for such units in War Department orders, who do not hold appointments in the National Guard of the United States in the same grade and arm or service in which they respectively have been most recently Federally recognized or have been most recently examined and found qualified for Federal recognition, are hereby tendered appointments in the National Guard of the United States in the same grade and arm or service in which they shall have been most recently Federally recognized or examined and found qualified for Federal recognition.

Each warrant officer and enlisted man of the National Guard, assigned to a unit ordered to active duty under this Order, who shall have been examined and found qualified for appointment as an officer in the National Guard of the United States, under the provisions of Section 111, National Defense Act, as amended, and who shall not have been appointed in the National Guard of the United States in the grade for which examined and found qualified prior to the effective date to be prescribed in War Department orders for the induction of his unit, is hereby tendered appointment in the National Guard of the United States and commission in the Army of the United States, in the same grade and arm or service for which he shall have been so examined and found qualified, effective on the date of induction of his unit.

Each warrant officer and enlisted man .of the National Guard who holds appointment as an officer in the National Guard of the United States and a commission in the Army of the United States, or who is tendered such appointment and commission by the terms of this Order, and who is assigned to a unit ordered to active duty under this Order prior to the effective date to be prescribed in War Department orders for the induction of such unit, is hereby ordered to active military service as a commissioned officer of the Army of the United States under that appointment and commission, effective on the date of induction of his unit.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
January 14, 1941.