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PUBLIC LAW 379-MAY 29, 1954 W a r r a n t officer grades

[68 S T A T Pay grades

Chief warrant officer, W-4 Chief warrant officer, W-3 Chief warrant officer, W-2 Warrant officer, W-1

W—4 W-3 W-2 W-1

Chief warrant officers, W-4, W - 3, and W-2, shall be persons warranted in those grades in the Army or Air Force, and persons commissioned in those grades in the Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard; warrant officers, W - 1, shall be persons warranted in that grade. A warrant officer of any one warrant officer grade shall have precedence over all warrant officers of warrant officer grades of lower numerical designation. (b) The appointment of a permanent warrant officer to higher temporary warrant or any commissioned officer grade shall not operate to vacate his permanent warrant officer grade, nor shall it in any way prejudice any right, privilege, benefit, or promotion status to which he may be entitled by virtue of his permanent warrant officer grade. DISTRIBUTION AND REDISTRIBUTION OF W A R R A N T OFFICERS

60 Stat. 28. 34 USC 3501.

f 7 USC 3^^^.*

SEC. 4. (a) AYarrant officers (including warrant officers who, on the effective date of this Act are in rece,ipt of or entitled to retired pay or retirement pay or are on the temporary disability retired list) shall, effective upon the effective date of this Act, be distributed among the grades established by section 3 of this Act as the Secretary may prescribe, and at any t,ime prior to the first day of the second month after the effective date of this Act, the Secretary is authorized to redistribute these warrant officers. Upon such distribution or redistribution, each such warrant officer shall, without further action, hold the grade in which distributed or redistributed. I n this distribution and redistribution— (1) no such warrant officer shall receive a lower permanent warrant officer grade than the one which corresponds to the warrant officer pay grade to which his status as a permanent warrant officer entitled him on the day before the effective date of this Act; (2) no such warrant officer shall receive a lower temporary warrant officer grade than the one which corresponds to the highest warrant officer pay grade to which his status entitled him on the day before the effective date of this Act; (3) a warrant officer who is entitled to retired pay or retirement pay or who is on a temporary disability retirement list shall receive the warrant officer grade which corresponds to the warrant officer pay grade in which he,is receiving retired pay, retirement pay, or physical disability retirement pay, and such distribution and redistribution shall not serve to increase or decrease the amount of such pay or any higher commissioned officer rank or grade to which he,is entitled on the day before the effective date of this Act; and (4) enlisted personnel heretofore or hereafter assigned to the Fleet Reserve and Fleet Marine Corps Reserve who have, or are entitled to have warrant grade pursuant to section 10(a) of the Act of July 24, 1941, as amended, will be distributed among the grades established by section (3) of this Act as the Secretary may prescribe. Distribution effected in accordance with th.is paragraph will not serve to decrease the retainer pay or retired pay to which these persons are entitled under section 511 of the Act of October 12, 1949, as amended. (b) Each permanent warrant officer of the regular service shall, for promotion purposes, be credited in the permanent warrant officer grade in which (distributed or redistributed under this section with such

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