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PUBLIC LAW 86-861-SEPT. 2, 1968

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in an active status prescribed in section 3353 of title 10, United States Code, as a minimum amount of service for that branch or the Women's Army Corps, as the case may be. RETENTION OF WOMEN LIEUTENANTS ON THE ACTIVE LIST OF THE NAVY AFTER 13 YEARS OF ACTIVE COMMISSIONED SERVICE SEC. 23. (a) Until June 15, 1960, the Secretary of the Navy, when he determines that the needs of the service so require, shall furnish to each selection board convened under section 5704(a) or (b) of title 10, United States Code, the number of women officers in the grade of lieutenant who will complete 13 years of active commissioned service in the Navy in the current fiscal year and who, if not selected for promotion to the next higher grade, may be recommended to be retamed on the active list until June 30 of the fiscal year in which they complete 15 years of active commissioned service in the Navy. (b) A woman officer who is recommended by a selection board for retention on the active list under subsection (a) may not be discharged under section 6401 of title 10, United States Code. (c) Each woman officer on the active list of the Navv in the grade of lieutenant who is recommended by a selection board for retention on the active list under subsection (a) shall, if not sooner selected for promotion to the next higher grade, be honorably discharged on June 30 of the fiscal year in which she completes 15 years of active commissioned service in the Navy. Each officer discharged under this section is entitled to a lump-sum payment equal to 24 times the monthly basic pay to which she was entitled at the time of discharge.

TEMPORARY INCREASE IN AUTHORIZED STRENGTH OF MARINE CORPS RESERVE IN MAJORS AND CAPTAINS SEC. 24. If the Secretary of the Navy believes that, in order to permit promotions under chapter 549 of title 10, United States Code, it is necessary to increase the strengths of the Marine Corps Reserve in officers in an active status in the permanent grades of major and captain authorized by section 5458 of title 10, he may, until July 1, 1960, increase these strengths to the following percentages of the number of officers in an active status in the Marine Corps Reserve holding permanent appointments in the grades of second lieutenant through colonel: (1) Major—22 percent. (2) Captain—45 percent. To permit these increases the Secretary may reduce to 25 percent the percentage of reserve officers in an active status in the permanent grades of first and second lieutenant combined.

PROMOTION OF OFFICERS OF THE NAVAL RESERVE AND MARINE CORPS RESERVE SELECTED FOR PROMOTION BEFORE JULY 1 1 5 ,96 SEC. 25. Officers of the Naval Reserve and the Marine Corps Reserve who were selected for promotion before July 1, 1955, under regulations promulgated under section 216(a) of the Armed Forces Beserve Act of 1952 may be promoted under chapter 549 of title 10, United States Code, with the date of rank and entitlement to pay and allowances prescribed by that chapter.


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