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PUBLIC LAW 93-365-AUG. 5, 1974

which are on active duty (other than for training) at any time during the fiscal year, and (2) the total number of individual members not in imits organized to serve as units of the Selected Reserve of such component who are on active duty (other than for training or for unsatisfactory participation in training) without their consent at any time during the fiscal year. Whenever such units or such individual members are released from active duty during any fiscal year, the average strength for such fiscal year for the Selected Reserve of such Reserve component shall be proportionately increased by the total authorized strength of such units and by the total number of such individual members. SEC. 403. (a) The average strength prescribed by section 401 of this title for the Air National Guard of the United States shall be used to man a force which shall include not less than 91 flying units in the Air National Guard during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1974. (b) I t is the policy of Congress that any increase in the ratio of aircrew to aircraft for the strategic airlift mission of the Air Force above the present ratio of crewmembers per aircraft should be achieved to the maximum extent possible through the components of the Selected Reserve and not by increasing the active duty force level of the Air Force. To carry out such policy the Secretary of Defense is directed to study the possibility of increasing the strategic airlift crew ratio per aircraft to the required levels by utilizing jointly the resources of the Air National Guard and the Air Force Reserve. Such study shall specifically include: (1) restructuring the missions of Air National Guard units so as to retain an effective strategic airlift capability within the Air National Guard and the Air Force Reserve; (2) the utilization of Air National Guard units now in existence so as to avoid the loss of existing skills in those units; (3) alternatives, including, but not limited to, transfer, rotation, "hybridization", and "association", for making available to the Air National Guard and the Air Force Reserve strategic airlift aircraft in numbers sufficient to support an effective capability; and (4) the desirability of new statutory authority for the limited selective mobilization of members of the Air National Guard under circumstances not leading to a declaration of a national emergency by the Congress or the President. The Secretary shall submit his study to the Congress not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, and before the implementation thereof, together with an evaluation of such study, a proposed schedule for its possible implementation, and such recommendations for legislative action relating to the subject matter of this section as he may deem appropriate.

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Strategic airlift crew ratio i n c r e a s e, study.

Submittal to Congress.

TITLE V—CIVILIAN PERSONNEL SEC. 501. (a)(1) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1974, and ending June 30, 1975, the Department of Defense is authorized an end strength for civilian personnel as follows: (A) The Department of the Army, 358,717; (B) The Department of the Navy, including the Marine Corps, 323,529; (C) The Department of the Air Force, 269,709; (D) Activities and agencies of the Department of Defense (other than the military departments), 75,372. (2) The end strength for civilian personnel prescribed in paragraph (1) of this subsection for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, shall be reduced by 32,327. Such reduction shall be apportioned among the Army, Navy, Air Force, and activities and agencies of the Department of Defense as the Secretary of Defense shall prescribe. The

Reduction.

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