An Act relating to the Reserve components of the Armed Forces of the United States
PL 82-476 (H.R.5426), enacted 07/09/1952

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Public Law 476 
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CHAPTER608 
AN A C T 
Relating to the reserve components of the Armed Forces of the United States. 
Be it ermcted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ 
SHORT TITLE 
. 
That this Act may be cited as the "Armed Forces Reserve Act of 1952". 
TABLE OF CONTENTS 
Sections 
Part 
I. Definitions 
101 
Part 
II. Reserve components generally 
201-259 
Chapter 1. Mission and general organization 
201-216 
Chapter 2. Appointments and enlistments 
217-232 
Chapter 3. Duty and release from duty 
233-239 
Chapter 4. Pay, allowances, and benefits 
240-245 
Chapter 5. Civil employment 
246-247 
Chapter 6. Separation 
248-249 
Chapter 7. Administration 
250-259 
Part 
III. Reserve components of the Army 
301-304 
Part 
IV. Reserve components of the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast 
Guard 
401-414 
Part 
V. Naval Militia 
501-504 
Part 
VI. Reserve components of the Air Force 
601-603 
Part 
VII. National Guard of the United States and the Air National 
Guard of the United States 
701-714 
Part VIII. Appropriations, repeals, amendments, 
and 
miscellaneous 
provisions 
801-813 
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PART I—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 101. When used in this Act— 
Definitions. 
(a) "Duty" means military service of any nature under orders or 
authorization issued by competent authority, 
(b) "Active duty" means full-time duty in the active military service 
of the United States, other than active duty for training. 
(c) "Active duty for training" means full-time duty in the active 
military service of the United States for training purposes. 
(d) "Inactive-duty training" means any of the training, instruction, 
duty, appropriate duties, or equivalent training, instruction, duty, ap-
propriate duties, or hazardous duty, performed with or without com-
pensation by members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces 
of the United States as may be prescribed by the appropriate Secre-
tary pursuant to section 501 of the Career Compensation Act of 
63 sut^ 825. 
1949, as amended, or any other provision of law, and in addition thereto use 143, 154! 37 
includes the performance of special additional duties, as may be author- "^^ ^°^* 
ized by competent authority, by such members on a voluntary basis in 
connection with the prescribed training or maintenance activities of 
the unit to which the members are assigned. 
Work or study per-
formed by such members of the reserve components in connection 
with correspondence courses of the Armed Forces of the United States 
shall be deemed inactive-duty training for which compensation is 
not authorized under the provisions of section 501 of the Career Com-
pensation Act of 1949, as amended. 
Any inactive-duty training per-
formed by members of the National Guard of the United States or 
of the Air National Guard of the United States, while in their status 
as members of the National Guard or Air National Guard of the 
several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia pursuant 
to section 92 of the National Defense Act, as amended, or pursuant 
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to any other provision of law, shall be deemed to be inactive-duty 
training in the service of the United States as members of one of the 
reserve components specified in section 202 of this Act. 
(e) "Armed Forces of the United States" means the Army, Navy, 
Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, including all components 
thereof. 
(f) "Member of a reserve component" means a person appointed or 
enlisted as a Reserve of an Armed Force of the United States or a 
person who acquires such status by transfer pursuant to law to any of 
the reserve components specified in section 202 of this Act: Provided^ 
That no person shall be a member of the National Guard of the United 
States or the Air National Guard of the United States unless he first 
be duly enlisted or appointed in the National Guard or the Air National 
Guard of the appropriate State, Territory, or the District of Colum-
bia, pursuant to law. 
(g) "Officer" unless otherwise specified, means a commissioned or 
V.'arrant officer. 
(h) "Appropriate Secretary" means— 
(1) the Secretary of the Army with respect to the Army; 
(2) the Secretary of the Navy with respect to the Navy and 
Marine Corps and, when the Coast Guard is operating as a service 
in the Navy, the Coast Guard; 
(3) the Secretary of the Air Force with respect to the Air Force; 
or 
(4) the Secretary of the Treasury with respect to the Coast 
Guard, when the Coast Guard is operating as a service in the 
Trer.sury Department. 
(i) "Competent authority" means any authority designated by the 
appropriate Secretary. 
(j) "Partial mobilization" means that action taken by the Con-
gress or the President pursuant to any provision of law, to effect the 
entry into the active military service of the United States of such 
units and members thereof, or of such members not assigned to units 
organized for the purpose of serving as such, of any reserve com-
ponent of the Armed Forces of the United States as are required to 
effect a limited expansion of the active Armed Forces of the United 
States. 
PART II—RESERVE COMPONENTS 
GENERALLY 
CHAPTER 1—MISSION AND GENERAL ORGANIZATION 
SEC. 201. (a) The Congress hereby declares that the reserve com-
ponents of the Armed Forces of the United States are maintained 
for the purpose of providing trained units and qualified individuals 
to be available for active duty in the Armed Forces of the United 
States in time of war or national emergency, and at such other times 
as the national security may require, to meet the requirements of the 
Armed Forces of the United States in excess of those of the Regular 
components thereof, during and after the period needed for procure-
ment and training of additional trained units and qualified in-
dividuals to achieve the planned mobilization. 
(b) The Congress further declares, in accordance with our tradi-
tional military policy as expressed in the National Defense Act of 
39 Stat. 166. 
1916, as amended, that it is essential that the strength and organiza-
note. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ *
" tion of the National Guard, and the Air National Guard, as an in-
tegral part of the first line defenses of this Nation, be at all times 
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maintained and assured. It is the intent of the Congress that when-
ever Congress shall determine that units and organizations are needed 
for the national security in excess of those of the Regular components 
of the ground forces and the air forces, the National Guard of the 
United States, and the Air National Guard of the United States, 
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or such part thereof as may be necessary, together with such units of 
the other reserve components as are necessary for a balanced force, 
shall be ordered into the active military service of the United States 
and continued therein so long as such necessity exists. 
SEC. 202. The reserve components are— 
(a) The National Guard of the United States; 
(b) The Army Reserve; 
(c) The Naval Reserve; 
(d) The Marine Corps Reserve; 
(e) The Air National Guard of the United States; 
(f) The Air Force Reserve; and 
(g) The Coast Guard Reserve. 
SEC. 20S. The maximum numerical strength of each of the reserve 
components referred to in section 202 of this Act shall be as authorized 
by the Congress, or, in the absence of such authorization, shall be 
fixed by the President. 
SEC. 204. There shall be within each of the Armed Forces of the 
United States a Ready Reserve, a Standby Reserve, and a Retired 
Reserve, and each member of the reserve components shall be placed 
in one of these categories. 
SEC. 205. (a) The Ready Reserve consists of those units or members 
of the reserve components, or both, who are liable for active duty 
either in time of war, in time of national emergency declared by the 
Congress or proclaimed by the President, or when otherwise author-
ized by law. 
(b) The authorized aggregate personnel strength of the Ready 
Reserve shall not exceed a total of one million five hundred thousand. 
SEC. 206. (a) The Standby Reserve consists of those units or members 
of the reserve components (other than members in the Retired Re-
serve), or both, who are liable for active duty only in time of war 
or national emergency declared by the Congress, or when otherwise 
authorized by law. 
(b) Except in time of war, or unless otherwise authorized by Con-
gress— (1) no unit of the Standby Reserve organized for the purpose 
of serving as such nor the members thereof shall be ordered to active 
duty unless the appropriate Secretary (with the approval of the 
Secretary of Defense in the case of a Secretary of a military depart-
ment) determines that adequate numbers of the required types of 
units of the Ready Reserves-are not readily available, and (2) no other 
member of the Standby Reserve shall be ordered to active duty as an 
individual without his consent unless the appropriate Secretary (with 
the approval of the Secretary of Defense in the case of a Secretary of 
a military department) determines that adequate numbers of quali-
fied members of the Ready Reserve in the required category are not 
readily available. 
SEC. 207. (a) The Retired Reserve consists of those members of the 
reserve components whose names are placed on reserve retired lists 
established pursuant to subsection (b) of this section. 
(b) In accordance with regulations prescribed by the appropriate 
Secretary, reserve retired lists shall be established upon which will be 
placed the names of those members of the reserve- components who 
make application therefor, if otherwise qualified. Such reserve retired 
lists shall be in addition to the Army of the United States Retired 
List, the Air Force of the United States Retired List, and the United 
States Naval Reserve Retired List authorized pursuant to section 301 
of the Army and Air Force Vitalization and Retirement Equalization 
Act of 1948, as amended. 
(c) Members in the Retired Reserve may, if qualified, be ordered to 
active duty involuntarily, but only in time of war or national emer-
gency declared by the Congress or when otherwise authorized by law. 
Reserve compo-
nents. 
Ready Reserve. 
S t a n d b y R e -
serve. 
Retired Reserve. 
62 Stat. 1087. 
10 u s e 
1036;; 
34 u s e 440h. 
93300 O - 53 - 34 
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Ready Reserve 
service. 
Transferees. 
SEC. 208. (a) Each person required to serve in a reserve component 
pursuant to law, shall, upon becoming a member of a reserve com-
ponent, be placed in the Ready Reserve of his Armed Force for the 
remainder of his required term of service unless eligible for transfer 
to the Standby Reserve under subsection (f) of this section. 
(b) Any member of the reserve components in an active status on the 
effective date of this Act may be placed in the Ready Raserve. 
(c) All units and members of the National Guard of the United 
States and Air National Guard of the United States shall be in the 
Ready Reserve of the Army and the Air Force, respectively. 
(d) All members of the reserve components assigned to units organ-
ized for the purpose of serving as such, which are designated as units 
in the Ready Reserve, shall be in the Ready Reserve. 
(e) Subject to such regulations as the appropriate Secretary may 
prescribe, any member of the reserve components may, at any time 
upon his request, be placed in the Ready Reserve if qualified. 
(f) Except in time of war or national emergency hereafter declared 
by the Congress, any member of the reserve components who is not 
serving on active duty in the Armed Forces of the United States shall, 
upon his request, be transferred to the Standby Reserve for the 
remainder of his term of service— 
(1) if he has served on active duty in the Armed Forces of the 
United States for not less than a total of five years; 
(2) if, having served on active duty in the Armed Forces of the 
United States for a total of less than five years, he has satis-
factorily participated, as determined by the appropriate Secre-
tary, in an accredited training program in the Ready Reserve for 
a period which when added to his period of active duty in the 
Armed Forces of the United States totals not less than five years 
or such lesser period of time as the appropriate Secretary (with 
the approval of the Secretary of Defense in the case of a Secre-
tary of a Military Department) may prescribe in the case of 
satisfactory participation in such accredited training programs 
as the appropriate Secretary may designate; 
(3) if he has served on active duty in the Armed Forces of the 
United States for not less than twelve months between December 
7,1941, and September 2,1945, and, in addition thereto, has served 
on active duty in the Armed Forces of the United States for not 
less than twelve months subsequent to June 25, 1950; or 
(4) if he has served as a member of one or more reserve com-
ponents subsequent to September 2, 1945, for not less than eight 
years. 
(g) No member of the National Guard of the United States or Air 
National Guard of the United States shall be transferred to the 
Standby Reserve without the consent of the governor or other appro-
priate authority of the State, Territory, or District of Columbia 
corcerned. 
(h) Subsection (f) of this section shall not apply to any member 
of the reserve components in the Ready Reserve while serving under 
an agreement to remain therein for a stated period. 
