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Executive Order 9928—Suspending Professional Examinations for Permanent Promotion of Officers in the Medical Department of the Army

January 21, 1948

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 507(b) of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947, approved August 7, 1947 (Public Law 381, 80th Congress), it is ordered as follows:

1. The operation of all provisions of law requiring professional examinations for permanent promotion in the Regular Army of officers of the Medical, Dental, and Veterinary Corps is hereby suspended until June 30, 1948.

2. This order shall become effective as of January 1, 1948.

HARRY S. TRUMAN

THE WHITE HOUSE,

January 21, 1948

Harry S Truman, Executive Order 9928—Suspending Professional Examinations for Permanent Promotion of Officers in the Medical Department of the Army Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/278553

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