Executive Order 8824—Prescribing Regulations Governing the Grades and Ratings of Enlisted Men of the Regular Army for the Fiscal Year 1942

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the act of June 20, 1936, 49 Stat. 1554, it is hereby ordered that for the fiscal year 1942 the grades and ratings of enlisted men of the Regular Army including selective service trainees assigned thereto, and the number of men in the several grades and ratings shall be the same as set forth in Executive Order No. 8595 of November 18, 1940, prescribing regulations governing the grades and ratings of enlisted men of the Regular Army for the fiscal year 1941, except that the maximum number of enlisted men of the 7th grade shall 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 for which appropriation was made in the "Military Appropriation Act, 1942", approved June 30, 1941.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
July 18, 1941.