(i) Subject to subsection (g) of this section, any member of the 
reserve components in the Ready Reserve may be transferred into 
the Standby Reserve, or into the Retired Reserve if qualified and if ho 
makes application therefor, in accordance with such regulations as 
tlie appropriate Secretary (with the approval of the Secretary of 
Defense in the case of a Secretary of a Military Department) may 
prescribe. 
SEC. 209. (a) A person transferred to a reserve component of an 
Armed Force of the United States pursuant to the Universal Military 
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Training and Service Act, as amended, shall, if qualified and accepted, 
be permitted to enlist or accept an appointment in such Armed t'orce 
of the United States as he may elect (except that consent of the appro-
priate Secretaries shall be required for enlistment or appointment as 
a Reserve of another Armed Force of the United States) and to 
participate in such programs as are authorized for such Armed 
Force of the United States. 
Any such person who enlists or is 
appointed in an Armed Force of the United States shall be req^uired 
to perform the remaining period of his required term of service in 
the Armed Force of the United States in which such enlistment or 
appointment is made, or in any other Armed Force of the United 
States in which he subsequently enlists or is appointed. All periods 
of such participation shall be credited against total periods of obli-
gated service imposed by the Universal Military Training and Serv-
ice Act, as amended, but no period of time shall be credited more than 
once. 
(b) Nothing in this section shall be construed to reduce, limit, or 
modify any period of service which any person may undertake to per-
form pursuant to any enlistment or appointment or agreement, includ-
ing an agreement entered into prior to, or at the time of, entering a 
program authorized by an Armed Force of the United States. 
SEC. 210. All members of the reserve components who are not in the 
Ready or Retired Reserve shall be in the Standby Reserve, 
SEC. 211. (a) Within the Standby Reserve, an inactive status list 
shall be maintained. 
When deemed by competent authority to be in 
the best interests of the service concerned, members in the Standby 
Reserve who are not required to remain members of a reserve com-
ponent and who are unable to participate in prescribed training may, 
if qualified, be transferred to the inactive status list, in accordance with 
regulations prescribed by the appropriate Secretary. 
Such regula-
tions shall provide for the return of such members to an active status 
under such conditions as the appropriate Secretary shall prescribe. 
(b) Members of the reserve components in an inactive status shall 
not be eligible for pay, promotion, or award of retirement point credits 
under Title III of the Army and Air Force Vitalization and Retire-
ment Equalization Act of 1948, as amended. 
SEC. 212. (a) Each member of the reserve components shall be in 
an active, inactive, or retired status. 
(b) Members in the reserve components shall be in an active status, 
except those on an inactive status list, members in the Retired Reserve, 
and those assigned to the inactive National Guard. 
(c) Members of the reserve components on an inactive status list 
and members assigned to the inactive National Guard shall be in an 
inactive status. 
(d) Members of the Retired Reserve shall be in a retired status. 
SEC. 213. (a) Every person who is a member of a reserve com-
ponent on the effective date of this Act shall be deemed, without further 
action, to retain his active, inactive, or retired status in his reserve 
component. 
Any such member in an honorary Reserve status or an 
honorary Retired Reserve status when this Act takes effect shall be 
placed in the Retired Reserve of the appropriate Armed Force of the 
United States. 
(b) Any person who is on the honorary retired list of the Naval 
Reserve or the Marine Corps Reserve when this Act takes effect shall 
be placed in the Retired Reserve of the appropriate Armed Force of 
the United States. 
SEC. 214. Except in the case of the National Guard of the United 
States and the Air National Guard of the United States, each reserve 
component shall be divided into training categories according to the 
62 Stat. 6 0 4; 65 
Stat. 75. 
50 USCapp. 451. 
S t a n d b y 
R e -
serve. 
Inactive s t a t us 
list. 
62 Stat. 1087. 
10 u s e 
1 0 3 6 -
1 0 3 6 1 ; 34 US C 
440h-440q. 
Retention of sta-
tus. 
T r a i n i n g cate-
gories. 
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O f f i c e r candi-
dates. 
N u m e r i 
strength. 
Promotion. 
Precedence. 
Qualif ic ations. 
types and degrees of training including the number and duration of 
drills or equivalent duties to be completed in stated periods of time, 
as the appropriate Secretary prescribes. 
The designation of such 
training categories shall be the same for each Armed Force of the 
United States and the same within the Keady Reserve and the Standby 
Reserve. 
SEC. 215. (a) Within such numbers as may be prescribed by the 
appropriate Secretary, enlisted members of the reserve components 
may, with their consent, be selected for training as officer candidates, 
and members so selected shall be designated as officer candidates for 
the period of such training: Provided^ That when not in the active 
military service of the United States, no member of the National Guard 
of the United States or Air National Guard of the United States shall 
be so selected, or designated, without the consent of the governor or 
other appropriate authority of the State, Territory, or District of 
Columbia concerned. 
(b) Subject to any limitations imposed on the authorized numerical 
strength of each reserve component, the numbers of officers and en-
listed personnel authorized in the various ranks, grades, and ratings 
shall be the numbers determined by the appropriate Secretary to be 
necessary to provide for planned mobilization requirements. 
The 
appropriate Secretary shall review such determinations not less than 
once annually and revise them as he deems necessary. No member of 
a reserve component shall be involuntarily reduced in his permanent 
rank, grade, or rating as a result of such a determination. 
SEC. 216, (a) The appropriate Secretary shall establish an adequate 
and equitable system for the promotion of members of the reserve 
components in an active status. Such promotion system shall, insofar 
as practicable, be similar to that provided for members of the Regular 
component of the appropriate Armed Force of the United States. 
Promotion policies for officers of the reserve components shall be based 
upon the mobilization requirements of the appropriate Armed Force 
of the United States in order to provide qualified officers in each 
grade, at ages suitable to their assignments and in numbers commen-
surate with mobilization needs. In order that vigorous reserve forces 
)nay be maintained, necessary leadership encouraged, and a steady 
flow of promotion provided, such promotion systems shall provide 
for forced attrition to the extent necessary. 
(b) The relative precedence of Reserve officers and Regular officers 
shall be determined in accordance with their respective dates of rank 
in grade. 
CHAPTER 2—APPOINTMENTS AND ENLISTMENTS 
SEC. 217. (a) Subject to the limitation that no person, other than a 
person who has had prior service in the Armed Forces of the United 
States or the National Security Training Corps, shall be appointed or 
enlisted as a Reserve in the Armed Forces of the United States who is 
not a citizen of the United States, its Territories or possessions, or 
who has not made a declaration of intent to become a citizen thereof, 
the appropriate Secretary shall, except as otherwise provided by law, 
prescribe physical, mental, moral, professional, and age qualifications 
for appointment or enlistment of Reserve members of the Armed 
Forces of the United States. 
No person shall be appointed as a 
Reserve officer in any of the Armed Forces of the United States who is 
under the age of eighteen years. 
(b) Women may be appointed or enlisted as Reserves in the Armed 
Forces of the United States for service in the Army Reserve, the 
Naval Reserve, the Marine Corps Reserve, and the Air Force Reserve, 
as appropriate, in the same grades, ranks, and ratings, as are author-
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ized for women in the Regular component of the appropriate Armed 
Force of the United States. Women may be appointed or enlisted 
in the Coast Guard Reserve as provided in section 762, title 14, United 
States Code. Any female former officer or enlisted woman of an 
Armed Force of the United States may, if otherwise qualified, be 
appointed or enlisted as a Reserve in that Armed Force of the United 
States in the highest rank, grade, or rating satisfactorily held by her 
on active dut3^ 
(c) Except in the case of Adjutants General and Assistant 
Adjutants General of the several States, Territories, and the District 
of Columbia, a person who has not held an appointment as a commis-
sioned officer in any of the Armed Forces of the United States, or any 
component thereof, may not be appointed as a commissioned officer in 
a grade higher than major ol* lieutenant commander in any of the 
Armed Forces of the United States except upon the recommendation 
of a board of officers convened by the appropriate Secretary. 
SEC. 218. The President, by and with the advice and consent of the 
Senate, shall make all appointments of Reserves in general or flag officer 
grades. 
SEC. 219. The President shall make all appointments of Reserves in 
commissioned grades below general or flag officer grades. 
SEC. 220. The appropriate Secretary shall make all appointments of 
Reserves in warrant officer grades. 
SEC. 221. All Reserve commissioned officers shall hold appointment 
during the pleasure of the President. 
SEC. 222. (a) To become an officer of a reserve component an indi-
vidual shall be appointed as a Reserve commissioned officer or Reserve 
warrant officer of an Armed Force of the United States in a grade 
corresponding to one of the grades of the Regular component of that 
Armed Force of the United States and subscribe to the oath prescribed 
by section 1757 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (5 U. S. C. 16) : 
Provided, That no person shall become a member of the National Guard 
of the United States or Air National Guard of the United States in 
a commissioned officer or warrant officer grade, hereunder, unless he 
first be appointed to and federally recognized in the same commissioned 
or warrant officer grade in the National Guard or Air National Guard 
in the appropriate State, Territory, or the District of Columbia and 
subscribe to the oath provided in section 73 of the National Defense 
Act, as amended. 
(b) Each person appointed in a commissioned officer grade as a 
Reserve in an Armed Force of the United States shall be commissioned 
as a Reserve officer in the Army of the United States, the United States 
Navy, the United States Marine Corps, the United States Air Force, 
or the United States Coast Guard, as appropriate. 
SEC. 223. Reserve warrant officers shall hold appointment during the 
pleasure of the appropriate Secretary. 
SEC. 224. After the date of enactment of this Act, all appointments 
of Reserve officers shall be for an indefinite term. All officers holding 
appointments on the date of enactment in the National Guard of the 
United States, or the Officers' Reserve Corps, or the Naval Reserve, or 
the Marine Corps Reserve,* or the Air National Guard of the United 
States, or the Air Force Reserve, or the Coast Guard Reserve shall be 
considered to hold such appointments as Reserve officers, as the case 
may be, in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, or Coast Guard, 
as appropriate, and in the case of commissioned officers to hold com-
missions as provided in section 222 (b) of this Act. Each such officer 
not holding an appointment for an indefinite term on the date of 
enactment of this Act shall be given an appointment for an indefinite 
term in lieu of his current appointment if such officer, after written 
63 Stat. 554. 
Restriction. 
Officer grades. 
39 Stat. 201. 32 
use 112. 
Indefinite term of 
appointment. 
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Physical exami-
nations. 
Physically di s-
qualified pers o n-
nel. 
T e r m of enlist-
ment. 
Enlistments. 
64 Stat. 146. 
50 u s e 737. 
39 Stat. 201. 
32 u s e 123. 
D u a l m e m b er-
ship. 
notification by competent authority which shall be given within six 
months from the effective date of this Act, shall agree in writing to 
have his current appointment continued for an indefinite term. 
In 
the event such officer does not so agree in writing, the term of his 
present appointment shall not be changed by this section. All persons 
now enlisted in the National Guard of the United States, or the 
Enlisted Reserve Corps, or the Naval Reserve, or the Marine Corps 
Reserve, or the Air National Guard of the United States, or the Air 
Force Reserve, or the Coast Guard Reserve shall be considered to be 
enlisted as Reserves in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, or 
Coast Guard, as appropriate, without change in the periods of their 
current enlistments. 
