Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 111 Part 2.djvu/641

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PUBLIC LAW 105-85—NOV. 18, 1997 111 STAT. 1721 reserve component of the Army and Air Force shall be specifically set forth.". Subtitle C—Authorization of Appropriations SEC. 421. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR MILITARY PERSONNEL. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Defense for military personnel for fiscal year 1998 a total of $69,470,505,000. The authorization in the preceding sentence supersedes any other authorization of appropriations (definite or indefinite) for such purpose for fiscal year 1998. TITLE V—MILITARY PERSONNEL POLICY Subtitle A—Officer Personnel Policy Sec. 501. Limitation on number of general and flag officers who may serve in positions outside their own service. Sec. 502. Exclusion of certain retired officers from limitation on period of recall to active duty. Sec. 503. Clarification of officers eligible for consideration by promotion boards. Sec. 504. Authority to defer mandatory retirement for age of officers serving as chaplains. Sec. 505. Increase in number of officers allowed to be frocked to grades of colonel and Navy captain. Sec. 506. Increased years of commissioned service for mandatory retirement of regular generals and admirals in grades above major general and rear admi ral. Sec. 507. Uniform policy for requirement of exemplary conduct by commanding officers and others in authority. Sec. 508. Report on the command selection process for District Engineers of the i^my Corps of Engineers. Subtitle B—Reserve Component Matters Sec. 511. Individual Ready Reserve activation authority. Sec. 512, Termination of Mobilization Income Insurance Program. Sec. 513. Correction of inequities in medical and dental care and death and disability benefits for reserve members who incur or aggravate an illness in the line of duty. Sec. 514. Authority to permit non-unit assigned officers to be considered by vacancy promotion board to general officer grades. Sec. 515. Prohibition on use of Air Force Reserve AGR personnel for Air Force base security functions. Sec. 516. Involuntary separation of reserve officers in an inactive status. Sec. 517. Federal status of service by National Guard members as honor guards at funerals of veterans. Subtitle C—Military Technicians Sec. 521. Authority to retain on the reserve active-status list until age 60 military technicians in the grade of brigadier general. Sec. 522. Military technicians (dual status). Sec. 523. Non-dual status military technicians. Sec. 524. Report on feasibility and desirability of conversion of AGR personnel to military technicians (dual status). Subtitle D—Measures To Improve Recruit Quality and Reduce Recruit Attrition Sec. 531. Reform of military recruiting systems. Sec. 532. Improvements in medical prescreening of applicants for military service. Sec. 533. Improvements in physical fitness of recruits. 39-194O-97-21:QL3Part2