United States v. Allen Zane Lonstein

Section 6(c) (2) (A) of the Universal Military Training and Service Act, 50 U.S.C. App. § 456(c) (2) (A), provides, with an exception not here material, that any person who “prior to attaining the age of twenty-six years and prior to the issuance of orders for him to report for induction, enlists or accepts appointment in the Ready Reserve of any reserve component of the Armed Forces * * * shall be deferred from training and service under this Act so long as he serves satisfactorily as a member of an organized unit of such Ready Reserve * In 1961 the Department of the Army called the…