SEC. 225. When not on active duty all members of the reserve com-
ponents, except those in the Retired Reserve, shall be given physical 
examinations at least once every four years, or more often as the appro-
priate Secretary deems necessary, and shall be required to submit per-
sonal certificates of physical condition annually. 
SEC. 226. Except as otherwise provided by law, the appropriate 
Secretary may provide for the honorable discharge, or transfer to a 
retired status, of members of the reserve components who are found 
not physically qualified for active duty: Provided^ That no member of 
the National Guard of the United States or Air National Guard of 
the United States may be so transferred without the consent of the 
governor or other appropriate authority of the State, Territory, or 
District of Columbia concerned. In determining physical qualifica-
tions for active duty, due consideration shall be given to the character 
of the duty to which the member may be assigned in the event he 
should be ordered to active duty pursuant to law. 
SEC. 227. (a) Except as otherwise provided by law and subject to 
the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, enlisted members of 
the reserve components shall be enlisted for such periods as the appro-
priate Secretary prescribes. 
(b) Unless sooner terminated by the appropriate Secretary, all 
enlistments as Reserves in the Armed Forces of the United States, in 
force at the beginning of a war or national emergency hereafter 
declared by the Congress or entered into during the existence of such 
war or national emergency, which otherwise would expire, shall con-
tinue in force until six months after the termination of the war or 
national emergency, whichever is later. 
(c) In time of war or national emergency hereafter declared by the 
Congress, the period of service of any member of a reserve component 
who has been transferred thereto pursuant to law, unless sooner ter-
minated by the appropriate Secretary, shall, if such period of service 
otherwise would expire, be extended until six months after the termi-
nation of the war or national emergency, whichever is later. 
SEC. 228. To become an enlisted member of a reserve component an 
individual shall be enlisted as a Reserve of an Armed Force of the 
United States and subscribe to the oath prescribed by section 8 of the 
Act of May 5, 1950, as amended, or be transferred to a reserve com-
]Donent pursuant to law: Provided^ That no person shall become an 
enlisted member of the National Guard of the United States or Air 
National Guard of the United States, hereunder, unless he first be 
duly enlisted in the National Guard or Air National Guard of the 
appropriate State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, subscribe 
to the oath provided in section T
O of the National Defense Act, as 
amended, and is a member of a federally recognized unit or organiza-
tion thereof in the same grade. 
SEC. 229, Except as otherwise provided by this Act, no person shall 
be a member of more than one reserve component at the same time. 
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SEC. 230. (a) When an enlisted member of a reserve component is 
designated as an officer candidate for temporary service in such cate-
gory, his enlistment or period of service therein is extended by such 
period as he may remain in such officer candidate status beyond the 
normal expiration date thereof. 
(b) No person while designated an officer candidate pursuant to this 
Act shall participate in any Reserve Officer Training Corps program 
of the Armed Forces of the United States. 
SEC. 231. Any Reserve officer whose age exceeds the maximum age 
prescribed for his grade and classification may be separated, or 
retained in or transferred to an active, inactive, or, upon his applica-
tion, a retired status, as the appropriate Secretary may prescribe: 
Provided, That no officer of the National Guard of the United States 
or Air National Guard of the United States shall be so retained or 
transferred without the consent of the governor or other appropriate 
authority of the State, Territory, or the District of Columbia 
concerned. 
SEC. 232. Persons who are otherwise qualified but who have physical 
defects, \yhich as determined by the appropriate Secretary will not 
interfere with the performance of general or special duties to which 
they may be assigned, may be appointed or enlisted as Reserves in 
any of the Armed Forces of the United States. 
CHAPTER 3—DUTY AND RELEASE FROM DUTY 
SEG. 233. (a) In time of \yar or national emergency hereafter 
declared by the Congress, or when otherwise authorized by law, any 
unit and the members thereof, or any member not assigned to a unit 
organized for the purpose of serving as such, of any reserve component 
may, by competent authority, be ordered to active duty for the dura-
tion of the war or national emergency and for six months thereafter, 
but members on an inactive status list or in a retired status shall not 
be ordered to active duty without their consent unless the appropriate 
Secretary (with the approval of the Secretary of Defense in the case 
of a Secretary of a Military Department) determines that adequate 
numbers of qualified members of the reserve components in an active 
status or in the inactive National Guard in the required category are 
not readily available. 
(b) (1) In time of national emergency hereafter proclaimed by the 
President or when otherwise authorized by law, any unit and the 
members thereof, or any member not assigned to a unit organized for 
the purpose of serving as such, in the Ready Reserve of any reserve 
component may, by competent authority, be ordered to and required to 
perform active duty involuntarily for a period not to exceed twenty-
four consecutive months: Provided, That Congress shall determine the 
number of members of the reserve components necessary for the 
national security to be ordered to active duty, pursuant to this sub-
section prior to the exercise of the authority contained in this sub-
section. 
(2) It is the policy of the Congress in tiew of hardship situations 
developed by the Korean hostilities that in the interest of fair treat-
ment as between members in the Ready Reserve involuntarily recalled 
for duty, attention shall be given to the duration and nature of pre-
vious service, with the objective of assuring such sharing of hazardous 
exposure as the national security and the military requirement will 
reasonably permit, to family responsibilities, and to employment 
found to oe necessary to the maintenance of the national health, safety, 
or interest. The Secretary of Defense shall promulgate such policies 
and establish such procedures as may be required in his opinion to 
O f f i c e r candi-
date s. 
Age limitations. 
Limited service 
personnel. 
Active duty. 
Involuntary a c-
tive duty. 
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Annual training. 
Voluntary active 
duty. 
Notice. 
U t i l i z a t i o n of 
officers. 
Organized units. 
Training and ad-
mi n i s t r ation du-
ties, etc. 
carry out our intent here declared, and shall from time to time, and 
at least annually, report to the Committees on Armed Services of the 
Congress respecting the same. 
(c) At any time, any unit and the members thereof, or any membar 
not assigned to a unit organized for the purpose of serving as such, 
in an active status in any reserve component may, by competent 
authority, be ordered to and required to perform active duty or active 
duty for training, without his consent, for not to exceed fifteen days 
annually: Provided, That units and members of the National Guard 
of the United States or the Air National Guard of the United States 
shall not be ordered to or required to serve on active duty in the service 
of the United States pursuant to this subsection without the consent of 
the Governor of the State or Territory concerned, or the Commanding 
General of the District of Columbia National Guard. 
(d) A member of a reserve component may, by competent authority, 
be ordered to active duty or active duty for training at any time with 
his consent: Provided, That no member of the National Guard of the 
United States or Air National Guard of the United States shall be so 
ordered without the consent of the Governor or other appropriate 
authority of the State, Territory, or District of Columbia concerned. 
(e) A member of a reserve component ordered into the active mili-
tary service of the United States will be allowed a reasonable period 
of time between the date he is alerted for active duty and the date on 
which he is required to enter upon active duty. Such period shall be 
at least thirty days unless military conditions as determined by the 
appropriate Secretary do not permit. 
(f) In any expansion of the active Armed Forces of the United 
States which requires the ordering into the active military service 
involuntarily of individual officers of the reserve components who are 
not members of units organized for the purpose of serving as such, it 
shall be the policy to utilize to the greatest practicable extent the serv-
ices of qualified and available officers of the reserve components in all 
grades in accordance with the requirements of branch, grade, and 
specialty. 
(g) Insofar as practicable, in any expansion of the active Armed 
Forces of the United States which requires that units and members of 
the reserve components be ordered into the active military service of 
the United States, members of units organized and trained for the 
purpose of serving as a unit shall be ordered involuntarily into active 
duty only with their units. 
This shall not be interpreted as pro-
hibiting the reassignment of personnel of such units after being 
ordered into the active military service of the United States. 
SEC. 234, Members of the reserve components may with their consent, 
and in the case of the members of the National Guard of the United 
States and Air National Guard of the United States with the consent of 
the governor or other appropriate authority of the State, Territory, or 
District of Columbia concerned, be ordered to or retained on active 
duty to perform duties in connection with organizing, administering, 
recruiting, instructing, or training the reserve components. Hereafter, 
members ordered into the active military service of the United States 
under the provisions of this section shall be so ordered in the grade held 
by them in the Reserve of their Armed Force, and shall, while so serv-
ing, continue to be eligible for promotion in the Reserve of their Armed 
Force, if otherwise qualified. For the purpose of insuring that mem-
bers of the reserve components ordered to or retained on duty under 
this section receive periodic refresher training in the various cate-
gories for which individually qualified, the appropriate Secretary may 
order those members to duty with any of the Armed Forces of the 
United States or the components thereof, or otherwise as he sees fit. 
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SEC. 235. (a) In order that members of the reserve components may agreements. "*^ 
remain on or be ordered to active duty voluntarily for terms of service 
of definite duration, the appropriate Secretary may, except in time of 
war hereafter declared by the Congress, enter into standard written 
agreements with members of the reserve components for periods of 
active duty not to exceed five years. Upon expiration of an agreement 
for active duty, a new agreement may be effected pursuant to this 
section. Each agreement shall provide that the member shall not be 
released from active duty involuntarily during the period of the 
agreement— 
(1) by reason of a reduction in numerical strength of the mili-
tary personnel of the Armed Force of the United States concerned 
unless his release is in accordance with the recommendation of a 
board of officers appointed by competent authority to determine 
the members to be released from active duty under regulations 
prescribed by the appropriate Secretary; or 
(2) for reasons other than that prescribed in paragraph (1) 
above without an opportunity to be heard by a board of officers 
prior to such release, unless such release from active duty is pur-
suant to sentence of courts-martial, unexplained absence without 
leave of three months duration, or final conviction and sentence to 
confinement in a Federal or State penitentiary or correctional 
institution. 
(b) Any member involuntarily released from active duty prior to 
the expiration of the period of service under his agreement (except 
when such release is pursuant to sentence of courts-martial, or unex-
plained absence without leave of three months duration, or final con-
viction and sentence to confinement in a Federal or State penitentiary 
or correctional institution, or when such release is due to a physical 
disability resulting from the member's intentional misconduct or will-
ful neglect, or when the member is eligible for retirement pay or 
severance pay under any other provision of law, or when he is placed 
on a temporary disability retired list, or when he is released for the 
purpose of accepting an appointment or enlisting in a Regular com-
ponent) shall be entitled to receive an amount equal to one month's 
pay and allowances multiplied by the number of years (including any 
pro rata part thereof) remaining as the unexpired period of his agree-
ment for active duty, such amount to be in addition to any pay and 
allowances which he may otherwise be entitled to receive. Computa-
tion of amounts payable by reason of termination of each such agree-
ment shall be based on the basic pay, special pay, and allowances to 
which the member concerned is entitled at the time of his release from 
active duty. Fractions of a month less than fifteen days shall be dis-
regarded and fifteen days or more shall be counted as one month. 
(c) A member of a reserve component who enters into a written 
agreement under this section shall be obligated to serve for the full 
period of active duty specified in the written agreement. 
(d) No person shall be offered a written agreement under this sec-
tion unless the period of active duty specified in the agreement exceeds 
by at least twelve months any period of obligated or involuntary active 
duty to which he is otherwise liable. 
(e) Agreements entered into pursuant to this section shall be as uni-
form as practicable, and shall be subject to such standards and policies 
as the Secretary of Defense (and the Secretary of the Treasury for the 
Coast Guard when the Coast Guard is not operating as a service in the 
Navy) may prescribe. 
