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PUBLIC LAW 87-378-OCT. 4, 1961

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Public Law 87-378 AN ACT

To provide for more effective participation in the reserve components of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.

October 4, 1961

[H. R. 5490]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Armed United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 6 of reserves. Forces the Universal Military Training and Service Act, as amended (50 U.S.C. App. 456), is amended— ^9 Stat. 604. (1) by amending subsection (c)(2)(E) to read as follows: " (E) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the President^ under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, may provide that any person enlisted in the Keady Reserve of any reserve component of the Armed Forces pursuant to authority conferred by this paragraph or under section 262 of the Armed Forces Reserve Act of 1952, as amended, or any member of the 69 Stat. eoo. National Guard deferred from training and service by clause ^° ^^^ ^°^^' (A) of this paragraph, or any person enlisted or appointed in the Ready Reserve of any reserve component of the armed forces (other than under section 511(b) of title 10, United States Code), 72 Stat. 1439. the Army National Guard, or the Air National Guard after the effective date of this amended clause, but prior to his attaining the age of 26, who fails to serve satisfactorily as a member of such Ready Reserve or National Guard or the Ready Reserve of another reserve component of which he becomes a member may be selected for training and service and inducted into the armed force of which such reserve component is a part, prior to the selection and induction of other persons liable therefor."; and (2) by striking out the words "in such unit" in the seventh and eighth sentences of subsection (d)(1) and amending the fifth and sixth sentences of that subsection to read as follows: "If, at the time of, or subsequent to, such appointment, the armed force in which such person is commissioned does not require his service on active duty in fulfillment of the obligation undertaken by him in compliance with clause (B) of the first sentence of this paragraph, such person shall be ordered to active duty for training with such armed force in the grade in which he was commissioned for a period of active duty for training of not less than three months or more than six months (not including duty performed under section 270(a) of title 10, United States Code), as deter- 72 Stat. 1438. mined by the Secretary of the military department concerned to be necessary to quality such person for a mobilization assignment. Upon being commissioned and assigned to a reserve component, such person shall be required to serve therein, or in a reserve component of any other armed force in which he is later appointed, until the eighth anniversary of the receipt of such commission pursuant to the provisions of this section". SEC. 2. Section 270 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding the following new subsection at the end thereof: "(c) Any person who becomes a member of the Army National ti^aTau^rd u^ts Guard of the United States or the Air National Guard of the United States after the enactment of this subsection and who fails in any year to perform satisfactorily the training duty prescribed by or under law for members of the Army National Guard or the Air National Guard, as the case may be, as determined by the Secretary concerned, may, upon the request of the Governor of the State or territory, Puerto Rico, or the Canal Zone, or the commanding general of the District of

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