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

Annual training.

Voluntary active duty.

Notice.

U t i l i z a t i o n of officers.

Organized units.

Training and administration duties, etc.

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carry out our intent here declared, and shall from time to time, and at least annually, report to the Committees on Armed Services of the Congress respecting the same. (c) At any time, any unit and the members thereof, or any membar not assigned to a unit organized for the purpose of serving as such, in an active status in any reserve component may, by competent authority, be ordered to and required to perform active duty or active duty for training, without his consent, for not to exceed fifteen days annually: Provided, That units and members of the National Guard of the United States or the Air National Guard of the United States shall not be ordered to or required to serve on active duty in the service of the United States pursuant to this subsection without the consent of the Governor of the State or Territory concerned, or the Commanding General of the District of Columbia National Guard. (d) A member of a reserve component may, by competent authority, be ordered to active duty or active duty for training at any time with his consent: Provided, That no member of the National Guard of the United States or Air National Guard of the United States shall be so ordered without the consent of the Governor or other appropriate authority of the State, Territory, or District of Columbia concerned. (e) A member of a reserve component ordered into the active military service of the United States will be allowed a reasonable period of time between the date he is alerted for active duty and the date on which he is required to enter upon active duty. Such period shall be at least thirty days unless military conditions as determined by the appropriate Secretary do not permit. (f) In any expansion of the active Armed Forces of the United States which requires the ordering into the active military service involuntarily of individual officers of the reserve components who are not members of units organized for the purpose of serving as such, it shall be the policy to utilize to the greatest practicable extent the services of qualified and available officers of the reserve components in all grades in accordance with the requirements of branch, grade, and specialty. (g) Insofar as practicable, in any expansion of the active Armed Forces of the United States which requires that units and members of the reserve components be ordered into the active military service of the United States, members of units organized and trained for the purpose of serving as a unit shall be ordered involuntarily into active duty only with their units. This shall not be interpreted as prohibiting the reassignment of personnel of such units after being ordered into the active military service of the United States. SEC. 234, Members of the reserve components may with their consent, and in the case of the members of the National Guard of the United States and Air National Guard of the United States with the consent of the governor or other appropriate authority of the State, Territory, or District of Columbia concerned, be ordered to or retained on active duty to perform duties in connection with organizing, administering, recruiting, instructing, or training the reserve components. Hereafter, members ordered into the active military service of the United States under the provisions of this section shall be so ordered in the grade held by them in the Reserve of their Armed Force, and shall, while so serving, continue to be eligible for promotion in the Reserve of their Armed Force, if otherwise qualified. For the purpose of insuring that members of the reserve components ordered to or retained on duty under this section receive periodic refresher training in the various categories for which individually qualified, the appropriate Secretary may order those members to duty with any of the Armed Forces of the United States or the components thereof, or otherwise as he sees fit.

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