(f) This section shall be effective upon enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 236. In time of war or national emergency hereafter declared 
involuntary re-
by the Congress or in time of national emergency proclaimed by the 
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A s s i g ntnent to 
duties. 
Partial mobilize 
tion periods. 
Release from ac-
tive duty. 
President after the effective date of this Act, a member of a reserve 
component whose period of active duty expires under an agreement 
entered into pursuant to section 235 or this Act may be retained on 
active duty involuntarily in accordance with law. 
SEC. 237. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, members 
of the reserve components now or hereafter serving on active duty 
may, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the appropriate 
Secretary, be detailed or assigned to any duty authorized by law for 
officers and enlisted members of a Regular component of the Armed 
Forces of the United States. 
SEC. 238. When units or members of the reserve components are 
ordered to active duty during a period of partial mobilization, the 
appropriate Secretary shall continue to maintain mobilization forces 
by planning and budgeting to insure the continued organization and 
training of the reserve components not mobilized, and, consistent with 
the approved joint mobilization plans, to utilize to the fullest extent 
practicable the Federal facilities vacated by mobilized units. 
SEC. 239. (a) Except as otherwise provided by this Act, the appro-
priate Secretary may release any member of the reserve components 
from active duty or active duty for training at any time. 
(b) In time of war or national emergency hereafter declared by 
the Congress, or in time of national emergency hereafter proclaimed 
by the President, a member of a reserve component who is serving 
on active duty, shall not be released from active duty except on the 
approved recommendation of a board of officers convened by com-
petent authority if he requests such action: Provided^ That the pro-
visions of this subsection shall not be applicable to any Armed Force 
during a period of demobilization or reduction in strength of any 
such Armed Force. 
O f f i c e r candi-
dates. 
63 Stat. 802. 
37 u s e 231 note. 
Uniform a l l o w -
, 
, , 
CHAPTER 4—PAY, ALLOWANCES, AND BENEFITS 
SEC. 240. Subject to the provisions of this Act, members of the 
reserve components may be ordered to active duty, active duty for 
training, or other duty with pay and allowances as provided by law, 
or, with their consent, without pay. Duty without pay shall be 
counted for all purposes the same as like duty with pay. 
SEC. 241. Members of the reserve components retained or continued 
on active duty or active duty for training pursuant to law after the 
expiration of their term of service are entitled to pay and allowances 
while on such duty except to the extent that forfeiture thereof is 
adjudged by an approved sentence of a court-martial or nonjudicial 
punishment by a commanding officer, or unless otherwise in a non-
pay status pursuant to law. 
SEC. 242. When employed on active duty or on active duty for 
training with pay and when engaged in authorized travel to and 
from such duty, enlisted members of the reserve components desig-
nated as officer candidates under the provisions of section 215 (a) of 
this Act shall have the pay and allowances of their enlisted grade, 
but not less than the pay and allowances of pay grade E-2 under the 
Career Compensation Act of 1949, as amended. 
SEC. 243. (a) An officer of a reserve component or of the Army of 
the United States without component or the Air Force of the United 
States without component shall be entitled to an initial sum not to 
exceed $200 as reimbursement for the purchase of required uniforms 
and equipment, either— 
(1) upon first reporting for active duty for a period in excess 
of ninety days; or 
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(2) upon completion, as a member of a reserve component, of 
not less than fourteen days active duty or active duty for 
training; or 
(3) after the performance of fourteen periods of not less than 
two hours' duration each, of inactive-duty training as a member 
in the Ready Reserve of a reserve component: Promded, That 
only duty requiring the wearing of the uniform shall be counted 
for the purpose of this section: Provided further^ That any initial 
uniform reimbursement or allowance heretofore or hereafter 
received as an officer under the provisions of any other law shall 
be a bar to the entitlement for any initial sum authorized under 
the provisions of this section: And provided further^ That any 
individual who has served on active duty as an officer of a Regular 
component of the Armed Forces of the United States may not be 
qualified for entitlement under this section by duty performed 
within two years after separation from such Regular component. 
(b) An officer of a reserve component shall be entitled to an addi-
tional sum of not to exceed $50 for reimbursement for the purchase of 
required uniforms and equipment, upon completion of each period 
after the date of enactment of this Act of four years of satisfactory 
Federal service as prescribed in title III of the Army and Air Force 
Vitalization and Retirement Equalization Act of 1948, as amended, 
performed in an active status in a reserve component and which shall 
include at least twenty-eight days of active duty or active duty for 
training: Provided^ That any period of active duty or active duty for 
training for a period in excess of ninety days shall be excluded in 
determining the period of four years required for eligibility under 
this subsection: Provided further^ That a person who receives or has 
heretofore received a uniform reimbursement or allowance as an officer 
shall not be entitled to the reimbursement provided in this subsection 
until the expiration of not less than four years from the date of entitle-
ment to the last reimbursement or allowance: And provided 
further^ 
That, until four years after the date of enactment hereof, an officer 
may elect to receive the uniform reimbursement not to exceed $50 to 
which he may be entitled under existing regulations issued pursuant 
to section 302 of the Naval Reserve Act of 1938, as amended, or section 
11 of the Act of August 4,1942, as amended. 
(c) An officer of a reserve component or of the Army of the United 
States without component or of the Air Force of the United States 
without component entering on active duty or active duty for training 
on or after June 25,1950, shall be entitled, for each time of such entry 
or reentry on active duty or active duty for training of more than 
ninety days' duration to a further sum not to exceed $100 as reimburse-
ment for additional uniforms and equipment required on such duty: 
Provided^ That the reimbursement provided by this subsection shall 
not be payable to any officer who, under any provision of law, has 
received an initial uniform reimbursement or allowance in excess of 
$200 during his current tour of active duty or within a period of two 
years prior to entering on his current tour of active duty: Provided 
further^ That the reimbursement provided in this subsection shall not 
Ibe payable to any officer entering on active duty or active duty for 
training within two years after completing a previous period of active 
duty or active duty for training of more than ninety days' duration. 
(d) The receipt of a uniform and equipment reimbursement as an 
officer of one of the reserve components shall be a bar to entitlement 
to a uniform reimbursement upon transfer to or appointment in 
another, except where a different uniform is required: Provided^ That 
reimbursement for uniforms and equipment upon transfer to or 
appointment in another reserve component within the limits and 
62 Stat. 1087. 
10 u s e 
1 0 3 6 -
1 0 3 6 i ; 34 u s e 
440h-440q. 
52 Stat. 1180;56 
Stat. 738. 
34 U S e 8 5 5 a, 
850 j . 
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Rations. 
63 Stat. 825. 
37 u s e 301 and 
note. 
Equity of bene-
fits. 
under the conditions prescribed by subsections (a) and (c) of this 
section may be made in accordance with regulations approved by 
the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of the Treasury in the case 
of the Coast Guard when the Coast Guard is operating as a service 
in the Treasury Department. 
SEC. 244. Section 501 of the Career Compensation Act of 1949, as 
amended, is further amended, by substituting a comma for the colon 
immediately preceding the proviso in subsection (a) thereof, and 
inserting the following: "and additionally, in the discretion of the 
Secretary concerned, enlisted members of the above services shall be 
entitled to rations in kind, or a portion thereof, when the instruction 
or duty period or periods concerned total eight or more hours in any 
one calendar day:''. 
SEC. 245. (a) All provisions of law applicable to the Organized 
Keserve Corps or the Air Force Reserve, and to the members thereof 
and their dependents and beneficiaries, not inconsistent with the pro-
visions of this Act, shall be applicable to the Army Reserve and to 
the Air Force Reserve referred to in this Act, respectively, and to 
the members thereof and their dependents and beneficiaries. 
All 
provisions of law applicable to the Officers Reserve Corps and to the 
members thereof or to officers of the Air Force Reserve and their 
dependents and beneficiaries, not inconsistent with the provisions of 
this Act, shall be applicable to officers of the Army Reserve and the 
Air Force Reserve referred to in this Act, respectively, and their 
dependents and beneficiaries. 
All provisions of law applicable to 
the Enlisted Reserve Corps and to the members thereof or to enlisted 
members of the Air Force Reserve, and their dependents and bene-
ficiaries, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, shall be 
applicable to enlisted members of the Army Reserve and the Air 
Force Reserve referred to in this Act, respectively, and their depend-
ents and beneficiaries. 
(b) All provisions of law applicable to the Naval Reserve, Marine 
Corps Reserve, or the Coast Guard Reserve (other than temporary 
members of the Coast Guard Reserve), and to the members thereof 
and their dependents and beneficiaries, not inconsistent with the pro-
visions of this Act, shall be applicable to the Naval Reserve, Marine 
Corps Reserve, and the Coast Guard Reserve (other than temporary 
members of the Coast Guard Reserve) referred to in this Act, respec-
tively, and to the members thereof and their dependents and bene-
ficiaries. 
All provisions of law applicable to officers of the Naval 
Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve, or of the Coast Guard Reserve (other 
than temporary officers of the Coast Guard Reserve), and their depend-
ents and beneficiaries, not inconsistent with the provisions of this 
Act, shall be applicable to officers of the Naval Reserve, Marine Corps 
Reserve, and of the Coast Guard Reserve (other than temporary 
officers of the Coast Guard Reserve) referred to in this Act, respec-
tively, and their dependents and beneficiaries. 
All 
provisions 
of law applicable to enlisted members of the Naval Reserve, Marine 
Corps Reserve, or Coast Guard Reserve (other than temporary mem-
bers of the Coast Guard Reserve), and their dependents and bene-
ficiaries, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, shall be 
applicable to enlisted members of the Naval Reserve, Marine Corps 
Reserve, and of the Coast Guard Reserve (other than temporary 
members of the Coast Guard Reserve) referred to in this Act, 
respectively, and their dependents and beneficiaries. 
(c) All laws applicable to commissioned, warrant, or enlisted mem-
bers of the National Guard of the United States and the Air National 
Guard of the United States, and to their beneficiaries and dependents, 
not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, shall be applica-
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ble to commissioned, warrant, and enlisted members, respectively, 
of the National Guard of the United States and the Air National Guard 
of the United States referred to in this Act, and to their beneficiaries 
and dependents. 
CHAPTER 5—CIVIL EMPLOYMENT 
SEC. 246. When not on active duty, members of the reserve com-
ponents shall not be held or considered to be officers or employees 
of the United States, or persons holding any office of profit or trust or 
discharging any official function under or in connection with any 
department or agency of the United States, solely by reason of their 
appointments, oaths, commissions, or status as such, or any duties 
or functions performed or pay and allowances received as such. 
SEC. 247. Members of the reserve components, subject to the ap-
proval of the appropriate Secretary, may accept civil employment 
with and compensation therefor from any foreign government or 
any concern wiiich is controlled in whole or in part by a foreign gov-
ernment. 
CHAPTER 6—SEPARATION 
SEC. 248. Subject to the provisions of this Act, the discharge of com-
missioned officers of the reserve components shall be effected at the 
pleasure of the President, and the discharge of other members of the 
reserve components shall be in accordance with regulations promul-
gated by the appropriate Secretary. 
SEC. 249. (a) An officer of the reserve components who has completed 
three years of commissioned service shall not be involuntarily dis-
charged or separated except pursuant to the approved recommenda-
tion of a board of officers convened by competent authority or the 
approved sentence of a court-martial: Provided^ That this subsection 
shall not apply to separation effected under subsection (b) of this 
section or section 231 of this Act. 
