Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 113 Part 1.djvu/618

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113 STAT. 594 PUBLIC LAW 106-65—OCT. 5, 1999 reserve active-status lists under section 14506 of title 10, United States Code, on or after the date of the enactment of this Act. SEC. 515. COMPUTATION OF YEARS OF SERVICE EXCLUSION. The text of section 14706 of title 10, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: "(a) For the purpose of this chapter and chapter 1407 of this title, a Reserve officer's years of service include all service of the officer as a commissioned officer of a uniformed service other than the following: "(1) Service as a warrant officer. "(2) Constructive service. "(3) Service after appointment as a commissioned officer of a reserve component while in a program of advanced education to obtain the first professional degree required for appointment, designation, or assignment to a professional specisdty, but only if that service occurs before the officer commences initial service on active duty or initial service in the Ready Reserve in the specialty that results from such a degree. "(b) The exclusion under subsection (a)(3) does not apply to service performed by an officer who previously served on active duty or participated as a member of the Ready Reserve in other than a student status for the period of service preceding the member's service in a student status. "(c) For purposes of subsection (a)(3), an officer shall be considered to be in a professional specialty if the officer is appointed or assigned to the Medical Corps, the Dental Corps, the Veterinary Corps, the Medical Service Corps, the Nurse Corps, or the Army Medical Specialists Corps or is designated as a chaplain or judge advocate.". SEC. 516. RETENTION OF RESERVE COMPONENT CHAPLAINS UNTIL AGE 67. Section 14703(b) of title 10, United States Code, is amended by striking "(or, in the case of a reserve officer of the Army in the Chaplains or a reserve officer of the Air Force designated as a chaplain, 60 years of age)". SEC. 517. EXPANSION AND CODIFICATION OF AUTHORITY FOR SPACE- REQUIRED TRAVEL ON MILITARY AIRCRAFT FOR RESERVES PERFORMING INACTIVE-DUTY TRAINING OUT- SIDE THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES. (a) AUTHORITY. — (1) Chapter 1805 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new section:

    • § 18505. Reserves traveling to inactive-duty training

OCONUS: authority for space-required travel "(a) In the case of a member of a reserve component whose place of inactive-duty training is outside the contiguous States (including a place other than the place of the member's unit training assembly if the member is performing the inactive-duty training in another location), the member may travel in a space-required status on aircraft of the armed forces between the member's home and the place of such training if there is no transportation between those locations by means of road or railroad (or a combination of road and railroad). "(b) A member traveling in a space-required status on any such aircraft under subsection (a) is not authorized to receive travel.