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types and degrees of training including the number and duration of drills or equivalent duties to be completed in stated periods of time, as the appropriate Secretary prescribes. The designation of such training categories shall be the same for each Armed Force of the United States and the same within the Keady Reserve and the Standby Reserve. SEC. 215. (a) Within such numbers as may be prescribed by the appropriate Secretary, enlisted members of the reserve components may, with their consent, be selected for training as officer candidates, and members so selected shall be designated as officer candidates for the period of such training: Provided, That when not in the active military service of the United States, no member of the National Guard of the United States or Air National Guard of the United States shall be so selected, or designated, without the consent of the governor or other appropriate authority of the State, Territory, or District of Columbia concerned. (b) Subject to any limitations imposed on the authorized numerical strength of each reserve component, the numbers of officers and enlisted personnel authorized in the various ranks, grades, and ratings shall be the numbers determined by the appropriate Secretary to be necessary to provide for planned mobilization requirements. The appropriate Secretary shall review such determinations not less than once annually and revise them as he deems necessary. No member of a reserve component shall be involuntarily reduced in his permanent rank, grade, or rating as a result of such a determination. SEC. 216, (a) The appropriate Secretary shall establish an adequate and equitable system for the promotion of members of the reserve components in an active status. Such promotion system shall, insofar as practicable, be similar to that provided for members of the Regular component of the appropriate Armed Force of the United States. Promotion policies for officers of the reserve components shall be based upon the mobilization requirements of the appropriate Armed Force of the United States in order to provide qualified officers in each grade, at ages suitable to their assignments and in numbers commensurate with mobilization needs. In order that vigorous reserve forces )nay be maintained, necessary leadership encouraged, and a steady flow of promotion provided, such promotion systems shall provide for forced attrition to the extent necessary. (b) The relative precedence of Reserve officers and Regular officers shall be determined in accordance with their respective dates of rank in grade. CHAPTER 2—APPOINTMENTS AND ENLISTMENTS

Qualif ic ations.

SEC. 217. (a) Subject to the limitation that no person, other than a person who has had prior service in the Armed Forces of the United States or the National Security Training Corps, shall be appointed or enlisted as a Reserve in the Armed Forces of the United States who is not a citizen of the United States, its Territories or possessions, or who has not made a declaration of intent to become a citizen thereof, the appropriate Secretary shall, except as otherwise provided by law, prescribe physical, mental, moral, professional, and age qualifications for appointment or enlistment of Reserve members of the Armed Forces of the United States. No person shall be appointed as a Reserve officer in any of the Armed Forces of the United States who is under the age of eighteen years. (b) Women may be appointed or enlisted as Reserves in the Armed Forces of the United States for service in the Army Reserve, the Naval Reserve, the Marine Corps Reserve, and the Air Force Reserve, as appropriate, in the same grades, ranks, and ratings, as are author-

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