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 94 STAT. 1178

PUBLIC LAW 96-357—SEPT. 24, 1980

Public Law 96-357 96th Congress An Act Sept. 24, 1980 [H.R. 5766]

>JIQ authorize additional Reserve Officers* Training Corps scholarships for the Army, to authorize the Secretary of the Army to provide that cadets awarded such scholarships may serve their obligated period of service in the Army Reserve or Army National Guard of the United States, to authorize the Secretary concerned to require an individual furnished post-secondary education by an Armed Force to reimburse the United States for the cost of such education in the event such individual fails to comply with such individual's active-duty obligation, to provide that certain full-time training duty of members of the National Guard shall be considered as active duty for training in Federal service for certain purposes, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Reserve Officers' United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) section Training Corps 2107(a) of title 10, United States Code, relating to financial assistance scholarships. f^^ specially selected members of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, is amended by striking out the period at the end of the first sentence and all of the second sentence and inserting in lieu thereof a comma and the following: "except that the age of any such member who has served on active duty in the armed forces may exceed such age limitation on such date by a period equal to the period such member served on active duty, but only if such member will be under 29 years of age on such date.". (b) Section 2107 of such title is further amended— (1) by inserting "and" at the end of clause (4) of subsection (b); (2) by striking out clauses (5) and (6) of subsection (b) and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "(5) agree in writing that, at the discretion of the Secretary of the military department concerned, he will either— "(A)(i) accept an appointment, if offered, as a commissioned officer in the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps, as the case may be, and that, if he is commissioned as a regular officer and his regular commission is terminated before the sixth anniversary of his date of rank, he will accept an appointment, if offered, in the reserve component of that armed force and not resign before that anniversary; and "(ii) serve on active duty for four or more years; or "(B)(i) accept an appointment, if offered, as a commissioned officer in the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps, as the case may be; and "(ii) serve in a reserve component of that armed force until the eighth anniversary of the receipt of such appointment, unless otherwise extended by subsection (d) of section 2108 of 10 USC 2108. this title, under such terms and conditions as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the military department concerned. The performance of service under clause (5)(B) may include periods of active duty, active duty for training, and other service in an active or inactive status in the reserve component in which appointed."; and

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