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 69 S T A T. ]

PUBLIC LAW 305-AUG. 9, 1955

Training Corps, and in a reserve component, for a total period of eight years, unless sooner discharged on the grounds of personal hardship, in accordance with regulations and standards prescribed by the Secretary of Defense (or the Secretary of the Treasury with respect to the United States Coast Guard). Each person who, subsequent to the date of enactment of the Reserve Forces Act of 1955, is inducted, enlisted, or appointed, under any provision of law, in the Armed Forces, including the reserve components thereof, except a person enlisting pursuant to the provisions of section 262 of the Armed Forces Reserve Act of 1952, or a person deferred under the next to the last sentence of section 6 (d)(1) of this Act, as amended, prior to attaining the twenty-sixth anniversary of his birth, shall be required to serve on active training and service in the Armed Forces and in a reserve component, for a total period of six years, unless sooner discharged on the grounds of personal hardship, in accordance AVith regulations and standards prescribed by the Secretary of Defense (or the Secretary of the Treasury with respect to the United States Coast Guard)." (b) Section 6(c)(2) of such Act, as amended (50 U.S.C. App. 456 (c)(2)), is amended by— (1) adding at the end of clause (A) thereof the following new sentence: "No such person who has completed eight years of satisfactory service as a member of an organized unit of the National Guard, and who during such service has performed active duty for training with an armed force for not less than three consecutive months, shall be liable for induction for training and service under this Act, except after a declaration of war or national emergency made by the Congress after the date of enactment of the Reserve Forces Act of 1955/'; (2) striking out in clause (B) thereof the words "or clause (A) " and inserting in lieu thereof a comma and the words "or clause (A), clause (C), or clause (D) "; and (3) adding at the end thereof the following new clauses: " (C) Whenever the President determines that the enlisted strength of the Ready Reserve of the Army Reserve, Naval Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve, Air Force Reserve, or Coast Guard Reserve cannot be maintained at the level which he determines to be necessary in the interest of national defense, he may authorize the acceptance of enlistments in organized units of such Ready Reserve under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense. Enlistments authorized by this clause may be accepted only (i) within quotas prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, and (ii) from persons who have not been ordered to report for induction under this Act and who have not attained the age of eighteen years and six months. Any person so enlisted shall be deferred from training and service under this Act so long as he continues to serve satisfactorily as a member of an organized unit of such Ready Reserve. No person deferred under the provisions of this clause shall by reason of such deferment be liable for training and service in the Armed Forces by reason of subsection (h) of this section after he has attained the twenty-eighth anniversary of the date of his birth. " (D) Within the quotas prescribed pursuant to section 262 of the Armed Forces Reserve Act of 1952, as amended, each person deferred pursuant to the provisions of clause (C) hereof may volunteer to perform a period of active duty for training pursuant to clause (1) of subsection (c) thereof subject to the provisions of subsection (d) of such section. No such person who has completed eight years of satisfactory service as a member of an organized unit of the Ready Reserve, and who during such service

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Six-year obligation«

Ante, p. 600. P o s t, p. 604.

National G u a r d service.

A c c e p t ance of enlistments.

Ante, p. 600.

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