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(c) REPORT.—Not later than April 1, 2008, the Sec-
retary shall submit to the Committee on Armed Services 
of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of 
the House of Representatives a report on the evaluation. 
The report shall include the results of the evaluation and 
any recommendations for changes to policy or law that 
the Secretary considers appropriate. 
SEC. 527. NAVY JUNIOR RESERVE OFFICERS’ TRAINING 
CORPS UNIT FOR SOUTHOLD, MATTITUCK, 
AND GREENPORT HIGH SCHOOLS. 
For purposes of meeting the requirements of section 
2031(b) of title 10, United States Code, the Secretary of 
the Navy may, and to the extent the schools request shall, 
treat any two or more of the following schools (all in 
Southold, Suffolk County, New York) as a single institu-
tion: 
(1) Southold High School. 
(2) Mattituck High School. 
(3) Greenport High School. 
SEC. 528. NAVY SENIOR RESERVE OFFICERS’ TRAINING 
CORPS PROGRAM AT UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI, 
CORAL GABLES, FLORIDA. 
The Secretary of the Navy may establish and main-
tain a Senior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program
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under section 2102 of title 10, United States Code, at the 
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida. 
SEC. 529. INTENSIFIED EFFORTS TO PUBLICIZE AND 
AWARD SCHOLARSHIPS TO STUDENTS AT-
TENDING HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES 
AND UNIVERSITIES AND HISPANIC-SERVING 
INSTITUTIONS. 
The Secretary of Defense shall take due care to en-
sure that the Army National Guard and Reserve ROTC 
scholarships provided in this title are available to students 
attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities 
that are part B institutions as defined in section 322(2) 
of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1061(2)) 
and minority institutions (as defined in section 365(3) of 
that Act (20 U.S.C. 1067k(3))) and Hispanic-serving in-
stitutions as that term is used in section 502 of the Higher 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1101a). 
SEC. 530. SENSE OF CONGRESS WITH RESPECT TO EXTEN-
SION OF TIME LIMITATION FOR USE OF ENTI-
TLEMENT TO EDUCATION BENEFITS BY MEM-
BERS OF SELECTED RESERVE AND MEMBERS 
OF RESERVE COMPONENT SUPPORTING CON-
TINGENCY OPERATIONS. 
It is the sense of Congress that the time limitation 
for the use of entitlement to educational assistance under
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each of subchapters I and II of chapter 33 of title 38, 
United States Code, should be extended to allow an indi-
vidual entitled to such assistance to use that individual’s 
entitlement during the ten-year period beginning on the 
date on which the individual is separated from the Ready 
Reserve or the Selected Reserve of the Ready Reserve, as 
the case may be. 
Subtitle D—General Service 
Authorities 
SEC. 531. AUTHORITY TO REDUCE REQUIRED SERVICE OB-
LIGATION FOR INITIAL APPOINTMENT OF 
QUALIFIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AS OF-
FICERS IN CRITICAL SPECIALTIES. 
Section 651 of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(c) For the armed forces under the jurisdiction of 
the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary may reduce the 
total initial period of required service to less than the min-
imum otherwise established pursuant to subsection (a) in 
the case of the initial appointment of a commissioned offi-
cer in a critically short health professional specialty, as 
determined by the Secretary. The period of required serv-
ice may not be reduced to less than two years.’’.