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PUBLIC LAW 85-861-8EPT. 2, 1958

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"(e) A reserve officer who was assigned a running mate under laws in eiiect before July 1, 1955, continues to have that running mate unless assigned a new one under subsection (c). "; and (B) by inserting the following new item in the analysis:
 * 5665. Naval Reserve and Marine Corps Reserve: active status officers in permanent grades above chief warrant officer, W-4."

(126) Clause (3) of section 5752(a) is amended to read as follows: lo use 5752. "(3) Such period of service in the grade of lieutenant (junior rade) in the Navy or tirst lieutenant in the Marine Corps as the ecretary of the Navy prescribes." (127) Section 5763 is amended by adding the following new sen- 10 USC S763. tence at the end thereof: "If the computation produces an indeterminate or inequitable number, the Secretary shall furnish the board with a number that is eciuitable.*' (128) Chapter 545 is amended— 10 USC 5751(A) by inserting the following new sections after section 5787: ^^^^' "§ 5787a. Navy; lieutenants (junior grade) in Medical and Dental Corps: temporary promotion " (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an officer in the Medical Corps or the Dental Corps may be temporarily promoted to the grade of lieutenant at any time after the first anniversary of the date upon which he graduated from medical, osteopathic, or dental school, as the case may be. "(b) The Secretary of the Navy may prescribe regulations for the administration of this section. lieutenants: temporary promotion " (a) A woman officer serving on active duty in the grade of ensign in the Navy or second lieutenant in the Marine Corps may be temporarily promoted to the next higher grade under regulations prescribed by the President. " (b) The permanent appointment of a woman officer who is temporarily promoted under subsection (a) is not vacated by that temporary promotion. "(c) A woman officer temporarily promoted under subsection (a) is entitled to the pay and allowances of the higher grade from the date of her eligibility for that temporary promotion."; and (B) by inserting the following new items in the analysis:
 * §5787b. Navy, women ensigns; Marine Corps, women second

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"5787a. Navy: lieutenants (junior grade) in Medical and Dental Corps: temporary promotion. "5787b. Navy, women ensigns; Marine Corps, women second lieutenants: temporary promotion."

(129) Section 5861 is amended to read as follows: "§5861. Regular Navy and Regular Marine Corps: physical examination "Before an officer of the Regular Navy or the Regular Marine Corps may be promoted to a grade above ensign in the Navy or second lieutenant in the Marine Corps, he must qualify for promotion by passing such physical examination as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe. However, such an officer may not be excluded from a promotion to which he would otherwise be entitled if in his case the Secretary, or the Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery when authorized by the Secretary, determines that— (1) his physical disqualification was caused by wounds received in the line of duty; and

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