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TITLE IV—MILITARY
PERSONNEL AUTHORIZATIONS
Subtitle A—Active Forces
SEC. 401. END STRENGTHS FOR ACTIVE FORCES.
The Armed Forces are authorized strengths for active
duty personnel as of September 30, 1994, as follows:
(1) The Army, 540,000.
(2) The Navy, 480,800.
(3) The Marine Corps, 174,100.
(4) The Air Force, 425,700.
Subtitle B—Reserve Forces
SEC. 411. END STRENGTHS FOR SELECTED RESERVE.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Armed Forces are authorized
strengths for Selected Reserve personnel of the reserve
components as of September 30, 1994, as follows:
(1) The Army National Guard of the United
States, 410,000.
(2) The Army Reserve, 260,000.
(3) The Naval Reserve, 113,400.
(4) The Marine Corps Reserve, 36,900.
(5) The Air National Guard of the United
States, 117,700.
(6) The Air Force Reserve, 81,500.
(7) The Coast Guard Reserve, 10,000.
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(b) WAIVER AUTHORITY.—The Secretary of Defense
may increase the end strength authorized by subsection
(a) by not more than 2 percent.
(c) ADJUSTMENTS.—The end strengths prescribed by
subsection (a) for the Selected Reserve of any reserve com-
ponent shall be reduced proportionately by—
(1) the total authorized strength of units orga-
nized to serve as units of the Selected Reserve of
such component which are on active duty (other
than for training) at the end of the fiscal year, and
(2) the total number of individual members not
in units organized to serve as units of the Selected
Reserve of such component who are on active duty
(other than for training or for unsatisfactory partici-
pation in training) without their consent at the end
of the fiscal year.
Whenever such units or such individual members are re-
leased from active duty during any fiscal year, the end
strength prescribed for such fiscal year for the Selected
Reserve of such reserve component shall be increased pro-
portionately by the total authorized strengths of such
units and by the total number of such individual members.
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SEC. 412. END STRENGTHS FOR RESERVES ON ACTIVE
DUTY IN SUPPORT OF THE RESERVES.
Within the end strengths prescribed in section
402(b), the reserve components of the Armed Forces are
authorized, as of September 30, 1994, the following num-
ber of Reserves to be serving on full-time active duty or,
in the case of members of the National Guard, full-time
National Guard duty for the purpose of organizing, ad-
ministering, recruiting, instructing, or training the reserve
components:
(1) The Army National Guard of the United
States, 24,180.
(2) The Army Reserve, 12,542.
(3) The Naval Reserve, 19,369.
(4) The Marine Corps Reserve, 2,119.
(5) The Air National Guard of the United
States, 9,389.
(6) The Air Force Reserve, 648.
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SEC. 413. INCREASE IN NUMBER OF MEMBERS IN CERTAIN
GRADES AUTHORIZED TO BE ON ACTIVE
DUTY IN SUPPORT OF THE RESERVES.
(a) SENIOR ENLISTED MEMBERS.—Effective on Oc-
tober 1, 1993, the table in section 517(b) of title 10,
United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
‘‘Grade
Army
Navy
Air Force
Marine
Corps
E–9 ........................................
569
202
328
E–8 ........................................
2,585
429
840
74’’.
(b) OFFICERS.—Effective on October 1, 1993, the
table in section 524(a) of such title is amended to read
as follows:
‘‘Grade
Army
Navy
Air Force
Marine
Corps
Major or Lieutenant Com-
mander ...............................
3,219
1,071
575
110
Lieutenant Colonel or Com-
mander ...............................
1,524
520
636
Colonel or Navy Captain .......
372
188
274
25’’.
SEC. 414. FORCE STRUCTURE ALLOWANCE FOR ARMY NA-
TIONAL GUARD.
(a) MINIMUM
FORCE
STRUCTURE
LEVEL.—The
force structure allowance for the Army National Guard of
the United States for fiscal year 1994 shall be not less
than 420,000.
(b) FORCE STRUCTURE ALLOWANCE DEFINED.—
For purposes of this section, the force structure allowance
for a reserve component is the allowance prescribed for
that reserve component by the Secretary of the military
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department concerned pursuant to section 413 of the Na-
tional Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993
(Public Law 102–484; 106 Stat. 2400).
SEC. 415. PERSONNEL LEVEL FOR NAVY CRAFT OF OPPOR-
TUNITY (COOP) PROGRAM.
