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P h y s i c a l examinations.

P h y s i c a l l y di s qualified pers o nnel.

Term of enlistment.

Enlistments.

64 Stat. 146. 50 USC 737.

39 Stat. 201. 32 USC 123.

D u a l m e m b ership.

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notification by competent authority which shall be given within six months from the effective date of this Act, shall agree in writing to have his current appointment continued for an indefinite term. I n the event such officer does not so agree in writing, the term of his present appointment shall not be changed by this section. All persons now enlisted in the National Guard of the United States, or the Enlisted Reserve Corps, or the Naval Reserve, or the Marine Corps Reserve, or the Air National Guard of the United States, or the Air Force Reserve, or the Coast Guard Reserve shall be considered to be enlisted as Reserves in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, or Coast Guard, as appropriate, without change in the periods of their current enlistments. SEC. 225. When not on active duty all members of the reserve components, except those in the Retired Reserve, shall be given physical examinations at least once every four years, or more often as the appropriate Secretary deems necessary, and shall be required to submit personal certificates of physical condition annually. SEC. 226. Except as otherwise provided by law, the appropriate Secretary may provide for the honorable discharge, or transfer to a retired status, of members of the reserve components who are found not physically qualified for active duty: Provided, That no member of the National Guard of the United States or Air National Guard of the United States may be so transferred without the consent of the governor or other appropriate authority of the State, Territory, or District of Columbia concerned. I n determining physical qualifications for active duty, due consideration shall be given to the character of the duty to which the member may be assigned in the event he should be ordered to active duty pursuant to law. SEC. 227. (a) Except as otherwise provided by law and subject to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, enlisted members of the reserve components shall be enlisted for such periods as the appropriate Secretary prescribes. (b) Unless sooner terminated by the appropriate Secretary, all enlistments as Reserves in the Armed Forces of the United States, in force at the beginning of a war or national emergency hereafter declared by the Congress or entered into during the existence of such war or national emergency, which otherwise would expire, shall continue in force until six months after the termination of the war or national emergency, whichever is later. (c) I n time of war or national emergency hereafter declared by the Congress, the period of service of any member of a reserve component who has been transferred thereto pursuant to law, unless sooner terminated by the appropriate Secretary, shall, if such period of service otherwise would expire, be extended until six months after the termination of the war or national emergency, whichever is later. SEC. 228. To become an enlisted member of a reserve component an individual shall be enlisted as a Reserve of an Armed Force of the United States and subscribe to the oath prescribed by section 8 of the Act of May 5, 1950, as amended, or be transferred to a reserve com]Donent pursuant to law: Provided, That no person shall become an enlisted member of the National Guard of the United States or Air National Guard of the United States, hereunder, unless he first be duly enlisted in the National Guard or Air National Guard of the appropriate State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, subscribe to the oath provided in section TO of the National Defense Act, as amended, and is a member of a federally recognized unit or organization thereof in the same grade. SEC. 229, Except as otherwise provided by this Act, no person shall be a member of more than one reserve component at the same time.

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