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 62 STAT.] 80TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CH. 449-JUNE 12, 1948 of lieutenant colonels authorized for that promotion list. Such officers shall be appointed in that grade only when selected and recommended for that grade by a selection board under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Army." (8) Subsection 514 (b) of said Act is amended by renumbering para- graphs (2) and (3) thereof so that they will appear as paragraphs (3) and (4) thereof, respectively, and inserting immediately before such paragraphs the following new paragraph: "(2) for any officer appointed in the Women's Army Corps of the Regular Army under the provisions of section 108 of title I of the Women's Armed Services Integration Act of 1948, the period of service credited to such officer at time of her appointment under the provisions of subsection (b) of such section, increased by the period of her active commissioned service in the Regular Army subsequent to such appoint- ment ;". (9) Subsection 514 (d) of said Act is amended by changing the period at the end of the last proviso contained in paragraph (4) thereof to a colon and inserting after such colon the following additional provisos: "Providedfurther That any of the officers of the Women's Army Corps of the Regular Army in the permanent grade of lieutenant colonel may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Army, be retained on the active list until thirty days after that date upon which thirty 'years' service' is completed: And providedfurther, That any officer of the Women's Army Corps of the Regular Army in the permanent grade of lieutenant colonel, who is serving in the temporary grade of colonel by virtue of occupying the position of Director of said Corps, may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Army, be retained on the active list while serving in such temporary grade." (10) Subsection 514 (d) of said Act is further amended by insert- ing after the end of paragraph (4) thereof the following new paragraph: "(5) After June 30, 1953, unless provided otherwise by some pro- vision of law, each officer of the Women's Army Corps of the Regular Army, heretofore or hereafter appointed in the permanent grade of major, who is not retired or separated at an earlier date under other provisions of law, shall be eliminated from the active list and retired on that date which is thirty days after the date upon which she com- pletes twenty-five 'years' service', unless she is appointed in the per- manent grade of lieutenant colonel in the Regular Army before that date." (e) The Women's Army Corps promotion list described in section 505 of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947, as amended, shall be estab- lished as soon as officers are appointed in the Women's Army Corps of the Regular Army under the provisions of section 108 of this title. The names of all officers appointed under the provisions of section 108 of this title shall be placed on such promotion list immediately below those officers of the same grade having the same or next greater period of service for promotion purposes. (f) Commissioned officers of the Women's Army Corps of the Regular Army are promotion-list officers and they shall be included among officers referred to by that term in all provisions of law relating to promotion-list officers generally, unless otherwise specifically provided. (g) The Secretary of the Army shall prescribe the military authority which commissioned officers of the Women's Army Corps may exercise, and the kind of military duty to which they may be assigned. (h) The Secretary of the Army under the circumstances and in accordance with regulations prescribed by the President, may termi- 359 61 Stat. 903. 10 U.S. C., Supp.I, § 941a (b) (2) (3). Post, p. 361. 61 Stat. 903. 10U.S. C., Supp. I, § 941a (d) (4). Retention on active list. Director. Supra. Majors. Promotion list. 61 Stat. 888 . 10 U.S. C., Supp. I, § 59 and note. Ante, p. 358. Post, p. 361. Promotion-list offi- crs. Military duty, etc. Terminationof com- mission.

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