(b) The President or the appropriate Secretary may drop from the 
rolls any member of the reserve components who has been absent 
without authority from his place of duty for a period of three months 
or more, or who, having been found guilty by the civil authorities 
of any offense, is finally sentenced to confinement in a Federal or 
State penitentiary or correctional institution. 
(c) A member of a reserve component discharged or separated for 
cause other than as specified in subsection (b) of this section shall 
be given a discharge under honorable conditions unless— 
(1) a discharge under conditions other than honorable is ef-
fected pursuant to the approved sentence of a court-martial or 
the approved findings of a board of officers convened by com-
petent authority, or 
(2) the member consents to a discharge under conditions other 
than honorable with waiver of court-martial or board proceed-
ings. 
CHAPTER 7—ADMINISTRATION 
; 
SEC. 250. There shall be no discrimination between and among mem-
bers of the Regular and reserve components in the administration of 
laws applicable to both Regulars and Reserves. 
SEC. 251. The Secretary of the Treasury with the concurrence of the 
Regulations. 
Secretary of the Navy, and, subject to such standards, policies, and 
procedures as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, the Sec-
retary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Secretary of 
the Air Force shall make and publish such regulations as he deter-
mines necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Insofar as 
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practicable, the regulations for all the reserve components shall be 
uniform. 
SEC. 252. Each of the Armed Forces of the United States shall have 
officer members of its reserve components on active duty, at the seat 
of the Government and at such headquarters as are charged with 
responsibility for reserve affairs, in addition to those authorized pur-
suant to the provisions of sections 5 and 81 of the National Defense 
3
2
-
3
8
^
^
3
^
2 use'66' ^^^^' ^^ amended, or any other provision of law, within such numbers 
171-176. 
' and in such grades and duty assignments as the appropriate Secre-
tary shall prescribe, to assist and participate in the preparation and 
administration of all policies and regulations affecting their reserve 
component. 
While so serving such officers shall be considered as addi-
tional numbers of the staff with which serving. 
SEC. 253. The appropriate Secret^ary shall detail such members of the 
Regular and reserve components as may be necessary for effectively 
developing, training, instructing, and administering the reserve com-
ponents. 
Boards. 
SEC. 254. (a) All boards convened for the appointment, promotion, 
demotion, involuntary release from active duty, discharge, or retire-
ment of members of the reserve components shall include appropriate 
numbers from the reserve components, as prescribed by the appropri-
ate Secretary in accordance with standards and policies established 
by the Secretary of Defense. 
(b) The members of all boards convened for selection for promo-
tion or for the discharge or demotion of members of the reserve com-
ponents shall be senior to the members under consideration, except 
that a member of a board serving in a legal advisory capacity may 
be junior to any person, other than a judge advocate or a law specialist, 
being considered and that a member of a board serving in a medical 
advisory capacity may be junior to any person, other than a medical 
officer, being considered. 
Supplies, etc. 
SEC. 255. (a) The appropriate Secretary shall make available to 
each reserve component such supplies, equipment, services, and facili-
ties of the Armed Forces of the United States as he may deem nec-
essary and advisable for the support and development of the reserve 
components. 
(b) The appropriate Secretary or his authorized representative may 
issue supplies and equipment of the appropriate Armed Force of the 
United States to the reserve components without charging the cost 
or value thereof, or any expenses in connection therewith, against 
or in any way affecting the appropriation provided for the reserve 
components: Provided^ That the appropriate Secretary finds it to be 
in the best interests of the United States to issue such equipment and 
supplies: And provided further^ That any such equipment and supplies 
so furnished may, pursuant to this section, be repossessed or redis-
tributed as the appropriate Secretary may prescribe. 
This subsec-
tion shall not apply to supplies and equipment issued to the National 
Guard and Air National Guard of the several States, Territories, and 
35^^49'^^ 21, 22, ^]^g District of Columbia, under sections 67 and 84, National Defense 
Act, as amended, but applies to supplies and equipment issued in 
addition thereto. 
(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to repeal, limit, or 
modify in any manner t\v^ provisions of sections 67 and 84, National 
Defense Act, as amended. 
64 Stat. 829. 
(d) It is the seusc of the Congress that the National Defense Facili-
0 use 881 note. ^^^^ ^^^ ^^ l^^O bc autliorizcd to be implemented immediately upon the 
enactment of this Act. 
Responsibility 
QEC. 256. (a) The Secretary of Defense shall designate an Assistant 
ilas. ^^^'^^^^ Secretary of Defense who shall, in addition to other dutievS, have the 
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principal responsibility for all Reserve alFairs of the Department of 
Defense. The Secretary of each military department and, when the 
Coast Guard is not operating as a service in the Navy, the Secretary of 
the Treasury, or, as such Secretary may prescribe for his department, 
the Under Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of such department, 
shall, in addition to other duties, have the principal responsibility for 
supervision of all activities of the reserve components under the juris-
diction of that department. 
(b) The Secretary of each military department and, when the Coast 
Guard is not operating as a service in the Navy, the Secretary of the 
Treasury shall designate a general or flag officer of each Armed Force 
of the United States therein who shall be directly responsible for 
reserve affairs to the Chief of Staff of the Army, the Chief of Naval 
Operations, the Commandant of the Marine Corps, the Chief of Staff 
of the Air Force, and the Commandant of the Coast Guard, as appro-
priate. 
Nothing in this subsection shall be deemed to curtail or 
infringe upon the present missions and functions of the Chief of the 
National Guard Bureau. 
SEC. 257. (a) There is hereby established in the Office of the Secre-
tary of Defense a Reserve Forces Policy Board consisting of— 
(i) a civilian chairman appointed by the Secretary of Defense; 
(ii) the Secretary, the Under Secretary, or an Assistant Secre-
tary of each military department designated pursuant to section 
256 (a) of this Act; 
(iii) one Regular officer from each military department desig-
nated by the appropriate Secretary; 
(iv) four Reserve officers appointed by the Secretary of Defense 
upon recommendation of the Secretary of the Army, two of whom 
shall be members of the National Guard of the United States and 
two of whom shall be members of the Army Reserve; 
(v) four Reserve officers appointed by the Secretary of Defense 
upon recommendation of the Secretary of the Navy, two of whom 
shall be members of the Naval Reserve and two of whom shall be 
members of the Marine Corps Reserve; 
(vi) four Reserve officers appointed by the Secretary of Defense 
upon recommendation of the Secretary of the Air Force, two of 
whom shall be members of the Air National Guard of the United 
States and two of whom shall be members of the Air Force 
Reserve; and 
(vii) a Reserve officer of general or flag officer grade appointed 
by the chairman of the Board with the approval of the Secretary 
of Defense, who shall act as military adviser to the chairman and 
shall serve as executive officer of the Board without vote. 
(b) When the Coast Guard is not operating as a service in the Navy, 
the Secretary of the Treasury may designate a Regular or Reserve 
officer of the Coast Guard to serve with the Reserve Forces Policy 
Board but he shall not be a voting member. 
(c) The Reserve Forces Policy Board, acting through the Assistant 
Secretary of Defense designated pursuant to section 256 (a) of this 
Act, shall be the principal policy adviser to the Secretary of Defense 
on matters pertaining to the reserve components. 
(d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit or modify in 
any manner the functions of the committees on reserve policies estab-
lished pursuant to section 5 of the National Defense Act, as amended, 
or by this Act: Provided, That nothing herein shall prevent a member 
of those committees from serving as a member of the Reserve Forces 
Policy Board. 
(e) The semiannual report of the Secretary of Defense as required 
by the National Security Act of 1947, as amended, shall contain a 
General or flag 
officer. 
Reserve Forces 
Policy Board. 
Coast Guard. 
10 u s e 22-25, 
32-38. 
Report. 
61 Stat. 495. 
5 use 171 note. 
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Records. 
Information 
gram. 
pro-
chapter which shall be a report of the Reserve Forces Policy Board 
on the status of the reserve programs of the Department of Defense. 
SEC. 258. Each Armed Force of the United States shall maintain 
adequate and current personnel records of each member of its reserve 
components, indicating the physical condition, dependency status, 
military qualifications, civilian occupational skills, availability, and 
such other data as the appropriate Secretary may prescribe. 
SEO. 259. The Secretary of Defense is directed to require the com-
plete and up-to-date dissemination of information of interest to the 
reserve components to all members of the reserve components and to 
the public in general. 
Women. 
PART III—RESERVE COMPONENTS OF T H E ARMY 
SEC. 301. The National Guard of the United States and the Army 
Reserve are reserve components of the Army. 
All officers and enlisted 
members of the National Guard of the United States and all officers 
and enlisted members of the Army Reserve are Reserve officers and 
Reserve enlisted members, respectively, of the Army. 
SEC. 302. The Organized Reserve Corps is redesignated as the Army 
Reserve. 
SEC. 303. The Army Reserve includes all Reserve officers and 
Reserve enlisted members of the Army other than those who are mem-
bers of the National Guard of the United States. 
SEC. 304. Except as otherwise specifically provided, all laws now or 
hereafter applicable to male officers and former officers of the Army 
Reserve, to enlisted men and former enlisted men of the Army Reserve, 
and to their dependents and beneficiaries shall in like cases be appli-
cable respectively to female Reserve officers and female former Reserve 
officers of the Army Reserve, to Reserve enlisted women and former 
Reserve enlisted women of the Army Reserve, and to their dependents 
and beneficiaries except as may be necessary to adapt said provisions 
to the female persons in the Army Reserve. The husbands of women 
members of the Army Reserve shall not be considered dependents 
unless they are in fact dependent on their wives for over half of their 
support, and the children of such members shall not be considered 
dependents unless they are in fact dependent on their mother for over 
half of their support. 
PART IV—RESERVE 
COMPONENTS OF THE NAVY, 
MARINE CORPS, 
AND COAST GUARD 
SEC. 401. The Naval Reserve is the reserve component of the Navy. 
SEC, 402. The Marine Corps Reserve is the reserve component of 
the Marine Corps. 
SEC. 403. The Coast Guard Reserve is the reserve component of 
the Coast Guard. 
SEC. 404. The Naval Reserve shall be organized, administered, 
trained, and supplied under the direction of the Chief of Naval 
Operations. 
The bureaus and offices of the Navy shall hold the same 
relation and responsibility to the Naval Reserve as they do to the 
Regular Establishment. 
SEC. 405. The Marine Corps Reserve shall be organized, admin-
istered, trained, and supplied under the direction of the Commandant 
of the Marine Corps. The departments and offices of the Marine Corps 
shall hold the same relation and responsibility to the Marine Corps 
Reserve as they do to the Regular Establishment. 
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SEC. 406. The Coast Guard Reserve shall be organized, administered, 
trained, and supplied under the direction of the Commandant of the 
Coast Guard. The departments and offices of the Coast Guard shall 
hold the same relation and responsibility to the Coast Guard Reserve 
as they do to the Regular Establishment. 
SEC. 407. For the purpose of considering, recommending, and report-
ing to the appropriate Secretary on reserve policy matters, there shall 
be convened at least annually, at the seat of government, a Naval 
Reserve Policy Board, a Marine Corps Reserve Policy Board, and a 
Coast Guard Reserve Policy Board. At least half of the members of 
each such Reserve policy board shall be officers of the appropriate 
reserve component. 
