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 94 STAT. 2896

Medical or dental experience, credit.

PUBLIC LAW 96-513—DEC. 12, 1980

tion required by a majority of institutions which award degrees in that health profession. The percentage of such persons shall be computed on an annual basis for each health profession from the 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 Navy 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 lieutenant commander or 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 Navy or the Marine Corps in grades below lieutenant commander or major is critically below the number needed by the Navy or Marine Corps, respectively, in such grades, he may authorize the Secretary of the Navy to credit any person to whom this section applies who is receiving an original appointment in the Judge Advocate General's Corps of the Navy, or who is receiving an original appointment in the Marine Corps with a view to designation as a judge advocate, with a period of constructive service in such an amount (in addition to any amount credited such person under subsection (b)) as will result in the grade of such person, if ordered to active duty, being that of lieutenant, in the case of an officer of the Navy, or captain, in the case of an officer of the Marine Corps, and the date of rank of such person being junior to that of all other officers of the same grade serving on active duty in the Navy or Marine Corps, as the case may be." REPEAL OF SECTION AUTHORIZING DIRECT PROCUREMENT OF ENSIGNS AND SECOND UEUTENANTS

SEC. 329. Section 6909, relating to direct procurement of ensigns and second lieutengmts, is repealed. PART D—AMENDMENTS RELATING TO PROMOTIONS, SEPARATION, AND INVOLUNTARY RETIREMENT OF COMMISSIONED OFFICERS REPEAL OF CHAPTER PROVIDING

FOR APPOINTMENTS

TO FLEET

COM-

M A N D S AND OTHER POSITIONS OF IMPORTANCE AND RESPONSIBILITY

10 USC 5231 et seq.

SEC. 331. Chapter 517, relating to certain positions carrying the grade of admiral, vice admiral, general, or lieutenant general, is repealed.

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