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PUBLIC LAW 881-AUG. 1, 1956

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TABLE OF CONTENTS—Continued P o s t, p. 880.

P o s t, p. 886.

TITLE V—AMENDMENTS AND REPEALS

Sec. 501. Amendments.. Sec. 502. Repeals. TITLE VI—^MISCELLANEOUS

Sec. 601. Application for benefits. Sec. 602. Renewal of term insurance. Sec. 603. Effective dates. DEFINITIONS

"Administrator". "Me mb e r o f a uniformed service".

"Reserve c o m p o n e n t of a uniformed service ".

"Active duty".

SEC. 102. For the purposes of this Act— (1) "Administrator" means the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs. (2) "Member of a uniformed service" means a person appointed, enlisted, or inducted in a component of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard (including a reserve component of a uniformed service), or in one of those services without specification of component, or as a commissioned officer of the Coast and Geodetic Survey or the Kegular or Reserve Corps of the Public Health Service, and any person serving in the Army or Air Force under call or conscription. The term includes— (A) a retired member of any of those services; (B) a member of the Fleet Reserve or Fleet Marine Corps Reserve; (C) a cadet at the United States Military Academy, a mid*shipman at the United States Naval Academy, and a cadet at 1 the United States Coast Guard Academy or United States Air Force Academy; (D) a member of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, the Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps, or the Air Force Reserve Officers' Training Corps, when ordered to annual training duty for fourteen days or more, and while performing authorized travel to and from that duty; and (E) any person while en route to or from, or at, a place for final acceptance or for entry upon active duty in the military or naval service— (i) who has been provisionally accepted for such duty; or (ii) who, under the Universal Military Training and Service Act, has been selected for active military or naval service; and has been ordered or directed to proceed to such place. The term does not include a temporary member of the Coast Guard Reserve. (3) "Reserve component of a uniformed service" means— (A) The Army Reserve; (B) The Naval Reserve; (C) The Marine Corps Reserve; (D) The Air Force Reserve; (E) The Coast Guard Reserve; (F) The Reserve Corps of the Public Health Service; (G) The National Guard of the United States; (H) The Air National Guard of the United States. (4) "Active duty" means (A) full-time duty performed by a member of a uniformed service in the active military or naval service, other than active duty for training, (B) full-time duty as a commisioned officer in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, or in the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service, or in the Reserve

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