(a) FISCAL YEAR 1994.—The Secretary of the Navy
shall ensure that none of the end strength reduction pro-
jected for the Naval Reserve in this Act shall be derived
from personnel authorizations assigned to the Craft of Op-
portunity mission.
(b) PERMANENT STAFFING LEVEL.—The number of
personnel authorizations assigned to the Craft of Oppor-
tunity mission shall be maintained during fiscal year 1994
and thereafter at not less than the level in effect on Sep-
tember 30, 1991.
Subtitle C—Military Training
Student Loads
SEC. 421. AUTHORIZATION OF TRAINING STUDENT LOADS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—For fiscal year 1994, the compo-
nents of the active and reserve Armed Forces are author-
ized average military training student loads as follows:
(1) The Army, 75,220.
(2) The Navy, 45,269.
(3) The Marine Corps, 22,753.
(4) The Air Force, 33,439.
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Staff College, and the Marine Corps Command and
Staff College.
Subtitle D—Authorization of
Appropriations
SEC. 431. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR MILI-
TARY PERSONNEL.
There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the
Department of Defense for military personnel for fiscal
year 1994 a total of $70,671,147,000. The authorization
in the preceding sentence supersedes any other authoriza-
tion of appropriations (definite or indefinite) for such pur-
pose for fiscal year 1994.
TITLE V—MILITARY PERSONNEL
POLICY
Subtitle A—Active Components
SEC. 501. YEARS OF SERVICE FOR ELIGIBILITY FOR SEPA-
RATION PAY FOR REGULAR OFFICERS INVOL-
UNTARILY DISCHARGED.
(a) PERIOD
OF SERVICE REQUIRED
FOR ELIGI-
BILITY.—Section 1174(a)(1) of title 10, United States
Code, is amended by striking out ‘‘five’’ and inserting in
lieu thereof ‘‘six’’.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—(1) Except as provided in
paragraph (2), the amendment made by subsection (a)
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shall apply with respect to any regular officer who is dis-
charged after the date of the enactment of this Act.
(2) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall not
apply with respect to an officer who on the date of the
enactment of this Act has five or more, but less than six,
years of active service in the Armed Forces.
SEC. 502. EXTENSION OF ELIGIBILITY FOR VOLUNTARY
SEPARATION INCENTIVE AND SPECIAL SEPA-
RATION BENEFITS PROGRAMS.
Sections 1174a(c)(2) and 1175(d)(1) of title 10,
United States Code, are amended by striking out ‘‘Decem-
ber 5, 1991’’ and inserting in lieu thereof ‘‘the date of
the enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act
for Fiscal Year 1994’’.
SEC. 503. ELIGIBILITY FOR INVOLUNTARY SEPARATION
BENEFITS.
Section 1141 of title 10, United States Code, is
amended by striking out ‘‘September 30, 1990’’ and in-
serting in lieu thereof ‘‘September 30, 1991’’.
SEC. 504. TWO-YEAR EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY FOR TEM-
PORARY 
PROMOTION 
OF 
CERTAIN 
NAVY
LIEUTENANTS.
(a) EXTENSION.—Section 5721(f) of title 10, United
States Code, is amended by striking out ‘‘September 30,
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1993’’ and inserting in lieu thereof ‘‘September 30,
1995’’.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by
subsection (a) shall take effect as of September 30, 1993.
SEC. 505. OFFICERS INELIGIBLE FOR CONSIDERATION BY
EARLY RETIREMENT BOARDS.
Section 638(e)(2)(B) of title 10, United States Code,
is amended—
(1) by inserting ‘‘(i)’’ after ‘‘grade and competi-
tive category’’;
(2) by inserting ‘‘(ii)’’ after ‘‘of this title, or’’;
and
(3) by striking out the comma after ‘‘any provi-
sion of law’’.
SEC. 506. REMEDY FOR INEFFECTIVE COUNSELING OF OF-
FICERS 
DISCHARGED 
FOLLOWING 
SELEC-
TION BY EARLY DISCHARGE BOARDS.
(a) PROCEDURE FOR REVIEW.—(1) The Secretary of
each military department shall establish a procedure for
the review of the individual circumstances of an officer de-
scribed in paragraph (2) who is discharged, or who the
Secretary concerned approves for discharge, following the
report of a selection board convened by the Secretary to
select officers for separation.
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(2) This section applies in the case of any officer (in-
cluding a warrant officer) who, having been offered the
opportunity to be discharged or otherwise separated from
active duty through the programs provided under section
1174a and 1175 of title 10, United States Code, elected
not to accept such discharge or separation.
