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PUBLIC LAW 4 7 6 - J U L Y 9, 1952
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ized for women in the Regular component of the appropriate Armed Force of the United States. Women may be appointed or enlisted in the Coast Guard Reserve as provided in section 762, title 14, United 63 Stat. 554. States Code. Any female former officer or enlisted woman of an Armed Force of the United States may, if otherwise qualified, be appointed or enlisted as a Reserve in that Armed Force of the United States in the highest rank, grade, or rating satisfactorily held by her on active dut3^ Restriction. (c) Except in the case of Adjutants General and Assistant Adjutants General of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, a person who has not held an appointment as a commissioned officer in any of the Armed Forces of the United States, or any component thereof, may not be appointed as a commissioned officer in a grade higher than major ol* lieutenant commander in any of the Armed Forces of the United States except upon the recommendation of a board of officers convened by the appropriate Secretary. Officer grades. SEC. 218. The President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall make all appointments of Reserves in general or flag officer grades. SEC. 219. The President shall make all appointments of Reserves in commissioned grades below general or flag officer grades. SEC. 220. The appropriate Secretary shall make all appointments of Reserves in warrant officer grades. SEC. 221. All Reserve commissioned officers shall hold appointment during the pleasure of the President. SEC. 222. (a) To become an officer of a reserve component an individual shall be appointed as a Reserve commissioned officer or Reserve warrant officer of an Armed Force of the United States in a grade corresponding to one of the grades of the Regular component of that Armed Force of the United States and subscribe to the oath prescribed by section 1757 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (5 U.S.C. 16): Provided, That no person shall become a member of the National Guard of the United States or Air National Guard of the United States in a commissioned officer or warrant officer grade, hereunder, unless he first be appointed to and federally recognized in the same commissioned or warrant officer grade in the National Guard or Air National Guard in the appropriate State, Territory, or the District of Columbia and 39 subscribe to the oath provided in section 73 of the National Defense use Stat. 201. 32 112. Act, as amended. (b) Each person appointed in a commissioned officer grade as a Reserve in an Armed Force of the United States shall be commissioned as a Reserve officer in the Army of the United States, the United States Navy, the United States Marine Corps, the United States Air Force, or the United States Coast Guard, as appropriate. SEC. 223. Reserve warrant officers shall hold appointment during the pleasure of the appropriate Secretary. Indefinite term SEC. 224. After the date of enactment of this Act, all appointments appointment. of of Reserve officers shall be for an indefinite term. All officers holding appointments on the date of enactment in the National Guard of the United States, or the Officers' Reserve Corps, or the Naval Reserve, or the Marine Corps Reserve,* or the Air National Guard of the United States, or the Air Force Reserve, or the Coast Guard Reserve shall be considered to hold such appointments as Reserve officers, as the case may be, in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, or Coast Guard, as appropriate, and in the case of commissioned officers to hold commissions as provided in section 222(b) of this Act. Each such officer not holding an appointment for an indefinite term on the date of enactment of this Act shall be given an appointment for an indefinite term in lieu of his current appointment if such officer, after written
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