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competent orders, except that no credit shall be allowed for periods spent in student programs prior to receipt of the appropriate professional degree or in intern training. "(3) Any person who is called or ordered to active duty (other than for training) from a reserve component of the Armed Forces of the United States after September 5, 1960, and thereafter serves on active duty (other than for training) as a medical, dental, or allied specialist for a period of twelve months or more shall, upon release from active duty or within six months thereafter, be afforded an opportunity to resign his commission from the reserve component of which he is a member unless he is otherwise obligated to serve on active military training and service in the Armed Forces or in training in a reserve component by law or contract. "(4) Any physician or dentist who meets the qualifications for a Reserve commission in the respective military department shall, so long as there is a need for the services of such a physician or dentist, be afforded an opportunity to volunteer for a period of active duty (other than for training) of not less than twenty-four months. An^ physician or dentist who so volunteers his service, and meets the qualifications for a Reserve commission shall be ordered to active duty (other than for training) for not less than twenty-four months, notwithstanding the grade or rank to which such physician or dentist is entitled. SEC. 3. Section 4(j), Universal Military Training and Service Act, as amended (50 U.S.C. App. 454 (j)), is reenacted with the following amendments: (A) Strike out the words "as referred to in subsection (i) " in the

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(B) Strike out "fifty-first" and insert "thirty-fifth" in the last sentence of the second paragraph. SEC. 4. Section 5(a) of the Universal Military Training and Serv- Selection. ice Act (50 U.S.C. App. 455 (a)) is amended by striking out the s t " laf' ^^*' " third proviso and inserting the following in place thereof: Provided further, That nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit the President, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, from providing for the selection or induction of persons by age group or groups or from providing for the selection or induction of persons qualified in needed medical, dental, or allied specialist categories pursuant to requisitions submitted by the Secretary of Defense: And provided further, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, except sec- Aliens. tion 314 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1425), 66 Stat. 241. no person who is qualified in a needed medical, dental, or allied specialist category, and who is liable for induction under section 4 of this title, shall be held to be ineligible for appointment as a commissioned officer of an Armed Force of the United States on the sole ground that he is not a citizen of the United States or has not made a declaration of intent to become a citizen thereof, and any such person who is not a citizen of the United States and who is appointed as a commissioned officer may, in lieu of the oath prescribed by section 1757 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (5 U.S.C. 16), take such oath of service and obedience as the Secretary of Defense may prescribe:". rank. SEC. 5. Section 5 of the Universal Military Training and Service Grade or 608. 62 Stat. Act (50 U.S.C. App. 455) is amended by adding the following new subsection at the end thereof: "(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any qualified person who—

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