R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-3-14: Qualifications of medical officers, judge advocates, and chaplains.

In the national guard, all commissioned officers of the medical corps must be physicians or surgeons licensed to practice in any state or the District of Columbia in the United States of America; all commissioned officers of the judge advocate general’s department must comply with the provisions of Article II, Rule 2(d) of the Rhode Island Supreme Court Rules; all chaplains must be regularly ordained ministers of the gospel, and any provision as to prior military service shall not apply to these officers.