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

" (b) The Secretary of the Air Force shall convene selection boards, to meet at times prescribed by him, to consider persons who are eli^ble for original appointment in the Regular Air Force other than with a view to designation as medical or dental officers, or as Air Force nurses or medical specialists. Each board shall be composed of at least five commissioned officers of the Regular Air Force. A recommendation for appointment may be made only by a majority of the total membership of the board. "(c) The President may remove from the list of persons recommended by the board the name of any person who in his opinion is not qualified for appointment. " (d) The name of each person credited with service under section 8287 (a)(4) of this title who was appointed during the preceding calendar year, the grade in which appointed, and the justification therefor shall be reported before July 16 of each year, beginning in 1968, to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives." (168) Section 8286 is amended to read as follows: ''§8286. Commissioned officers: original appointment; age limi< tations " (a) A person may not be originally appointed in a commissioned grade in the Regular Air Force, except with a view to designation as a medical or dental officer or as an Air Force nurse or medical specialist, if on the date of his appointment he has already passed his thirtieth birthday. However, the maximum age— "(1) is increased by the period of active commissioned service in the armed forces performed after the appointee became 21 years of age and before his appointment; and "(2) may be waived by the Secretary of the Air Force for any category in which, in his opinion, there are not enough officers with the required qualifications. " (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), a person may not be originally appointed in a commissioned grade in the Regular Air Force, except with a view to designation as a medical or dental officer or as an Air Force nurse or medical specialist, if he is above the age that would permit him to complete 20 years of active commissioned service in the armed forces before his fifty-fifth birthday." (169) Section 8287 is amended to read as follows: ''§ 8287. Commissioned officers: original appointment; service credit " (a) For the purpose of determining grade, position on a promotion list, seniority in his grade in the Regular Air Force, and eligibility for promotion, a person originally appointed in a commissioned grade in the Regular Air Force, other than a person appointed with a view to designation as a medical or dental officer or as an Air Force nurse or medical specialist, shall be credited, at the time of his appointment— "(1) with the active commissioned service in the armed forces that he performed after becoming 21 years of age and before his appointment; "(2) three years, if he is appointed in the Regular Air Force with a view to designation as a chaplain, judge advocate, or veterinary officer; "(3) under such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, three years, if he is appointed in the Regular Air Force with a view to designation as a medical service officer and if he holds a degree of doctor of philosophy or a comparable degree in a science allied to medicine, so recognized by the Secretary;

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