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 PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 165, 166-JUNE 3, 1941 Pay, allowances, etc. Government life in- surance. 10U. S. C. 300a. Air Corps Reserve officers. Lump-sum pay- ments. Repeals. Short title. SEc. 4. The base pay of any aviation cadet shall be $75 per month, which pay shall include extra pay for flying risk, as provided by law. Aviation cadets shall be paid, in addition, a money allowance for sub- sistence of $1 per day and shall, while undergoing training, be fur- nished quarters, medical care, and hospitalization and shall be issued uniforms, clothing, and equipment at Government expense. No avia- tion cadet shall be entitled to receive longevity pay. While traveling under orders, they shall, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, receive transportation and reimbursement for necessary expenses incurred which are incident to such travel, or cash in lieu thereof. When traveling by air under competent orders, they shall receive the same allowances for traveling expenses as are now or may hereafter be authorized by law for officers of the Army. When commissioned as second lieutenants, Air Corps Reserve, pursuant to this Act, they shall be paid a uniform allowance of $150. SEC. 5. Aviation cadets shall be issued Government life insurance in the amount of $10,000, the premiums on which shall be paid by the Government. Upon being commissioned as second lieutenants, Air Corps Reserve, they shall have the option of continuing such policies at their own expense. SEC. 6. Section 2 of the Act of June 16, 1936 (49 Stat. 1524), as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 2 . Whenever any Air Corps Reserve officer who has not been selected for commission in the Regular Army is released from active duty that has been continuous for one or more years, he shall be paid a lump sum of $500 for each complete year of active service as such officer, and if released from active duty otherwise than upon his own request, or as a result of inefficient or unsatisfactory service as determined by the Secretary of War, such lump-sum payment shall be prorated for fractional parts of each year of such active service. The lump-sum payments herein authorized shall be in addition to any pay, allowances, compensation, or benefits which such officers may otherwise be entitled to receive." SEC. 7. All laws and parts of laws inconsistent with or in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 8. This Act may be cited as the "Army Aviation Cadet Act". Approved, June 3, 1941. [CHAPTER 166] June 3, 1941 s. 1063] [Public Law 98] Parachute duty. Additional pay for certain personnel. AN ACT To provide increased pay for certain military personnel while engaged on parachute duty. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That hereafter any officer, warrant officer, or enlisted man of the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of the United States not in flying-pay status who is assigned or attached as a member of a parachute unit, including parachute- jumping schools, and for whom parachute jumping is an essential part of his military duty and who, under such regulations as may be pre- scribed by the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy, has received a rating as a parachutist or is undergoing training for such a rating shall receive, while engaged upon duty designated by the head of the department concerned as parachute duty, additional pay at the rate of $100 per month in the case of any such officer or warrant officer, and additional pay at the rate of $50 per month in the case of any such enlisted man. Approved, June 3. 1941. 240 [55 STAT.

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