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(24) The term "active military, naval, or air service" includes active duty, any period of active duty for training during which the individual concerned was disabled or died from a disease or injury incurred or aggravated in line of duty, and any period of inactive duty training during which the individual concerned was disabled or died from an injury incurred or aggravated in line of duty. (25) The term "Secretary concerned" means— (A) the Secretary of the Army, with respect to matters concerning the Army; (B) the Secretary of the Navy, with respect to matters concerning the Navy or the Marine Corps; (C) the Secretary of the Air Force, with respect to matters concerning the Air Force; (D) the Secretary of the Treasury, with respect to matters concerning the Coast Guard; (E) the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, with respect to matters concerning the Public Health Service; and (F) the Secretary of Commerce, with respect to matters concerning the Coast and Geodetic Survey. (26) The term "Reserves" means members of a reserve component of one of the Armed Forces. (27) The term "reserve component" means, with respect to the Armed Forces— (A) the Army Reserve; ^B) the Naval Reserve; (C) the Marine Corps Reserve; (D) the Air Force Reserve; (E) the Coast Guard Reserve; (F) the National Guard of the United States; and (G) the Air National Guard of the United States. § 102. Dependent parents and dependent husbands (a)(1) Dependency of a parent, which may arise before or after the death of a veteran, shall be determined in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Administrator. (2) Except for purposes of chapter 33 of this title, dependency of a parent shall not be denied (A) solely because of remarriage, or (B) in any case in any State where the monthly income for a mother or father, not living together, is not more than $105, or where the monthly income for a mother and father living together, is not more than $175, plus, in either case, $45, for each additional member of the family whom the father or mother is under a moral or legal obligation to support, as determined by the Administrator. (3) For the purposes of this subsection in determining monthly income the Administrator shall not consider any payments under laws administered by the Veterans' Administration because of disability or death or payments of bonus or similar cash gratuity by any State based upon service in the Armed Forces. (b) For the purposes of this title (except chapters 19 and 33), (1) the term "wife" includes the husband of any female veteran it such husband is incapable of self-maintenance and is permanently incapable of self-support due to mental or physical disability; and (2) the term "widow" includes the widower of any female veteran if such widower is incapable of self-maintenance and was permanently incapable of self-support due to physical or mental disability at the time of the veteran's death. § 103. Special provisions relating to marriages (a) Whenever, in the consideration of any claim filed by a woman as the widow of a veteran for gratuitous death benefits under laws

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