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chapter which shall be a report of the Reserve Forces Policy Board on the status of the reserve programs of the Department of Defense. SEC. 258. Each Armed Force of the United States shall maintain adequate and current personnel records of each member of its reserve components, indicating the physical condition, dependency status, military qualifications, civilian occupational skills, availability, and such other data as the appropriate Secretary may prescribe. SEC. 259. The Secretary of Defense is directed to require the comproplete and up-to-date dissemination of information of interest to the reserve components to all members of the reserve components and to the public in general. P A R T III — R E S E R V E C O M P O N E N T S OF THE ARMY

Women.

SEC. 301. The National Guard of the United States and the Army Reserve are reserve components of the Army. All officers and enlisted members of the National Guard of the United States and all officers and enlisted members of the Army Reserve are Reserve officers and Reserve enlisted members, respectively, of the Army. SEC. 302. The Organized Reserve Corps is redesignated as the Army Reserve. SEC. 303. The Army Reserve includes all Reserve officers and Reserve enlisted members of the Army other than those who are members of the National Guard of the United States. SEC. 304. Except as otherwise specifically provided, all laws now or hereafter applicable to male officers and former officers of the Army Reserve, to enlisted men and former enlisted men of the Army Reserve, and to their dependents and beneficiaries shall in like cases be applicable respectively to female Reserve officers and female former Reserve officers of the Army Reserve, to Reserve enlisted women and former Reserve enlisted women of the Army Reserve, and to their dependents and beneficiaries except as may be necessary to adapt said provisions to the female persons in the Army Reserve. The husbands of women members of the Army Reserve shall not be considered dependents unless they are in fact dependent on their wives for over half of their support, and the children of such members shall not be considered dependents unless they are in fact dependent on their mother for over half of their support.

PART IV—RESERVE COMPONENTS OF THE NAVY, MARINE CORPS, AND COAST GUARD SEC. 401. The Naval Reserve is the reserve component of the Navy. SEC, 402. The Marine Corps Reserve is the reserve component of the Marine Corps. SEC. 403. The Coast Guard Reserve is the reserve component of the Coast Guard. SEC. 404. The Naval Reserve shall be organized, administered, trained, and supplied under the direction of the Chief of Naval Operations. The bureaus and offices of the Navy shall hold the same relation and responsibility to the Naval Reserve as they do to the Regular Establishment. SEC. 405. The Marine Corps Reserve shall be organized, administered, trained, and supplied under the direction of the Commandant of the Marine Corps. The departments and offices of the Marine Corps shall hold the same relation and responsibility to the Marine Corps Reserve as they do to the Regular Establishment.

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