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214 214 § 3693. Replacement of certificate of discharge If satisfactory proof is presented that a person who was discharged honorably or under honorable conditions has lost his certificate of discharge from the Army or that it was destroyed without his procurement or connivance, the Secretary may give that person, or his surviving spouse, a certificate of that discharge, indelibly marked to show that it is a certificate in place of the lost or destroyed certificate. A certificate given under this subsection may not be accepted as a voucher for the payment of a claim against the United States for pay, bounty, or other allowance, or as evidence in any other case. CHAPTER 355.—HOSPITALIZATION Sec. 3721. Members of Army, other than of Regular Army. 3722. Members of R. O. T. C. and C. M. T. C.; members of Army not covered by section 3721 of this title. 3723. When Secretary may require.

§ 3721. Members of Army, other than of Regular Army A member of the Army, other than of the Regular Army, is entitled to the hospital benefits provided by law or regulation for a member of the Regular Army of corresponding grade and length of service, whenever— (1) he is called or ordered to active duty for a period of more than 30 days, and is disabled in line of duty from disease while so employed; or (2) he is called or ordered to active duty, or to perform inactive-duty training, for any period of time, and is disabled in line of duty from injury while so employed. § 3722. Members of R. O. T. C. and C. M. T. C.; members of Army not covered by section 3721 of this title (a) Under such regulations as the President may prescribe, the following persons are entitled to the benefits of subsection (b): (1) Each Reserve of the Army, and each officer who has no regular or reserve appointment and who is injured, or contracts a disease, in line of duty while on active duty in time of peace. (2) Each member of the Army Reserve who is injured in line of duty while not on active duty and while voluntarily participating in an aerial flight in a Government-owned aircraft under proper authority and as an incident to training. (3) Each member of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, or person attending a Citizens' Military Training Camp, who is injured, or contracts a disease, in line of duty while traveling to or from, or while attending, a training camp under section 4385 or 4411 of this title. (b) So far as any benefit named in this subsection is not provided for him under section 3721 of this title, any person named in subsection (a) is entitled to— (1) the hospitalization, rehospitalization, and medical and surgical care in a hospital and at his home appropriate for the treatment of his injury or disease until the resulting disability cannot be materially improved by further hospitalization o r treatment;

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