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193 193 §3312. Officers: acceptance of promotion (a) An officer who is promoted in the Kegular A n n y is considered to have accepted his promotion on the date of the order annomicing it, unless he expressly declines the promotion. H e is entitled to the pay and allowances of the higher grade from that date, unless entitled to them from an earlier date under another provision of law. (b) An officer need not take the oath of office upon promotion if his service since last taking it has been continuous. § 3313. Suspension of laws for promotion or mandatory retirement or separation during war or emergency I n time of war, or of emergency declared by Congress or the President, the President may suspend the operation of any provision of law relating to promotion, or mandatory retirement or separation, of commissioned officers of the Regular Army. CHAPTER 337.—APPOINTMENTS AS RESERVE OFFICERS Sec. 3351. Officers: Army National Guard of United States. 3352. Officers; Army Reserve: transfer from Army National Guard of United States. 3354. Commissioned officers; Army Reserve: appointment of warrant officers and enlisted members of Army National Guard of United States. 3355. Commissioned officers; Army Reserve: appointment; R. O. T. C. graduates. 3357. Female commissioned officers; Army Reserve: for service in Army Nurse Corps or Women's Medical Specialist Corps. 3394. Officers: acceptance of promotion. S395. During war. § 3351. OflBcers: Army National Guard of United States (a) Upon being federally recognized, an officer of the Army National Guard shall be appointed as a Reserve for service as a member of the Army National Guard of the United States in the grade that he holds in the Army National Guard. However, an officer of the Army Reserve who is federally recognized as an officer of the Army National Guard becomes an officer of the Army National Guard of the United States and ceases to be an officer of the Army Reserve. The acceptance of an appointment as a Reserve for service as a member of the Army National Guard of the United States by an officer of the Army National Guard does not vacate his office in the Army National Guard. (b) When an officer of the Army National Guard to whom temporary Federal recognition has been extended is appointed as a Reserve for service as a member of the Army National Guard of the United States, his appointment shall bear the date of the temporary recognition and shall be considered to have been accepted and effective on that date. (c) When the Army National Guard of the United States is ordered to active duty, any officer of the Army National Guard who is not a Reserve of the Army may be appointed by the President as a Reserve for service as a member of the Army National Guard of the United States in the grade that he holds in the Army National Guard.

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