Rhode Island General Laws

R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-3-11 (2026)

Classes from which commissioned officers selected

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Persons hereafter commissioned as officers of the National Guard shall be selected from the following classes:

(1) Officers or enlisted persons of the National Guard;

(2) Officers, active or retired, reserve officers, and former officers of the United States Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Space Force, or Coast Guard, enlisted personnel and former enlisted personnel of the United States Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Space Force, or Coast Guard who have received an honorable discharge therefrom;

(3) Graduates of any of the United States military and naval academies;

(4) Graduates of schools, colleges, universities, and officers’ training camps, where they have received military instruction under the supervision of an officer of the armed forces on active duty who certified their fitness for appointment as commissioned officers;

(5) For the technical branches or staff corps and departments, such other civilians as may be specially qualified for duty therein; and

(6) Or otherwise, as the above classes shall be changed or altered by the laws of the United States and the regulations issued thereunder.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 3 cases, 2000–2001 · leading case: Wigginton v. Centracchio, 787 A.2d 1151 (R.I. 2001).

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Wigginton v. Centracchio, 787 A.2d 1151 (R.I. 2001). · cites it 3× “The term “staff corps and departments” is found also in § 30-3-11, which provides that: “Persons hereafter commissioned as officers of the national guard shall be se *1156 lected from the following classes: * * * (5) For the technical branches or staff corps and departments,…”

Eugene E. Wigginton v. Reginald A. Centracchio, 205 F.3d 504 (1st Cir. 2000). “R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-3-11. Similar, but not identical, wording is to be found in the first sub-section (here, in bold type) of a statute dealing with the governor’s authority to organize, and reorganize, units of the Rhode Island militia: (a) The governor may organize, alter,…”

Wigginton v. Centracchio, 304 F.3d 55 (1st Cir. 2000). “R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-3-11. Similar, but not identical, wording is to be found in the first sub- section (here, in bold type) of a statute dealing with the governor's authority to organize, and reorganize, units of the Rhode Island militia: (a) The governor may organize, alter,…”

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