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Relief from l i ability.

Integrity of units.

Relief from a c tive duty.

Personnel.

Status of service.

32 USC 6 3 - 6 5, 144-146, 183, 186.

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

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date of the orders and for so long as they remain on active duty in the service of the United States. During such active duty in the service of the United States, they shall be subject to the laws and regulations applicable to members of the Army and Air Force. SEC. 711. Upon ordering any portion of the National Guard of the United States or of the Air National Guard of the United States into the active military service of the United States, the President may relieve the State, Territory, or District of Columbia concerned of such accountability and liability under such terms and conditions as he may prescribe for any United States property theretofore issued to it for the use of such portion of the National Guard of the United States or of the Air National Guard of the United States. SEC. 712. (a) During the initial mobilization, insofar as practicable, the organization of units of the National Guard of the United States and of the Air National Guard of the United States existing at the date of an order to active Federal service shall be maintained intact. (b) Upon being relieved from active duty, insofar as practicable, units, organizations, and individuals shall be returned to the National Guard and Air National Guard in their respective States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, together with sufficient arms and equipment as determined by the appropriate Secretary to accomplish their peacetime mission. SEC. 713. (a) When officers and enlisted members of the National Guard of the United States or of the Air National Guard of the United States are ordered into Federal service they shall be ordered to active duty in their status as Reserve officers and Reserve enlisted member^ of the Army or Air Force. (b) When the National Guard of the United States or the Air National Guard of the United States is ordered into the active military service of the United States, officers of the National Guard and of the Air National Guard who do not hold appointments as Reserve officers of the Army or Air Force may be so appointed by the President in the same grade and branch held by them in the National Guard or Air National Guard. SEC. 714. For the purposes of all laws now or hereafter enacted providing benefits for members of the National Guard of the United States and of the Air National Guard of the United States and their dependents and beneficiaries— (a) All military training, duties, and service performed by members of the National Guard of the United States or members of the Air National Guard of the United States while in their status as members of the National Guard or Air National Guard of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, for which they are entitled by law to receive pay from the United States, shall be considered military training, duties, and service in the service of the United States performed by them as Reserve members of the Army or Air Force. (b) The full-time training or other full-time duty performed by memDers of the National Guard of the United States or members of the Air National Guard of the United States while in their status as members of the National Guard or Air National Guard of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia pursuant to sections 94, 97, 99, and 113 of the National Defense Act, as amended, for which they are entitled to receive pay from the United States or without pay as provided in section 240 of this Act shall be considered active duty for training in the service of the United States as Reserve members of the Army or Air Force: Provided, That from the date of enactment of this Act such duty for a period of thirty days or more shall be considered active service as members of the Armed Forces for the pur-

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