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 78TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CH. 373-JULY 1, 1944 (b) The titles of medical officers of the foregoing grades shall be respectively (1) medical director, (2) senior surgeon, (3) surgeon, (4) senior assistant surgeon, (5) assistant surgeon, and (6) junior assistant surgeon. The President is authorized to prescribe titles, appropriate to the several grades, for commissioned officers of the Service other than medical officers. All titles of the officers of the Reserve Corps shall have the suffix "Reserve". SPECIAL TEMPORARY POSITIONS SEC. 207. (a) When necessary for the accomplishment of impor- tant temporary work in time of war, or of emergency proclaimed by him, the President may establish special temporary positions in the Service and prescribe grades which shall be applicable to officers during periods they are assigned to such positions. While assigned to any such position an officer shall receive the pay and allowances applicable to the grade so prescribed. Not more than three such positions existing at any one time shall have the grade of Assistant Surgeon General. The Surgeon General shall assign commissioned officers to such positions. (b) Commissioned officers and qualified technical or professional noncommissioned personnel may be assigned by the Surgeon General to be chiefs of administrative units. Such assignments shall not affect the pay of commissioned officers so assigned, except that when any commissioned officer below the grade of director is assigned to serve as chief of a division such officer during the period so assigned shall have the temporary grade and receive the pay and allowances applicable to the director grade. APPOINTMENT OF PERSONNEL SEC. 208. (a) (1) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, original appointments to the Regular Corps may be made only in the junior assistant, assistant, and senior assistant grades and original appointments to a grade above junior assistant shall be made only after passage of an examination, given in accordance with regulations of the President, in one or more of the several branches of medicine, surgery, dentistry, hygiene, sanitary engineer- ing, pharmacy, nursing, or related scientific specialties in the field of public-health. (2) Original appointments to the Reserve Corps may be made to any grade up to and including the director grade but only after passage of an examination given in accordance with regulations of the President. Reserve commissions shall be for a period of not more than five years and any such commission may be terminated by the President at any time, in his discretion. (b) Whenever commissioned officers of the Service are not available for the performance of permanent duties requiring highly specialized training and experience in special fields related to public health, the Administrator on recommendation of the Surgeon General shall report that fact to the President and the President is authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, not to exceed three persons in any one fiscal year to grades in the Regular Corps of the Service above that of senior assistant, but not to a grade above that of director; and for purposes of pay and pay period any person appointed under the provisions of this section shall be considered as having had on the date of appointment service equal to that of the junior officer of the grade to which appointed. 685 Titles of medical officers. Emergency assign- ments. Chiefs of adminis trative units. Regular Oorpe. Reserve Orp. When commissioned officers are not avail- able for permanent dnties. 58 STAT.]

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