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Command: commissioned officers of Army Medical Service (a) A commissioned officer of the Army Medical Service, other than an officer of the Army Nurse Corps or Women's Medical Specialist Corps, is not entitled to exercise command because of his rank, except within the Army Medical Service. (b) An officer of the Army Nurse Corps or Women's Medical Specialist Corps may exercise command only within her own branch, or over persons placed under her charge. §3580.

Command: commissioned officers of Women's Army Corps The Secretary of the Army shall prescribe the military authority that commissioned officers of the Women's Army Corps may exercise.

§3581. Command: chaplains A chaplain has rank without command. §3582. Command: retired officers A retired officer has no right to command except when on active duty. CHAPTER 347.—THE UNIFORM Sec.

3611. President may prescribe. 3612. Uniforms: disposition on discharge.

§3611. President may prescribe The President may prescribe the uniform of the Army. §3612. Uniforms: disposition on discharge (a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c), when an enlisted member of the Army is discharged, the exterior articles of uniform in his possession that were issued to him, other than those articles that he may wear from the place of discharge to his home, under section 772(d) of this title, shall be retained for military use. (b) When an enlisted member of the Army is discharged for bad conduct, undesirability, unsuitability, inaptitude, or otherwise than honorably, the exterior articles of uniform in his possession shall be retained by the Army for military use. However, when authorized by regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Army, a suit of civilian outer clothing, and a civilian overcoat if necessary, costing together not more than $30, may be issued to that person. (c) When an enlisted member of the Army National Guard who has been called into Federal service is released from that service, the exterior articles of uniform in his possession shall be accounted for as property issued to the Army National Guard of the State or Territory, Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone, or the District of Columbia of whose Army National Guard he is a member, as prescribed in section 708 of title 32.

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