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

Training and Service Act, as amended, shall, if qualified and accepted, be permitted to enlist or accept an appointment in such Armed t'orce of the United States as he may elect (except that consent of the appropriate Secretaries shall be required for enlistment or appointment as a Reserve of another Armed Force of the United States) and to participate in such programs as are authorized for such Armed Force of the United States. Any such person who enlists or is appointed in an Armed Force of the United States shall be req^uired to perform the remaining period of his required term of service in the Armed Force of the United States in which such enlistment or appointment is made, or in any other Armed Force of the United States in which he subsequently enlists or is appointed. All periods of such participation shall be credited against total periods of obligated service imposed by the Universal Military Training and Service Act, as amended, but no period of time shall be credited more than once. (b) Nothing in this section shall be construed to reduce, limit, or modify any period of service which any person may undertake to perform pursuant to any enlistment or appointment or agreement, including an agreement entered into prior to, or at the time of, entering a program authorized by an Armed Force of the United States. SEC. 210. All members of the reserve components who are not in the Ready or Retired Reserve shall be in the Standby Reserve, SEC. 211. (a) Within the Standby Reserve, an inactive status list shall be maintained. When deemed by competent authority to be in the best interests of the service concerned, members in the Standby Reserve who are not required to remain members of a reserve component and who are unable to participate in prescribed training may, if qualified, be transferred to the inactive status list, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the appropriate Secretary. Such regulations shall provide for the return of such members to an active status under such conditions as the appropriate Secretary shall prescribe. (b) Members of the reserve components in an inactive status shall not be eligible for pay, promotion, or award of retirement point credits under Title III of the Army and Air Force Vitalization and Retirement Equalization Act of 1948, as amended. SEC. 212. (a) Each member of the reserve components shall be in an active, inactive, or retired status. (b) Members in the reserve components shall be in an active status, except those on an inactive status list, members in the Retired Reserve, and those assigned to the inactive National Guard. (c) Members of the reserve components on an inactive status list and members assigned to the inactive National Guard shall be in an inactive status. (d) Members of the Retired Reserve shall be in a retired status. SEC. 213. (a) Every person who is a member of a reserve component on the effective date of this Act shall be deemed, without further action, to retain his active, inactive, or retired status in his reserve component. Any such member in an honorary Reserve status or an honorary Retired Reserve status when this Act takes effect shall be placed in the Retired Reserve of the appropriate Armed Force of the United States. (b) Any person who is on the honorary retired list of the Naval Reserve or the Marine Corps Reserve when this Act takes effect shall be placed in the Retired Reserve of the appropriate Armed Force of the United States. SEC. 214. Except in the case of the National Guard of the United States and the Air National Guard of the United States, each reserve component shall be divided into training categories according to the

62 Stat. 6 0 4; 65 Stat. 75. 50 USC app. 451.

Standby serve.

Re-

Inactive s t a t us list.

62 Stat. 1087. 10 USC 1 0 3 6 1 0 3 6 1; 3 4 US C 440h-440q.

Retention of status.

T r a i n i n g categories.

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