SEC. 408. The Act of March 17, 1949 (ch. 23; 63 Stat. 14), is 
amended by striking out the first proviso thereof. 
SEC. 409*. The Secretary of the Navy sh^U prescribe a suitable flag fiagf 
to be known as the Naval Reserve flag. This flag may be flown by 
seagoing merchant vessels— 
(a) documented under the laws of the United States, which 
have been designated by the Secretary of the Navy under such 
regulations as he may prescribe as suitable for service as naval 
auxiliaries in time of war, and 
(b) the master or commanding officer and not less than 50 per 
centum of the other licensed officers of which are members of the 
Navy or Naval Reserve. 
SEC. 410. The Secretary of the Navy shall prescribe a suitable pen-
nant to be known as the Naval Reserve yacht pennant. This pennant 
may be flown by yachts and similar-type vessels— 
(a) documented under the laws of the United States, which 
have been designated by the Secretary of the Navy under such 
regulations as he may prescribe as suitable for service as naval 
auxiliaries in time of war, and 
(b) the captain or owner of which is a member of the Navy or 
Naval Reserve. 
SEC. 411. In time of national emergency declared by the President 
or by the Congress and in time of war, the President is authorized to 
appoint qualified persons (including persons who hold no Regular 
or Reserve status) as temporary officers in the Naval Reserve and the 
Marine Corps Reserve in any of the several commissioned officer 
grades, and persons so appointed may be ordered to active duty for 
such periods of time as the President may prescribe. The appoint-
ment of such a temporary officer, if not sooner vacated, shall continue 
during the national emergency or war in which the appointment was 
made and for six months thereafter. 
All such temporary appoint-
ments may be vacated at any time by the President. 
Temporary 
officers so appointed may, upon application, and, if selected, be com-
missioned as a Regular or Reserve officer of the Armed Force of the 
United States in which he served as provided by law. 
SEC. 412. Temporary members now or hereafter enrolled in the Coast 
Guard Reserve are excluded from the provisions of this Act. 
SEC. 413. (a) Members of the Naval Reserve and the Marine Corps 
Reserve who have performed a total of not less than thirty years' active 
Federal service; or who have had not less than twenty years' active 
Federal service, the last ten years of which shall have been performed 
during the eleven years immediately preceding their transfer to a 
retired Reserve; may be placed in a Retired Reserve upon their request. 
(b) Except while on active duty, personnel transferred to a Retired 
Reserve as provided by this section shall be entitled to pay at the rate 
of 50 per centum of their active-duty rate of pay. 
Policy Boards. 
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N a v a l Reserve 
yacht pennant. 
Temporary offi-
cers. 
Re tired Reserve. 
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com-
mended for combat 
duty. 
Women. 
(c) If a performance of duty for which commended occurred not 
later than December 31, 1946, officers specially commended for a per-
formance of duty in actual combat with the enemy by the head of the 
executive department under whose jurisdiction such duty was per-
formed shall be advanced to the next higher grade when placed in a 
Retired Reserve. However, officers heretofore holding rank or grade 
on the honorary retired lists of the Naval Reserve or Marine Corps 
Reserve or hereafter holding rank or grade in a Retired Reserve pur-
suant to this section above captain in the Naval Reserve or above 
colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve solely by virtue of such commen-
dation, if hereafter recalled to active duty, may, in the discretion of 
the Secretary of the Navy, be recalled either in the rank or grade to 
which they would otherwise be entitled had they not been accorded 
higher rank or grade by virtue of such commendation, or in the rank 
or grade held by them in a Retired Reserve. 
(d) The provisions of this section shall not be applicable to any 
person who is not a member of the Naval Reserve or Marine Corps 
Reserve on the effective date of this Act. 
(e) The provisions of this section shall terminate twenty years from 
the effective date of this Act, but such termination shall not affect any 
accrued rights to retired pay. 
(f) Nothing contained in this section shall be construed as prohibit-
ing any person eligible for retirement under the provisions of this 
section from retiring under the provisions of any other law under 
which he may be eligible. 
SEC. 414. Except as otherwise specifically provided, all laws now or 
hereafter applicable to male officers and former officers of the Naval 
Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve, and Coast Guard Reserve; to enlisted 
men and former enlisted men of the Naval Reserve, Marine Corps 
Reserve, and Coast Guard Reserve; and to their dependents and bene-
ficiaries shall in like cases be applicable respectively to female Reserve 
officers and female former Reserve officers of the Naval Reserve, Marine 
Corps Reserve, and Coast Guard Reserve, as appropriate, to Reserve 
enlisted women and former Reserve enlisted women of the Naval 
Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve, and Coast Guard Reserve, as appro-
priate, and to their dependents and beneficiaries except as may be 
necessary to adapt said provisions to the female persons. The husbands 
of women members of the Naval Reserve, Marme Corps Reserve, and 
Coast Guard Reserve shall not be considered dependents unless they 
are in fact dependent on their wives for over half of their support, and 
the children of such members shall not be considered dependents unless 
they are in fact dependent on their mother for over half of their 
support. 
PART V—THE NAVAL MILITIA 
SEC. 501. The Naval Militia consists of the Naval Militia of the 
States, Territories, and the District of Columbia. 
SEC. 502. The Secretary of the Navy may appoint any officer or 
enlisted member of the Naval Militia to the rank, grade, or rating for 
which qualified in the Naval Reserve or Marine Corps Reserve. 
SEC. 503. When ordered to active duty in the service of the United 
States, members of the Naval Reserve or Marine Corps Reserve who 
are members of the Naval Militia of any State, Territory, or the 
District of Columbia shall stand relieved from all service or duty in 
the Naval Militia from the active duty date of the orders and for so 
long as they remain on active duty. 
SEC.' 504. Such vessels, material, armament, equipment, and other 
facilities of the Navy and Marine Corps as are or may be made avail-
able to the Naval Reserve and the Marine Corps Reserve may also be 
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made available in accordance with regulations prescribed by the 
Secretary of the Navy for issue or loan to the several States, Terri-
tories, or the District of Columbia for the use of the Naval Militia 
if— 
(a) at least 95 per centum of the personnel of the portion or 
unit of the Naval Militia to which such facilities would be made 
available are members of the Naval Reserve or Marine Corps 
Reserve, and 
(b) the organization, administration, and training of the 
Naval Militia conform to standards prescribed by the Secretary 
of the Navy. 
PART VI—RESERVE COMPONENTS OF T H E AIR FORCE 
SEC. 601. The Air National Guard of the United States and the Air 
Force Reserve are reserve components of the Air Force. All officers 
and enlisted members of the Air National Guard of the United States 
and all officers and enlisted members of the Air Force Reserve are 
Reserve officers and Reserve enlisted members, respectively, of the 
Air Force. 
SEC. 602. The Air Force Reserve includes all Reserve officers and 
Reserve enlisted members of the Air Force other than those who are 
members of the Air National Guard of the United States. 
SEC. 603. Except as otherwise specifically provided, all laws now 
women. 
or hereafter applicable to male officers and former officers of the Air 
Force Reserve, to enlisted men and former enlisted men of the Air 
Force Reserve, and to their dependents and beneficiaries shall in like 
cases be applicable respectively to female Reserve officers and female 
former Reserve officers of the Air Force Reserve, to Reserve enlisted 
women and former Reserve enlisted women of the Air Force Reserve, 
and to their dependents and beneficiaries except as may be necessary 
to adapt said provisions to the female persons in the ^vir Force 
Reserve. 
The husbands of women members of the Air Force Reserve 
' 
; 
shall not be considered dependent unless they are in fact dependent 
on their wives for over half of their support, and the children of such 
members shall not be considered dei)endents unLdS they are in fact 
dependent on their mother for over half of their support. 
PART VII—THE NATIONAL GUARD OF THE UNITED 
STATES AND THE AIR NATIONAL GUARD OF THE 
UNITED 
STATES 
SEC. '^01. The National Guard of the United States and the Air 
National Guard of the United States are reserve components of the 
Army and the Air Force, respectively, and references in this Act, in 
the absence of express provision otherwise, are to be construed accord-
ingly. Whenever joint reference is made to the National Guard of 
the United States and the Air National Guard of the United States 
on any matter of common concern together with reference to the 
Army and Air Force or other component thereof, the reference in the 
case of the National Guard of the United States shall be construed to 
be to the Army and in the case of the Air National Guard of the 
United States to be to the Air Force. 
SEC. 702. (a) The National Guard of the United States shall con-
sist of all federally recognized units, organizations, and members of 
the National Guard of the several States, Territories, and the District 
of Columbia, who, in addition to their status as such, are Reserves 
of the Army in the same commissioned, w^irrant, or enlisted grade as 
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tion. 
32 u s e 113. 
Appointment. 
Temporary rec-
ognition. 
32 u s e 113. 
they hold in the National Guard of the several States, Territories, or 
the District of Columbia. 
(b) The Air National Guard of the United States shall consist of 
all federally recognized units, organizations, and members of the Air 
National Guard of the several States, Territories, and the District 
of Columbia, who in addition to their status as such, are Reserves of 
the Air Force in the same commissioned, warrant, or enlisted grade 
as they hold in the Air National Guard of the several States, Terri-
tories, or the District of Columbia. 
SEC. 703. (a) To be federally recognized, a member of the National 
Guard or Air National Guard of any State, Territory, or the District 
of Columbia must be a member of a federally recognized unit or other 
federally recognized subdivision of the National Guard or Air 
National Guard, respectively, and possess the qualifications prescribed 
by the appropriate Secretary for the grade, branch, position, and type 
of unit or other subdivision involved, and, in the case of officers, except 
as provided in section 705 of this Act, successfully pass the examina-
tion prescribed by section 75, National Defense Act, as amended. 
(b) Upon being federally recognized, those officers who do not hold 
appointments as Reserve officers of the appropriate Armed Force of 
the United States shall be appointed as Reserve officers of the appro-
priate Armed Force of the United States in the same grade in which 
they hold federally recognized appointments in the National Guard 
or Air National Guard of a State, Territory, or the District of Colum-
bia, for service as a member of the National Guard of the United 
States or Air National Guard of the United States, as appropriate: 
Provided^ That the acceptance of an appointment in the same grade 
and branch as a Reserve officer of the Armed Force of the United 
States concerned, by an officer of the National Guard or Air National 
Guard of a State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, shall not 
operate to vacate his State, Territory, or District of Columbia National 
Guard or Air National Guard office. 
SEC. 704. The appropriate Secretary may by regulation authorize 
the temporary extension of Federal recognition to any officer of the 
National Guard or Air National Guard who shall have successfully 
passed the examination prescribed in section 75 of the National De-
fense Act, as amended, pending final determination of his eligibility 
for, and his appointment as, a Reserve officer of the Army or Air Force 
in the grade concerned. If and when so appointed the appointment 
shall be dated as of, shall be considered to have been accepted on, and 
shaU be deemed to have been effective from, the date of such recog-
nition. However, a temporary extension of Federal recognition shall 
be granted only when the officer takes oath that during such recog-
nition he will perform all Federal duties and obligations required of 
him the same as though he were appointed as a Reserve officer of the 
Army or Air Force in the same grade. Such temporary recognition 
may be withdrawn at any time and if not sooner withdrawn or re-
placed by permanent recognition upon appointment as a Reserve 
officer in the same grade, it shall automatically terminate six months 
after its effective date: Provided^ That temporary extension of Fed-
eral recognition may, as provided in this section, be granted to Re-
serve officers pending final determination of their eligibility for such 
Federal recognition. 
