Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 94 Part 3.djvu/238

 94 STAT. 2882

PUBLIC LAW 96-513—DEC. 12, 1980

data for the year in which the person being appointed was admitted to a professional school. However, a person may not receive additional credit under this clause if the amount of his baccalaureate education does not exceed, by one or more, the minimum number of years of preprofessional education required by a majority of institutions which award degrees for that health profession, determined on the basis prescribed in the preceding sentence. "(F) Additional credit for experience as a physician or dentist, if appointed in the Medical or Dental Corps. "(2) Except as authorized by the Secretary of the Army in individual cases and under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense in the case of a medical or dental officer, the amount of constructive service credited an officer under this subsection may not exceed the amount required in order for the officer to be eligible for an original appointment in the grade of major. "(3) Constructive service credited an officer under this subsection is in addition to any service credited that officer under subsection (a) and shall be credited at the time of the original appointment of the officer. "(c) Constructive service may not be credited under subsection (b) for education, training, or experience obtained while serving in an active status. "(d) If the Secretary of Defense determines that the number of qualified judge advocates serving on active duty in the Army in grades below major is critically below the number needed by the Army in such grades, he may authorize the Secretary of the Army to credit any person receiving an original appointment in the Judge Advocate General's Corps with a view to an immediate call to active duty with a period of constructive service in such an amount (in addition to any period of service credited such person under subsection (b)(1)) as will result in the grade of such person being that of captain and the date of rank of such person being junior to that of all other officers of the same grade serving on active duty.". (b) Section 8353, relating to the appointment and service credit of reserve commissioned officers of the Air Force, is amended to read as follows: 10 USC 8353.

"§ 8353. Commissioned officers: service credit upon original appointment 10 USC 3351 et "(a)(1) For the purpose of chapters 337 and 363 of this title and seq., 3843 et seq. under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, a person receiving an original appointment as a reserve commissioned officer in the Air Force shall be credited at the time of such appointment with any service as a commissioned officer, except service as a commissioned warrant officer, that he performed in an active status in any armed force before such appointment. Regulations. "(2) The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe regulations to authorize the Secretary of the Air Force to limit the amount of prior commissioned service with which a person receiving an original appointment may be credited under paragraph (1), or to deny any such credit, in the case of a person who at the time of such appointment is credited with constructive service under subsection (b). "(b)(1) Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of the Air Force shall credit a person who is receiving an original appointment as a reserve commissioned officer in the Air Force and who has advanced education or training or special experi-

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