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 484 Ready Reserve service.

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PUBLIC LAW 4 7 6 - J U L Y 9, 1952

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SEC. 208. (a) Each person required to serve in a reserve component pursuant to law, shall, upon becoming a member of a reserve component, 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 organized 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 satisfactorily participated, as determined by the appropriate Secretary, 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 Secretary 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 components 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 appropriate 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 the 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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