SEC. 705. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 75, Na-
tional Defense Act, as amended, whenever a member of the Army 
Reserve or Air Force Reserve becomes an officer of the National Guard 
or Air National Guard of any State, Territory, or District of Colum-
bia in the same grade in which he is appointed as a Reserve officer of 
the appropriate Armed Force of the United States, he shall, subject 
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to such physical examination as may be prescribed, be extended Fed-
eral recognition in such grade as of the date of his appointment in the 
National'Guard or Air National Guard and concurrently become a 
member of the National Guard of the United States or Air National 
Guard of the United States, as appropriate, and ceases to be a mem-
bar of the Army Reserve or of the Air Force Reserve. 
(b) Whenever a member of the Army Reserve or of the Air Force 
Reserve is duly enlisted in the National Guard or Air National Guard 
of any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, and is a member 
of a federally recognized unit or organization thereof, in the same 
grade in which he is a Reserve of the appropriate Armed Force of the 
United States, he becomes a member of the National Guard of the 
United States or of the Air National Guard of the United States and 
ceases to be a member of the Army Reserve or of the Air Force 
Reserve. 
SEC. 706. Under such regulations as the appropriate Secretary may 
Transfers, 
prescribe, and with the consent of the Governor or other appropriate 
authority of the State, Territory, or District of Columbia concerned, a 
member of the National Guard of the United States or of the Air 
National Guard of the United States may be transferred in grade at 
any time to the Army Reserve or the Air Force Reserve, and such 
transfer shall terminate his federally recognized National Guard or 
Air National Guard status. Upon the transfer of any person w^hose 
service has been honorable, from the National Guard of the United 
States or from the Air National Guard of the United States to the 
xlrmy Reserve or to the Air Force Reserve, he shall be eligible for 
promotion to the highest permanent grade previously held in the 
Army or any component thereof or in the Air Force or any com-
ponent thereof. 
SEC. 707. Unless discharged from his appointment or enlistment as 
a Reserve officer or Reserve enlisted member, respectively, whenever a 
member of the National Guard of the United States or of the Air 
National Guard of the United States ceases to hold a status as a feder-
ally recognized member of the National Guard or of the Air National 
Guard of any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, he becomes 
a member of the Army Reserve or of the Air Force Reserve and ceases 
to be a member of the National Guard of the United States or of the 
Air National Guard of the United States. 
SEC. 708. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act, warrant 
officers and enlisted members of the National Guard of the United 
States and of the Air National Guard of the United States may, with-
out affecting such status, hold appointments as Reserve commissioned 
officers of the Army or of the Air Force in the grade of second lieu-
tenant or first lieutenant without vacating their warrant or enlisted 
grades and ratings in the National Guard or Air National Guard of 
the appropriate State, Territory, or the District of Columbia. 
SEC. 709. Except when ordered thereto in accordance with law, stJtiw ."^"^'" ^'^*'' 
members of the National Guard of the United States and of the Air 
National Guard of the United States shall not be on active duty in the 
service of the United States. When not on active duty in the service 
of the United States, they shall be administered, armed, uniformed, 
equipped, and trained in their status as members of the National Guard 
and Air National Guard of the several States, Territories, and the 
District of Columbia. 
SEC. 710. When ordered to active duty in the service of the United 
States, members of the National Guard of the United States and of 
the Air National Guard of the United States shall stand relieved from 
duty in the National Guard and Air National Guard of their respective 
States, Territories, and the District of Columbia from the active-duty 
Grades. 
Active duty. 
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ability. 
Integrity of units. 
Relief from a c -
tive duty. 
Personnel. 
Status of service. 
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date of the orders and for so long as they remain on active duty in the 
service of the United States. During such active duty in the service 
of the United States, they shall be subject to the laws and regulations 
applicable to members of the Army and Air Force. 
SEC. 711. Upon ordering any portion of the National Guard of the 
United States or of the Air National Guard of the United States into 
the active military service of the United States, the President may 
relieve the State, Territory, or District of Columbia concerned of such 
accountability and liability under such terms and conditions as he may 
prescribe for any United States property theretofore issued to it for 
the use of such portion of the National Guard of the United States or 
of the Air National Guard of the United States. 
SEC. 712. (a) During the initial mobilization, insofar as practicable, 
the organization of units of the National Guard of the United States 
and of the Air National Guard of the United States existing at the 
date of an order to active Federal service shall be maintained intact. 
(b) Upon being relieved from active duty, insofar as practicable, 
units, organizations, and individuals shall be returned to the National 
Guard and Air National Guard in their respective States, Territories, 
and the District of Columbia, together with sufficient arms and equip-
ment as determined by the appropriate Secretary to accomplish their 
peacetime mission. 
SEC. 713. (a) When officers and enlisted members of the National 
Guard of the United States or of the Air National Guard of the United 
States are ordered into Federal service they shall be ordered to active 
duty in their status as Reserve officers and Reserve enlisted member^ 
of the Army or Air Force. 
(b) When the National Guard of the United States or the Air 
National Guard of the United States is ordered into the active military 
service of the United States, officers of the National Guard and of the 
Air National Guard who do not hold appointments as Reserve officers 
of the Army or Air Force may be so appointed by the President in the 
same grade and branch held by them in the National Guard or Air 
National Guard. 
SEC. 714. For the purposes of all laws now or hereafter enacted 
providing benefits for members of the National Guard of the United 
States and of the Air National Guard of the United States and their 
dependents and beneficiaries— 
(a) All military training, duties, and service performed by members 
of the National Guard of the United States or members of the Air 
National Guard of the United States while in their status as members 
of the National Guard or Air National Guard of the several States, 
Territories, and the District of Columbia, for which they are entitled 
by law to receive pay from the United States, shall be considered mili-
tary training, duties, and service in the service of the United States 
performed by them as Reserve members of the Army or Air Force. 
(b) The full-time training or other full-time duty performed by 
memDers of the National Guard of the United States or members of 
the Air National Guard of the United States while in their status as 
members of the National Guard or Air National Guard of the several 
States, Territories, and the District of Columbia pursuant to sections 
94, 97, 99, and 113 of the National Defense Act, as amended, for which 
they are entitled to receive pay from the United States or without pay 
as provided in section 240 of this Act shall be considered active duty 
for training in the service of the United States as Reserve members of 
the Army or Air Force: Provided^ That from the date of enactment of 
this Act such duty for a period of thirty days or more shall be con-
sidered active service as members of the Armed Forces for the pur-
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poses of the Armed Forces Leave Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 963) as amended 
(87U.S.C.31aetseq.). 
(c) The inactive-duty training performed by members of the 
National Guard of the United States or members of the Air National 
Guard of the IJnited States while in their status as members of the 
National Guard or Air National Guard of the several States, Terri-
tories, and the District of Columbia under regulations prescribed by 
the appropriate Secretary pursuant to section 92 of the National 
Defense Act, as amended, or other express provision shall be considered 
inactive-duty training in the service of the United States as Reserve 
members of the Army or Air Force. 
I n a c t i v e - duty 
training. 
PART VIII—APPROPRIATIONS, REPEALS, AMENDMENTS, 
AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS 
SEC. 801. There is authorized to be appropriated, out of any money 
in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, such 
sums as niay be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. 
SEC. 802. Except as otherwise specifically provided, this Act shall 
become effective on the first day of the sixth month following the month 
of enactment. 
SEC. 803. The following Acts and parts of Acts are repealed: 
The Naval Reserve Act of 1938, as amended, except for all provisions 
of title II and section 304 of title III. 
Notwithstanding the repeal 
of section 1 and section 4 of title I of the Naval Reserve Act of 1938, 
as amended, the Fleet Reserve established by said Act, as amended, 
shall be composed of persons transferred thereto in accordance with 
title II of said Act, as amended, including (a) those former members 
of the Fleet Naval Reserve as a result of sixteen or more years of 
active naval service who were transferred to the Fleet Reserve in 
accordance with the said Act, and (b) citizens of the Philippine 
Islands who were in the naval service on July 4, 1946, or who, having 
been discharged from the naval service on or prior to that date, reen-
listed therein subsequent to July 4, 1946, but before the expiration of 
three months following discharge. The unrepealed provisions of the 
Naval Reserve Act of 1938, as amended, shall continue to apply to 
the Marine Corps as well as the Navy. 
The Act of March 17, 1941 (ch. 19, 55 Stat. 43, as amended; 34 U. 
S. C. 855C-2). 
Section 10 of the Naval Aviation Cadet Act of 1942 (56 Stat. 738; 
34U. S. C. 850 (i)). 
Section 1 of the Act of December 18,1942 (56 Stat. 1066; 34 U. S. C. 
853C-5). 
The Act of January 20,1942 (ch. 12, 56 Stat. 10; 34 U. S. C. 853a-l). 
Title 14, United States Code, sections 751,752,753, and 759. 
Sections 37, 37a, 38, 55a, 55b, and 111 of the National Defense Act, as 
amended. 
The second paragraph of section 58 of the National Defense Act, as 
amended (32 U. S. C. 4a). 
Paragraph (b) of section 71 of the National Defense Act, as amended 
(32U. S. C. 4b). 
The last paragraph of section 75 of the National Defense Act, as 
amended (32 U. S. C. 113). 
The second sentence of section 77 of the National Defense Act, as 
amended (32 U. S. C. 114). 
That portion of section 109 of the National Defense Act, as amended, 
which precedes the final proviso of the section (32 U. S. C. 143). 
Section 11 of the Act of August 4, 1942 (56 Stat. 738, as amended: 
34U. S. C. 850j). 
Appropriation. 
Effective date. 
Repeals. 
52 Stat. 1175. 
34 u s e 853j. 
34 u s e 850i. 
63 Stat. 551. 
39 Stat. 166. 
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58 Stat 
s o u s e 
1591-1598. 
324. 
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National Defense 
Act, amendments. 
Oath of e n l i s t -
ment. 
Sections 2, 3, and 4 of the Act of December 4, 1942 (56 Stat. 1039-
1040; 10 U. S. C. 904b, c, and d). 
Section 117 of the Army-Navy Nurses Act of 1947 (61 Stat. 47, as 
amended; 10 U. S. C. 377). 
Sections 109 and 310 of the Women's Armed Services Integration 
Act of 1948 (62 Stat. 362 and 374; 10 U. S. C. 378, 5 U. S. C. 627i). 
SEC. 804. (a) The third and fourth paragraphs under the subheading 
"Ordnance Stores and Equipment for Reserve Officers' Training 
Corps" of the Act of May 12, 1917 (40 Stat. 72), as amended (10 U. S. 
C. 371 and 371b), are further amended by striking out the words 
"Officers' Reserve Corps or Enlisted Reserve Corps" wherever they 
appear therein and by inserting in lieu thereof the words "reserve 
components of the Armed Forces" and by inserting in the third para-
graph after the word "ordered" where it first appears the words 
"to active duty for training, or active duty, or". 
(b) Section 412 of the Mutual Defense Assistance Act of 1949 (63 
Stat. 721; 22 XJ. S. C. 1584) shall not apply to any person, not on active 
duty in the Armed Forces, solely by reason of his having served on 
active duty or active duty for training as a member of a reserve com-
ponent within the preceding two years. 
