§121-14  Officers and warrant officers;qualifications, appointment, tenure.  Commissioned officers and warrantofficers shall be citizens of the United States and shall be at leasttwenty-one years of age or such lower age as may be authorized for appointmentas reserve officers of the army or the air force by federal laws andregulations.  They shall be appointed upon the order of the governor, subjectto federal recognition as commissioned officers and warrant officers in thearmy or air national guard, except as to those officers appointed asaides-de-camp to the governor and staff positions not requiring federalrecognition.  Officers and warrant officers whose appointments are subject tofederal recognition shall meet the qualifications prescribed by the secretaryof the army or the air force, as the case may be.  The commissions of allofficers and appointments of warrant officers shall continue in forceindefinitely and until they are separated from the service of the nationalguard in accordance with this chapter. [L 1967, c 196, pt of §1; HRS §121-14]