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PUBLIC LAW 497-APR. 30, 1956

Service r e d i t for l i n e a l p o s i > tion, e t c.

Boards of review.

Temporary o f f i cer.

10 USC 506d.

Tetiporary p r o motion.

Running Navy.

mat e.

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ST A T.

" (b) The doctors of medicine and doctors of dentistry appointed under this Act shall be credited for purposes of determining lineal position, permanent grade, position on a promotion list, seniority in permanent grade, and eligibility for promotion with the amount of service prescribed by the Secretary concerned, but not less than the minimum prescribed below. A doctor of medicine or doctor of dentistry appointed under this Act upon graduation from medical or dental school may not be credited with less than four years' service. A doctor of medicine appointed under this Act who has completed a one-year internship, or the equivalent thereof, may not be credited with less than five years' service, "(c) The Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force may convene boards of officers to review the records and compute the service of each officer of the Medical Corps or the Dental Corps of the Army or the Navy, and each medical or dental officer of the Air Force, appointed under any provision of law before the effective date of this amendatory Act, including those Reserve or temporary officers who are on active duty on the effective date of this amendatory Act or who enter on active duty after that date, in order to adjust the service credited to each such officer to reflect the service authorized to be credited to officers appointed under this Act. When that adjustment is made, such officers shall be given precedence for promotion purposes or advanced to a lineal position in accordance with their adjusted dates of rank, except that no officer of the Navy shall be given an adjusted date of rank in the grade of captain which is earlier than July 1, 1955. All officers of the Navy with the adjusted date of rank of July 1, 1955, in the grade of captain shall retain the precedence among themselves that they held on the effective date of this amendatory Act and shall be junior to all other officers assigned that date of rank. If, as a result of readjustment of service credit under this section— "(1) an officer of the Army or the Air Force is made eligible for promotion, he shall be considered for promotion by the next selection board considering officers of his grade and category; and " (2) an officer of the Navy attains lineal position equivalent to an officer who is serving in the next higher grade, or who is on a promotion list to that grade, he may be promoted thereto on the recommendation of a board of officers convened under this subsection, and, except as otherwise provided in this subsection, may be assigned a lineal position in the higher grade appropriate to his adjusted service credit. " (d) Each officer of the Medical Corps or the Dental Corps of the Army and each officer in the Air Force appointed with a view to designation as a medical or dental officer, who is appointed as a temporary officer under the provisions of subsection 515(e) of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947 (61 Stat. 907) after the effective date of this amendatory Act, shall upon entering on active duty be credited with the amount of service authorized by subsection (b) of this section to be credited to officers appointed under this Act." "(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including those relating to selection for promotion, a doctor of medicine or a doctor of dentistry who is appointed under this Act or any other provision of law may be temporarily promoted to the grade of captain in the Army or the Air Force, or lieutenant in the Navy, as the case may be, at any time after one year after completion of medical or dental school. "(f) An officer of the Medical Corps or Dental Corps of the Navy appointed in the grade of lieutenant (junior grade) shall be assigned

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