SEC. 805. The Army-Navy Nurses Act of 1947, as amended (10 
TJ. S. C. 374-377), is further amended as follows: 
(a) Section 115 is amended to read: "Except as otherwise specif-
ically provided, all laws and regulations now or hereafter applicable 
to commissioned officers and former commissioned officers of the Army 
Reserve and to their dependents and beneficiaries, shall, in like cases, 
be applicable respectively to commissioned officers and former com-
missioned officers of the Army Nurse Corps Section and the Women's 
Medical Specialist Corps Section of the Army Reserve and to their 
dependents and beneficiaries." 
(b) Section 116 is amended to read: "Appointments of Reserve 
officers for service in the Army Nurse Corps Section and the Women's 
Medical Specialist Corps Section of the Army Reserve may be made 
in such grades and under such regulations as may be prescribed by 
the Secretary of the Army from female citizens of the United States 
who have attained the a^e of twenty-one years and who possess such 
physical and other qualifications as may be prescribed by the Secre-
tary of the Army: Provided^ That female officers appointed pursuant 
to the Act of June 22, 1944, and honorably separated from the service 
thereafter may, if otherwise qualified, be appointed as Reserve officers 
in the highest grade satisfactorily held by them in active service." 
SEC. 806. The National Defense Act, as amended, is further amended 
as follows: 
(a) Section 69, as amended (32 U. S. C. 124), is further amended 
by striking out the words "and in the National Guard of the United 
States". 
(b) Section 70, National Defense Act, as amended (32 U. S. C. 
123), is further amended by striking out the language contained 
therein and inserting in lieu thereof the following: 
"Men enlisting in the National Guard and Air National Guard of 
the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, shall sign 
an enlistment contract and subscribe to the following oath or 
affirmation: 
" 'I do hereby acknowledge to have voluntarily enlisted this 
day 
of 
19 , in the National Guard (Air National Guard) of 
the State of 
for a period of 
year(s) under the con-
ditions prescribed by law, unless sooner discharged by proper 
authority. 
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" 'I, 
, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will bear 
true faith and allegiance to the United States of America and to the 
State of 
; that I will serve them honestly and faith-
fully against all their enemies whomsoever; and that I will obey the 
orders of the President of the United States and the Governor of 
and the orders of the officers appointed over me, 
according to law and regulations,' 
"The oath of enlistment prescribed in this section may be taken 
before any officer of the National Guard (Air National Guard) or any 
other person authorized to administer oaths of enlistments in the 
National Guard of the several States, Territories, and the District of 
Columbia, by respective laws thereof." 
(c) The first paragraph of section 73, as amended (32 U. S. C 
112), is further amended by striking the words "and in the National 
Guard of the United States" and the words "in the National Guard of 
the United States and". 
(d) Section 72, as amended (32 U. S. C. 125), is further amended 
by striking out the w^ords "and the National Guard of the United 
States". 
(e) Section 76, as amended (32 U. S. C. 115), is further amended 
by striking out the words "the National Guard of the United States" 
in the second sentence thereof and inserting in lieu thereof the words 
"his appointment as a Reserve of the Armed Force concerned" and 
by striking out the words "in the National Guard of the United 
States" in the third sentence thereof and inserting in lieu thereof the 
words "as a Reserve of the Armed Force concerned". 
(f) Section 78, as amended (32 U. S. C. 132, 133, 134), is further 
amended by striking out the words "and in the National Guard of the 
United States" in paragraph 1 thereof, and by striking out the words 
"or the National Guard of the United States" in paragraph 2 thereof. 
(g) Section 81, as amended (32 U. S. C. 172 and 175), is further 
amended by striking out the words "The Chief of the National Guard 
Bureau shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and 
consent of the Senate, by selection from lists of officers of the National 
Guard of the United States recommended as suitable for such appoint-
ment by their respective governors, and who have had ten or more 
years' commissioned service in the active National Guard, at least 
five of which have been in the line, and who have attained at least 
the grade of colonel. 
The Chief of the National (iruard Bureau shall 
hold office for four years unless sooner removed for cause, and shall 
be eligible to succeed himself, and when sixty-four years of age shall 
cease to hold such office. 
Upon accepting his office, the Chief of the 
National Guard Bureau shall be appointed a major general in the 
National Guard of the United States, and commissioned in the Army 
of the United States, and while so serving he shall have the rank, pay, 
and allowances of a major general, provided by law, but shall not be 
entitled to retirement or retired pay." and inserting in lieu thereof 
the following: "The Chief of the National Guard Bureau shall be 
appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of 
the Senate, by selection from lists of officers of the National Guard 
of the United States or Air National Guard of the United States rec-
ommended as suitable for such appointment by their respective gov-
ernors, and who have had ten or more years' commissioned service in 
the active National Guard or Air National Guard or any combina-
tion thereof, and who have attained at least the grade of colonel. 
The 
Chief of the National Guard Bureau shall hold office for four years 
unless sooner removed for cause, and shall be eligible to succeed him-
self and when sixty-four years of age shall cease to hold such office. 
Upon accepting his office, the Chief of the National Guard Bureau 
Chief of National 
Guard Bureau. 
Appointment. 
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shall be appointed as a Reserve officer of the appropriate Armed 
Force in the grade of major general, and shall be commissioned in 
the Army of the United States, and shall be a member of the National 
Guard of the United States or Air National Guard of the United 
States, as appropriate." in paragraph 1 thereof, and by striking out the 
words "hold appointments in" and inserting in lieu thereof the fol-
lowing words: "are members of" in paragraph 2 thereof, and by insert-
ing after the word "States" where it first appears in paragraph 3 
thereof, the words "or the Air National Guard of the United States,", 
and by striking out the words "provided in this section" in the last 
sentence of said paragraph, and in the same sentence after the word 
"States" by inserting the words "or Air National Guard of the United 
States", and by striking the period at the end of the sentence and add-
ing the words "or Air National Guard." 
(h) The seventh paragraph of section 127 (a), as amended (10 
U. S. C. 513), is further amended by deleting the period at the end 
thereof and substituting a colon and adding the following: ^''Provided 
further^ That persons may be appointed as Reserve officers of the 
Army or the Air Force in time of war." 
(i) Section 55, as amended (10 U. S. C. 421, 423, 424, 425), is fur-
ther amended by deleting all of the section except the last sentence 
thereof; and the last sentence of section 55, as amended, is further 
amended by deleting the comma first appearing therein and the words 
"whether" and "or the Enlisted Reserve Corps", and by inserting 
after the words "Regular Army" the words "or in the Regular Air 
Force". 
(j) Section 58, as amended (32 U. S. C. 4), is further amended by 
striking the word "twenty-one" appearing in the first sentence thereof 
and inserting in lieu thereof the word "eighteen". 
SEC. 807. (a) Subsection (b) of section 2 of the Army Organiza-
tion Act of 1950 is amended by inserting after the words "in any of 
the components of the Army; the words "all persons appointed or 
enlisted as Reserves of the Army, including persons transferred to 
such status under any provision of law;". 
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(b) Section 301 of the Army Organization Act of 1950 is 
amended— 
(1) by striking out the words "Organized Reserve Corps" and 
inserting in lieu thereof the words "Army Reserve"; and 
(2) by inserting after the words "above-named components;" 
the words "all persons appointed or enlisted as Reserves of the 
Army, including persons transferred to such status under any 
provision of law;". 
SEO. 808. Section 205 of the Naval Reserve Act of 1938 (34 U. S. C. 
34USC 854d.' 
854 (d)) is amended by deleting the second proviso therein and in-
serting in lieu thereof: '•''Provided further^ That men so transferred 
to the Fleet Reserve for the four-year period and officers and men 
otherwise assigned thereto pursuant to title I I of this Act, or other 
provision of law, may be ordered by competent authority to active 
duty without their consent (a) in time of war or national emergency 
declared by the Congress for the duration of the war or national 
emergency, and for six months thereafter, and (b) in time of national 
emergency declared by the President or when otherwise authorized 
by law; and, except as otherwise provided in this title, shall be under 
no obligation to perform training duty or drill, and shall be paid in 
advance $20 per annum: And provided further^ That the Secretary 
of the Navy may release any member of the Fleet Reserve from active 
duty or active duty for training at any time, except that, in time of 
war or national emergency hereafter declared by the Congress, or in 
time of national emergency hereafter proclaimed by the President, a 
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member of the Fleet Reserve who is serving on active duty shall be 
released from active duty only on the approved recommendation of a 
board of officers convened by competent authority if the member 
requests such action, if such release from active duty is not during a 
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period of demobilization or reduction in strength of the Navy."' 
SEC. 809. All provisions of law which refer to appointment or enlist-
ment in or transfer to any of the reserve components shall be deemed 
to refer to appointment or enlistment as a Reserve or transfer to such 
status in the appropriate Armed Force of the United States. 
All 
provisions of law which refer to persons enlisted or appointed in or 
transferred to any of the reserve components shall be deemed to refer 
to persons appointed or enlisted as Reserves or transferred to such 
status in the appro])riate Armed Force of the United States. 
SEC. 810. Any right accrued or any proceeding commenced before 
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this Act takes effect is not affected by the provisions of this Act, but 
all procedure thereafter taken shall conform to the j)rovisions of this 
Act. 
SEC. 811. (a) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to repeal, limit, 
or modify, in any manner, the authority to order persons or units 
to active military service or training pursuant to the Universal Mili- g^^2 stat. 604; 65 
tary Training and Service Act, as amended. 
souse app. 4Si. 
(b) Except as otherwise specifically provided in section 806 (g), 
nothing in .this Act shall be construed as changing existing laws per-
taining to the Chief of the National Guard Bureau. 
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SEC. 812. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, no back pay or 
allowances shall be held to have accrued under the pi-ovisions of this 
Act for any period prior to the effective date thereof. 
SEC. 813. Section 4 (d) (8) of the Universal Military Training and 
Service Act, as amended, is further amended by striking out the words 
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"appointed in the Armed Forces" where first appearing therein and by 
inserting in lieu thereof the words "appointed, under any provision of 
law, in the Armed Forces, including the reserve components thereof," 
This section shall be effective as of June 19, 1951. 
Approved July 9, 1952. 
Effective date of 
section. 
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Public Law 477 
CHAPTER 609 
AN ACT 
July 9, 1952 
To amend title 28 of the United States Code so as to provide for two United States 
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commissioners for Great Smolty Mountains National Park. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Repr-esentativen of the 
United Statef^ of America in Congress assemhled. That section Q'^1 (a) ..^'f^* ^>w°''^ 
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ot title 28 01 the United States Code is amended by striking out "Great ^^^%^' 
Smoky Mountains" and by inserting after the second paragraph of 
such section the following new paragraph: 
"Two United States commissioners may be appointed for Great 
Smoky Mountains National Park. 
One, whose jurisdiction shall be 
limited to the portion of the park situated in Tennessee, shall be 
appointed by the district court for the eastern district of Tennessee; the 
other, whose jurisdiction shall be limited to the portion of the park 
situated in North Carolina, shall be appointed by the district court 
for the western district of North Carolina." 
SEC. 2. The jurisdiction of the United States commissioner holding 
office as commissioner of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park 
on the date of enactment of this Act shall be limited to the portion 
of the park situated in North Carolina. 
Approved July 9, 1952.