108 STAT. 2824 PUBLIC LAW 103-337—OCT. 5, 1994 SEC. 904. NATIONAL GUARD BUREAU CHARTER. (a) IN GENERAL. —Subtitle E of title 10, United States Code, as added by section 1611, is amended by inserting ^er chapter 1009, as added by section 1661(b), the following new chapter: "CHAPTER 1011—NATIONAL GUARD BUREAU "10501 "10502 National Guard Bureau. Chief of the National Guard Bureau: appointment; adviser on National Guard matters; grade. 10503. Functions of National Guard Bureau: charter from Secretaries of the Army and Air Force. Chief of National Guard Bureau: annual report. Vice Chief of the National Guard Bureau. Other senior National Guard Bureau officers. Definition. "10504. "10505. "10506. "10508. Establishment. "§ 10501. National Guard Bureau "(a) NATIONAL GUARD BUREAU.— There is in the Department of Defense the National Guard Bureau, which is a joint bureau of the Department of the Army and the Department of the Air Force. "(b) PURPOSES.— The National Guard Bureau is the channel of communications on all matters pertaining to the National Gusird, the Army National Guard of the United States, and the Air National Guard of the United States between (1) the Department of the Army and Department of the Air Force, and (2) the several States. "§ 10502. Chief of the National Guard Bureau: appointment; adviser on National Guard matters; grade "(a) APPOINTMENT. —T here is a Chief of the National Guard Bureau, who is responsible for the organization and operations President. of the National Guard Bureau. The Chief of the National Guard Bureau is appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Such appointment shall be made from officers of the Army National Guard of the United States or the Air National Guard of the United States who— "(1) are recommended for such appointment by their respective Governors or, in the case of the District of Columbia, the commanding general of the District of Colimibia National Gueird; "(2) have had at least 10 years of federally recognized commissioned service in an active status in the National Guard; and "(3) are in a grade above the grade of brigadier general. "(b) TERM OF OFFICE. — An officer appointed as Chief of the National Guard Bureau serves at the pleasure of the President for a term of four years. An officer may not hold that office after becoming 64 yeeirs of age. An officer may be reappointed as Chief of the National Guard Bureau. While holding that office, the Chief of the National Guard Bureau may not be removed from the reserve active-status list, or from gin active status, under any provision of law that otherwise would require such removal due to completion of a specified number of years of service or a specified number of years of service in grade. "(c) ADVISER ON NATIONAL GUARD MATTERS. —The Chief of the National Guard Bureau is the principal adviser to the Secretary of the Army and the Chief of Staff of the Army, and to the Secretary of the Air Force and the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, on matters
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