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O b l i g a t i o n of funds.

Tables of organization and equipment.

Combat Duty Pay Act of 1952.

PUBLIC LAW 4 8 8 - J U L Y 10, 1952

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tribiition of supplies or equipment or related supply management functions, except in accordance with regulations issued by the Secretary of Defense. (b) This section shall be effective sixty days after the approval of this Act. SEC. 639. No part of the funds appropriated in this Act for procurement which are limited for obligation during fiscal year 1953 shall be obligated during the last two months of the fiscal year at a monthly rate more than 126 per centum of the average monthly rate of obligation during the first ten months of the year. SEC. 640. The Secretary of Defense is hereby directed to submit revised tables of organization and tables of equipment of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps to the Congress, together with recommendations for decreasing the number of personnel positions, clerical positions, supply positions, and other administrative positions so that the combat effectiveness of our Armed Forces may be improved. TITLE VII COMBAT DUTY P A T

Definitions.

63 Stat. 802. 37 USC 231 note.

26 USC 22 note.

SEC. 701. This title may be cited as the "Combat Duty Pay Act of 1952". SEC. 702. As used in this title— (a) The terms "uniformed services", "member", "officer", and "secretary" (except as hereinafter specifically provided) shall have the meaning prescribed for such terms by section 102 of the Career Compensation Act of 1949, and the terms incentive pay" and "special pay" shall mean the pay authorized by section 203, 204, or 205 of such Act. (b) The term "member", when used in relation to any combat unit, means any member of the uniformed services serving and present with, or on board, such unit under competent orders. (c) The term "combat unit" means— (1) any military unit, not larger than a regiment, while such unit is engaged in actual combat on land; or (2) any element of, or detail of personnel from, any military unit not larger than a regiment, while such element or detail is subjected to hostile ground fire in the course of rendering aid or assistance (A) directly to a military unit, not larger than a battalion, which is engaged in actual combat on land, or (B) by fire to any military unit engaged in actual combat on land; or (3) any military unit (not larger than a regiment) engaged in any amphibious or airborne operation, while subjected to hostile ground fire in the course of rendering aid or assistance, to a military unit which is engaged in actual combat on land, by the performance of duties which require its employment at or near a beach or airhead; or (4) any vessel Avhile subjected to hostile fire or explosion in the course of any operation; or (5) any aircraft while subjected to hostile fire in the courso of any operation. (d) the^term "actual combat on land" means direct contact with and opposition to a hostile force by any military unit while tuch unit is subjected to hostile ground fire. (e) the term "military unit" means any unit of any of the uniformed services other than a vessel or aircraft. (f) the term "Korea" shall mean the geographical area specified for income-tax-exemption purposes by Executive Order 10195, approved December 20, 1950.

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