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PUBLIC LAW 8 5 - 8 6 1 - S E P T. 2, 1958

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(B) by adding the following new items at the end of the analysis: "5414. Naval Reserve and Marine Corps Reserve: officers in an active status in permanent grades above chief warrant officer, W-4. "5415. Enlisted members serving as midshipmen or cadets excluded. "5416. Personnel detailed outside Department of Defense. "5417. Estimate of future regular commissioned officer strength." (111) Section 5452 is amended to read as follows:

"§ 5452. Navy: women line officers on the active list; permanent lo use 5452. grade " (a) The numbers of women officers on the active list in the line of the Navy holding permanent appointments in the grades of commander and lieutenant commander may not exceed, respectively, 10 percent and 20 percent of the number of women officers on the active list in the line of the Navy. The Secretary of the Navy, whenever the needs of the service require but at least once annually, shall compute the number of women officers authorized under this section to hold permanent appointments in each of these grades. The number so computed for each grade is the number of women officers on the active list in the line of the Navy prescribed for that permanent grade. The Secretary may, however, determine a lesser number for each grade and, if he determines a lesser number for the grade of commander only, he may determine a number for the grade of lieutenant commander that exceeds the computed number for that grade bj' the amount of the difference between the computed and determined numbers for the grade of commander. The numbers so determined become the prescribed numbers for the grades concerned until the next computations and determinations are made. " (b) During the period between one computation and the next, the number of officers prescribed for the grade of lieutenant commander under subsection (a) is temporarily increased by the number of officers of that grade for whom vacancies exist in the grade of commander but whose promotion to the grade of commander is delayed for any reason." (112) Section 5453 is amended— (A) by striking out the words "as of January 1 of each year" 10 USC 5453. in the second sentence and inserting the words "whenever the needs of the service require but at least once annually" in place thereof; (B) by striking out the word "annual" in the fifth sentence; and (C) by striking out the words "annual" and "succeeding computation" in the sixth sentence. (113) Chapter 533 is amended— ^J^P^,^^^^' ^'*^'" 545 6. (A) by adding the following new sections at the end thereof; "§ 5457. Naval Reserve: officers in an active status in permanent grades above chief warrant officer, W-4 " (a) The authorized strength of the Naval Reserve in officers in an active status in the permanent grade of rear admiral is 48, distributed among the line and the staff corps as follows: "(1) Line—28. "(2) Medical Corps—7. "(3) Supply Corps—8. "(4) Chaplain Corps—1. "^5) Civil Engineer Corps—2. "(6) Dental Corps—2. " (b) The authorized strengths of the Naval Reserve in line officers in an active status in the permanent grades of captain, commander, lieutenant commander, and lieutenant, and in the permanent gra(ies of

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