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        37�U.S.C.�101.��Definitions
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| | 37 U.S.C. 101.� Definitions | 
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| | In addition to the definitions in section 1-5 of title 1, the following definitions apply in this title: | 
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| | (1)� The term "United States", in a geographic sense, means the States and the District of Columbia. | 
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| | (2)� The term "possessions" includes the Canal Zone, Guam, American Samoa, and the guano islands. | 
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| | (3)� The term "uniformed services" means the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Public Health Service. | 
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| | (4)� The term "armed forces" means the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. | 
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| | (5)� The term "Secretary concerned" means-- | 
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| | (A) the Secretary of the Army, with respect to matters concerning the Army; | 
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| | (B) the Secretary of the Navy, with respect to matters concerning the Navy, the Marine Corps, and the Coast Guard when it is operating as a service in the Navy; | 
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| | (C) the Secretary of the Air Force, with respect to matters concerning the Air Force; | 
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| | (D) the Secretary of Transportation, with respect to matters concerning the Coast Guard when it isn't operating as a service in the Navy; | 
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| | (E) the Secretary of Commerce, with respect to matters concerning the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; and | 
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| | (F) the Secretary of Health and Human Services, with respect to matters concerning the Public Health Service. | 
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| | (6)� The term "National Guard" means the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard. | 
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| | (7)� The term "Army National Guard" means that part of the organized militia of the several States, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Canal Zone, the Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia, active and inactive, that-- | 
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| | (A) is a land force; | 
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| | (B) is trained, and has its officers appointed, under the sixteenth clause of section 8, article I, of the Constitution; | 
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| | (C) is organized, armed, and equipped wholly or partly at Federal expense; and | 
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| | (D) is federally recognized. | 
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| | (8)� The term "Army National Guard of the United States" means the reserve component of the Army all of whose members are members of the Army National Guard. | 
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| | (9)� The term "Air National Guard" means that part of the organized militia of the several States, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Canal Zone, the Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia, active and inactive, that-- | 
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| | (A) is an air force; | 
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| | (B) is trained, and has its officers appointed, under the sixteenth clause of section 8, article I, of the Constitution; | 
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| | (C) is organized, armed, and equipped wholly or partly at Federal expense; and | 
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| | (D) is federally recognized. | 
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| | (10)� The term "Army National Guard of the United States" means the reserve component of the Air Force all of whose members are members of the Air National Guard. | 
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| | (11)� The term "officer" means commissioned or warrant officer. | 
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| | (12)� The term "commissioned officer" includes a commissioned warrant officer. | 
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| | (13)� The term "warrant officer" means a person who holds a commission or warrant in a warrant officer grade. | 
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| | (14)� The term "enlisted member" means a person in an enlisted grade. | 
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| | (15)� The term "grade" means a step or degree, in a graduated scale of office or rank, that is established and designated as a grade by law or regulation. | 
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| | (16)� The term "rank" means the order of precedence among members of the uniformed services. | 
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| | (17)� The term "rating" means the name (such as "boatswain's mate") prescribed for members of a uniformed service in an occupational field; "rate" means the name (such as "chief boatswain's mate") prescribed for members in the same rating or other category who are in the same grade (such as chief petty officer or seamen apprentice). | 
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| | (18)� The term "active duty" means full-time duty in the active service of a uniformed service, and includes full-time training duty, annual training duty, full-time National Guard duty, and attendance, while in the active service, at a school designated as a service school by law or by the Secretary concerned. | 
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| | (19)� The term "active duty for a period of more than 30 days" means active duty under a call or order that doesn't specify a period of 30 days or less. | 
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| | (20)� The term "active service" means service on active duty. | 
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| | (21)� The term "pay" includes basic pay, special pay, retainer pay, incentive pay, retired pay, and equivalent pay, but doesn't include allowances. | 
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| | (22)� The term "inactive-duty training" means-- | 
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| | (A) duty prescribed for members of a reserve component by the Secretary concerned under section 206 of this title or any other law; and | 
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| | (B) special additional duties authorized for members of a reserve component by an authority designated by the Secretary concerned and performed by them on a voluntary basis in connection with the prescribed training or maintenance activities of the units to which they are assigned;� and includes those duties when performed by members of a reserve component in their status as members of the National Guard, but doesn't include work or study in connection with a correspondence course of a uniformed service. | 
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| | (23)� The term "member" means a person appointed or enlisted in, or conscripted into, a uniformed service. | 
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| | (24)� The term "reserve component" means-- | 
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| | (A) the Army National Guard of the United States; | 
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| | (B) the Army Reserve; | 
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| | (C) the Naval Reserve; | 
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| | (D) the Marine Corps Reserve; | 
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| | (E) the Air National Guard of the United States; | 
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| | (F) the Air Force Reserve; | 
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| | (G) the Coast Guard Reserve; or | 
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| | (H) the Reserve Corps of the Public Health Service. | 
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| | (25)� The term "regular compensation" or "regular military compensation (RMC)" means the total of the following elements that a member of a uniformed service accrues or receives, directly or indirectly, in cash or in kind every payday: basic pay, basic allowance for quarters (including any variable housing allowance or station housing allowance), basic allowance for subsistence; and Federal tax advantage accruing to the aforementioned allowances because they aren't subject to Federal income tax. | 
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| | (26)� The term "contingency operation" has the meaning given that term in section 101 of title 10. | 
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| | 37 U.S.C. 204.� Entitlement | 
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| | (a)� The following persons are entitled to the basic pay of the pay grade to which assigned or distributed, in accordance with their years of service computed under section 205 of this title-- | 
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| | (1) a member of a uniformed service who is on active duty; and | 
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| | (2) a member of a uniformed service, or a member of the National Guard who isn't a Reserve of the Army or the Air Force, who is participation in full-time training, training duty with pay, or other full-time duty, provided by law, including participation in exercises or the performance of duty under section 3021,� 3496, 3541, 8021, 8496, or 8541 of Title 10, or section 503, 504, 505, or 506 of Title 32. | 
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| | (b)� For the proposes of subsection (a), under regulations prescribed by the President, the time necessary for a member of a uniformed service who is called or ordered to active duty for a period of more than 30 days to travel from his home to his first duty station and from his last duty station to his home, by the mode of transportation authorized in his call or orders, is considered active duty. | 
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| | (c)� A member of the National Guard who is called into Federal service for a period of 30 days or less is entitled to basic pay from the date when he appears at the place of company rendezvous.� However, this subsection doesn't authorize any expenditure before arriving at the place of rendezvous that isn't authorized by law to be paid after arrival at that place. | 
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| | (d)� Full-time training, training duty with pay, or other full-time duty performed by a member of the Army National Guard of the United States or the Air National Guard of the United States in his status as a member of the National Guard, is active duty for the purposes of this section. | 
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| | (e)� A payment accruing under any law to a member of a uniformed service incident to his release from active duty or for his return home incident to that release may be paid to him before his departure from his last duty station, whether or not he actually performs the travel involved.� If a member receives a payment under this subsection but dies before that payment would have been made but for this subsection, no part of that payment may be recovered by the United States. | 
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