(b) APPLICATION.—A review under this section shall
be conducted in any case submitted to the Secretary con-
cerned by application from the officer or former officer
under regulations prescribed by the Secretary.
(c) PURPOSE OF REVIEW.—(1) The review under this
section shall be designed to evaluate the effectiveness of
the counseling of the officer before the convening of the
board to ensure that the officer was properly informed
that selection for discharge or other separation from active
duty was a potential result of being within the group of
officers to be considered by the board and that the officer
was not improperly informed that such selection in that
officer’s personal case was unlikely.
(2) The Secretary shall consider each case on its mer-
its, but shall make a finding of ineffective counseling if
an individual was instructed by an official source before
the convening of the board that the officer’s risk of dis-
charge was reduced by the quality of the officer’s record
or by an expected limitation on the number of discharges
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from the officer’s occupational skill category, branch,
corps, or other administrative grouping of officers.
(3) For purposes of this subsection, the term ‘‘official
source’’ means any office or individual within a military
department that could reasonably be expected to provide
information on an individual personnel record or personnel
policy.
(d) REMEDY.—Upon a finding of ineffective counsel-
ing under subsection (c), the Secretary shall provide the
officer the opportunity to participate, at the officer’s op-
tion, in any one of the following programs:
(1) The Special Separation Benefits Programs
under section 1174a of title 10, United States Code.
(2) The Voluntary Separation Incentive pro-
gram under section 1175 of such title.
(3) The Temporary Early Retirement Authority
as authorized by section 4403 of the National De-
fense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 (Pub-
lic Law 102–484, October 23, 1992).
The officer must meet all eligibility criteria for the pro-
gram selected.
(e) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section shall apply with
respect to officers separated after September 30, 1990.
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Subtitle B—Reserve Components
SEC. 511. EXPANSION OF SELECTED RESERVE CALL-UP PE-
RIOD FROM 90 DAYS TO 180 DAYS.
Section 673b of title 10, United States Code, is
amended—
(1) by striking out ‘‘90 days’’ in subsection (a)
and inserting in lieu thereof ‘‘180 days’’; and
(2) by striking out ‘‘90 additional days’’ in sub-
section (i) and inserting in lieu thereof ‘‘180 addi-
tional days’’.
SEC. 512. NUMBER OF FULL-TIME RESERVE PERSONNEL
WHO MAY BE ASSIGNED TO ROTC DUTY.
Section 690 of title 10, United States Code, is
amended by striking out ‘‘may not exceed 200’’ and insert-
ing in lieu thereof ‘‘may not exceed 275’’.
SEC. 513. REPEAL OF MANDATED REDUCTION IN ARMY RE-
SERVE COMPONENT FULL-TIME MANNING
END STRENGTH.
Section 412 of the National Defense Authorization
Act for Fiscal Year 1991 (Public Law 101–510; 10 U.S.C.
261 note) is amended by striking out subsections (b) and
(c).
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SEC. 514. TWO-YEAR EXTENSION OF CERTAIN RESERVE OF-
FICER MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS.
(a) GRADE DETERMINATION AUTHORITY FOR CER-
TAIN RESERVE MEDICAL OFFICERS.—Sections 3359(b)
and 8359(b) of title 10, United States Code, are each
amended by striking ‘‘September 30, 1993’’ and inserting
in lieu thereof ‘‘September 30, 1995’’.
(b) PROMOTION AUTHORITY FOR CERTAIN RESERVE
OFFICERS SERVING ON ACTIVE DUTY.—Sections 3380(d)
and 8380(d) of such title are each amended by striking
out ‘‘September 30, 1993’’ and inserting in lieu thereof
‘‘September 30, 1995’’.
(c) YEARS OF SERVICE FOR MANDATORY TRANSFER
TO THE RETIRED RESERVE.—Section 1016(d) of the De-
partment of Defense Authorization Act, 1984 (10 U.S.C.
3360 note) is amended by striking out ‘‘September 30,
1993’’ and inserting in lieu thereof ‘‘September 30,
1995’’.
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—(1) The amendments made
by this section shall take effect as of September 30, 1993.
(2) If the date of the enactment of this Act is after
September 30, 1993, the Secretary of the Army or the
Secretary of the Air Force, as appropriate, shall provide,
in the case of a Reserve officer appointed to a higher grade
on or after the date of the enactment of this Act under
an appointment described in paragraph (3), that the date