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PUBLIC LAW 476-JULY 9, 1952

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practicable, the regulations for all the reserve components shall be uniform. SEC. 252. Each of the Armed Forces of the United States shall have officer members of its reserve components on active duty, at the seat of the Government and at such headquarters as are charged with responsibility for reserve affairs, in addition to those authorized pursuant to the provisions of sections 5 and 81 of the National Defense ^^^^' ^^ amended, or any other provision of law, within such numbers and in such grades and duty assignments as the appropriate Secretary shall prescribe, to assist and participate in the preparation and administration of all policies and regulations affecting their reserve component. While so serving such officers shall be considered as additional numbers of the staff with which serving. SEC. 253. The appropriate Secretary shall detail such members of the Regular and reserve components as may be necessary for effectively developing, training, instructing, and administering the reserve components. SEC. 254. (a) All boards convened for the appointment, promotion, demotion, involuntary release from active duty, discharge, or retirement of members of the reserve components shall include appropriate numbers from the reserve components, as prescribed by the appropriate Secretary in accordance with standards and policies established by the Secretary of Defense. (b) The members of all boards convened for selection for promotion or for the discharge or demotion of members of the reserve components shall be senior to the members under consideration, except that a member of a board serving in a legal advisory capacity may be junior to any person, other than a judge advocate or a law specialist, being considered and that a member of a board serving in a medical advisory capacity may be junior to any person, other than a medical officer, being considered. SEC. 255. (a) The appropriate Secretary shall make available to each reserve component such supplies, equipment, services, and facilities of the Armed Forces of the United States as he may deem necessary and advisable for the support and development of the reserve components. (b) The appropriate Secretary or his authorized representative may issue supplies and equipment of the appropriate Armed Force of the United States to the reserve components without charging the cost or value thereof, or any expenses in connection therewith, against or in any way affecting the appropriation provided for the reserve components: Provided, That the appropriate Secretary finds it to be in the best interests of the United States to issue such equipment and supplies: And provided further, That any such equipment and supplies so furnished may, pursuant to this section, be repossessed or redistributed as the appropriate Secretary may prescribe. This subsection shall not apply to supplies and equipment issued to the National Guard and Air National Guard of the several States, Territories, and ^]^g District of Columbia, under sections 67 and 84, National Defense Act, as amended, but applies to supplies and equipment issued in addition thereto. (c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to repeal, limit, or modify in any manner t\v^ provisions of sections 67 and 84, National Defense Act, as amended. (d) I t is the seusc of the Congress that the National Defense Facili^^^^ ^^^ ^^ l^^O bc authorizcd to be implemented immediately upon the enactment of this Act. QEC. 256. (a) The Secretary of Defense shall designate an Assistant Secretary of Defense who shall, in addition to other dutievS, have the

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