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STAT.]

PUBLIC LAW

84-JUNE

29, 1953

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reserve component of the Armed Forces of the United States, shall, if he makes application therefor, be released to inactive duty, discharged, or afforded an opportunity to-resign his commission, as otherwise provided in the Act of September 9, 1950, as amended, as soon as prac- n^ft^.^^*^^*'**'*'' ticable, but in no event later than ninety days after the effective date of this amendatory Act: Provided, That no person required to register under section 3 of the Universal Military Training and Service Act, as |^ us*capp*.4S3. amended, shall have his commission terminated under the provisions of the Act of September 9, 1950, as amended. SEC. 5. Persons in medical, dental, and allied specialist categories sf^vV^^cTmLlT^ ordered to active duty under the provisions of the Universal Military sions. Training and Service Act, as amended, or under this amendatory Act, who hold a commission in a reserve component of the Armed Forces, 5ousc*app!45i. or in the Army of the United States without component or Air Force of the United States without component which by operation of law would expire before the end of the period of active duty which they may be required to serve under the provisions of the Act of September 9, 1950, as amended, may be retained on active duty until they have completed such period of duty and such commissions shall be deemed to be continued in effect until the date of their release from active duty. SEC. 6. (a) Section 4(i)(2) of the Universal Military Training and Service Act (64 Stat. 826), as amended, is amended by striking 454/°).^® ^ ^^^' out the words "twenty-one months" where it appears therein and inserting in lieu thereof "seventeen months". (b) Section 4(i)(2) of the Universal Military Training and Service Act (64 Stat. 826), as amended, is amended by striking out 454/°)"®'^ ®PP* the words "subsequent to the completion of or release from the program or course of instruction", where it appears in two instances. SEC. 7. Any physician or dentist who meets the qualifications for ^0^°*""***' serva reserve commission in the respective military departments shall, so long as there is a need for the services of such a physician or dentist, be afforded an opportunity to volunteer for a period of active duty of not less than twenty-four months. Any physician or dentist ' \ who so volunteers his service, and meets the qualifications for a reserve commission shall be ordered to active duty for not less than twentyfour months, notwithstanding the grade or rank to which such physician or dentist is entitled under the provisions of the Act of September 9, 1950, as amended. 45^1?nVtl.^ ^^^' SEC. 8. Section 203 of the Career Compensation Act of 1949, as offSeJ^!^^"^*"'*** amended, is amended (1) by deleting in subsection (a) thereof, the Physicians and date "July 1, 1953", wherever it appears therein, and inserting in lieu ***6*"Stat. 809; 66 thereof the date "July 1, 1955"; (2) by deleting in subsection (b) ^*37^c'234 thereof, "subsection (a) " where it first appears therein, and inserting in lieu thereof "subsections (a) and (c) "; and (3) by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: "(c) Effective July 1, 1953, the term 'commissioned officer', as used veterinarians, in this section, shall, in addition to those categories defined in subsection (a) hereof, include (1) those commissioned officers in the Veterinary Corps of, or designated as veterinary officers in, the Regular Army and Air Force and commissioned veterinary officers of the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service who are on active duty on the date of enactment of this subsection; (2) those commissioned officers of the Veterinary Corps of, or designated as veterinary officers in, the Regular Army and Air Force and commissioned veterinary officers of the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service, who were retired prior to the date of enactment of this subsection and who thereafter but prior to July 1, 1955, have been or may be assigned to active duty; (3) those officers who subsequent to the date of enactment of this subsection but prior to July 1, 1955, may be commissioned

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