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[72 Stat. 1440]
PUBLIC LAW 85-000—MMMM. DD, 1958
[72 Stat. 1440]

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PUBLIC LAW 85-861-SEPT. 2, 1958

[72 S T A T.

" (b) I f a person covered by subsection (a) is separated from service as a cadet or midshipman, or from service as a midshipman in the Naval Reserve, for any reason other than his appointment as a commissioned officer of a regular or reserve component of an armed force or because of a physical disability, he resumes his enlisted status and shall complete the period of service for which he was enlisted or for which he has an obligation, unless he is sooner discharged. I n computing the unexpired part of an enlistment or period of obligated service for the purposes of this subsection, all service as a cadet or midshipman is counted as service under that enlistment or period of obligated service." (B) by striking out the following item from the analysis: "013. Reserve components: promotions."; and (C) by adding the following new item at the end of the analysis: "516. Effect upon enlisted status of acceptance of appointment as cadet or midshipman." 10 USC 591. (10) Chapter 35 is amended— (A) by amending section 591(c) by inserting the following new sentence after the first sentence thereof: "Women who are otherwise qualified may be appointed as Reserves of the armed forces with a view to serving as nurses or medical specialist? in the Army National Guard of the United States or the Air National Guard of the United States."; and (B) by inserting the following new section after section 591: "§ 592. Commissioned officer g r a d e s "Except for commissioned warrant officers, the reserve commissioned officer grades in each armed force are those authorized for regular commissioned officers of that armed force."; and 10 USC 593. (C) by striking out the period at the end of section 593(a) and inserting the following words in place thereof: ", except as 10 USC 3352. provided in section 3352 of this title." (11) The analysis of chapter 35 is amended ^ (A) by inserting the following new item: "592. Commissioned oflScer grades.";and (B) by striking out the following item: "596. Officers: promotion." 10 USC 651. (12) Section 651(a) is amended to read as follows: " (a) Each male person who after August 9, 1955, becomes a member of an armed force before his twenty-sixth birthday, other than a perse use 1013. son enlisted under section 1013 of title 50 or deferred under the next 50 USC app. to the last sentence of section 456(d)(1) of title 50, appendix, shall 456. serve in the armed forces for a total of six years, unless he is sooner discharged because of personal hardship under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense or, if he is a member of the Coast Guard while it is not operating as a service in the Navy, by the Secretary of the Treasury. Any part of such service that is not active duty or is active duty for training shall be performed in a reserve component." 10 USC 672. (13) Section 672(a) is amended to read as follows: " (a) I n time of war or of national emergency declared by Congress, or when otherwise authorized by law, an authority designated by the Secretary concerned may, without the consent of the persons affected, order any unit, and any member not assigned to a unit organized to serve as a unit, of a reserve component under the jurisdiction of that