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Retirement.

70A Stat. 409.

70A Stat. 403.

70A Stat. 404.

70A Stat. 404. Retired p a y.

70A Stat. 405.

PUBLIC LAW 85-155-AUG. 21, 1957

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(15) Section 6377 is amended by— (A) changing the caption to read as follows: "Regular Navy, line captains restricted in performance of duty, staff corps captains, and Nurse Corps commanders j Regular Marine Corps, colonels designated for supply duty: retirement for length of service or for age" (B) striking out in subsection (b) the words "Medical Service Corps" and inserting in place thereof the words "Nurse Corps"; (C) amending subsection (c) to read as follows: "(c) If not continued on the active list under section 6378 of this title, each officer serving in the grade of captain on the active list of the Navy in the Nurse Corps shall be retired on June 30 of the fiscal year in which she becomes 55 years of age or completes 30 years of active service as computed under section 6388 of this title, whichever is earlier."; (D) inserting between subsection (c) and (d) the following new subsection and relettering subsection (d) as (e): " (d) If not on a promotion list and if not continued on the active list under section 6378 of this title, each officer serving in the grade of commander on the active list of the Navy in the Nurse Corps shall be retired on June 30 of the fiscal year in which she becomes 55 years of age or completes 30 years of active service as computed under section 6388 of this title, whichever is earlier." (E) amending present subsection (d) by striking out the words "subsections (a), (b), and (c) " and inserting in place thereof the words "subsections (a) and (b)". (16) Section 6378 is amended by— (A) changing the caption to read as follows: "Regular Navy, line captains restricted in performance of duty, staff corps captains, and Nurse Corps commanders; Regular Marine Corps, colonels designated for supply duty: continuation on active list; retirement" (B) striking out in the first sentence of subsection (a) the words "except the Medical Service Corps," and inserting in place thereof a comma and the words "each officer serving in the grade of commander on the active list of the Navy in the Nurse Corps,"; (C) striking out in the second sentence of subsection (a) the words "captain or colonel" and inserting in place thereof the words "captain, colonel, or commander"; and (D) amending clause (7) of subsection (b) to read as follows: "(7) The number of captains in the Medical Corps, the Dental Corps, the Medical Service Corps and the Nurse Corps, and the number of commanders in the Nurse Corps, that the Secretary of the Navy determines to be necessary to meet the needs of the service." (17) Section 6379 is amended by— (A) striking out in subsection (a) the words "or an officer in the Medical Service Corps"; and (B) amending subsection (b) to read as follows: "(b) This section does not apply to officers in the Nurse Corps." (18) Section 6381 is amended by inserting after subsection (b) the following new subsection: "(c) The retired pay under this section of an officer in the Nurse Corps may not be less than 50 per cent of the basic pay upon which the computation of retired pay is based." (19) Section 6382 is amended by inserting in subsection (b) after the words "lieutenant (junior g r a d e) " a comma and the words "except an officer of the Nurse Corps,".

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