44-32 - Oath of National Guard officers.

§ 44-32. Oath of National Guard officers.

Commissioned officers of the National Guard shall take and subscribe to thefollowing oath of office:


"I  ............  do solemnly swear that I will support and
defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the
Commonwealth of Virginia, against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I
will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will obey the orders
of the President of the United States and of the Governor of the Commonwealth
of Virginia; that I make this obligation freely, without mental reservation or
 purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties
of the office of  ............  in the National Guard of the
United States and of the Commonwealth of Virginia, upon which I am about to
enter; so help me God." 

(1930, p. 954; Michie Code 1942, § 2673(22); 1958, c. 393.)