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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 449-JUNE 12, 1948 "Enactment serv- ice." Grades. Restriction on ap- pointment. Interim promotion list. Ante, p. 373. Vacancies. Selection for pro- motion. 61 Stat. 910. 10 U. 8S.C., Supp. I, § 559i. Officers' and En- listed Section of Air Force Reserve. Applicability of laws. which each such person would have been credited as of the date of enactment of this section under the provisions of subsection (b) of this section had she been appointed in the Regular Air Force under the provisions of this section on that date. The amount of service so computed for each such person is hereinafter referred to as the amount of such person's "enactment service". Persons with less than three years "enactment service" shall be appointed in the grade of second lieutenant; persons with three or more years "enactment service", but less than seven years "enactment service", shall be appointed in the grade of first lieutenant; persons with seven or more years "enactment service", but less than fourteen years "enactment service", shall be appointed in the grade of captain; and persons with fourteen or more years "enactment service", but less than twenty-one years "enactment service", shall be appointed in the grade of major. (d) No woman with twenty-one or more years' "enactment service" shall be appointed as a commissioned officer in the Regular Air Force under the provisions of this section. (e) For the purpose of determining eligibility for promotion, each person appointed as a commissioned officer of the Regular Air Force under the provisions of this section shall be credited, as of the time of such appointment, with continuous commissioned service on the active list of the Regular Air Force equal to the period of service credited to her under subsection (b) of this section. SEr. 309 (a) Upon appointment of female officers in the Regular Air Force under the provisions of section 308 of this title, the names of all female commissioned officers of the Regular Air Force shall be carried on an interim Air Force promotion list for female officers and shall on each such officer's appointment be placed thereon next below the officer of her grade on such list having the same or next greater amount of service credit for promotion purposes. (b) The Secretary of the Air Force following enactment of this Act shall reserve such portion of the vacancies existing on the Air Force promotion list as he may deem necessary in the grades of captain, major, and lieutenant colonel for promotion thereto of qualified female officers. There shall be no permanent grade promotion appointments of female officers of the Regular Air Force to the grades of captain, major, and lieutenant colonel until that date which is fifteen months after the date of enactment of this title; such promotions shall be made on such date or at the earliest practicable time thereafter: Provided That selection of such female officers for promotion shall be governed by regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Air Force, which regulations, except where inconsistent with this section, shall be in general similar to the provisions prescribed for promotion of officers on the Air Force promotion list set out in section 518 of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947: Provided further, That in prescribing regu- lations for promotion of female officers to the grade of lieutenant colonel, the provisions of section 518 (b) thereof shall not be followed: And provided further, That the promotion of female officers here- under shall be made upon the interim promotion list described in this section. SEc. 310. (a) Effective on the date of enactment of this title, the appointment and enlistment of women in the Officers' and Enlisted Section of the Air Force Reserve shall be authorized. (b) Except as otherwise specifically provided, all laws now appli- cable to male commissioned officers and former commissioned officers of the Officers' Reserve Corps, to enlisted men and former enlisted men of the Enlisted Reserve Corps, and to their dependents and bene- ficiaries, shall be applicable, respectively, to female commissioned officers and former commissioned officers, to enlisted women and former enlisted women, of the Air Force Reserve, and to their depend- 374 [62 STAT.

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