PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 873-JULY 1, 1944 42 Stat. 14S8 . 5U. .0.i661; SupP.in, 661 d as. Appointment. Activ-ervice credit for promotion. Aeignmeats. Designation. regard to the civil-service laws and compensated without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended. Commissioned officers of the Reserve Corps shall be appointed by the President and com- missioned officers of the Regular Corps shall be appointed by him by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Commissioned officers of the Reserve Corps shall at all times be subject to call to active duty by the Surgeon General, including active duty for the purpose of training and active duty for the purpose of determining their fitness for appointment in the Regular Corps. All active service in the Reserve Corps, as well as service in the Regular Corps, shall be credited for the purpose of promotion in the Regular Corps. SURGEON GENERAL SEC. 204. The Surgeon General shall be appointed from the Regu- lar Corps for a four-year term by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Upon the expiration of such term the Surgeon General, unless reappointed, shall revert to the grade and number in the Regular Corps that he would have occupied had he not served as Surgeon General. DEPUTP SURGEON GENERAL AND ASSISTANT SURGEONS GENERAL SEC. 205. (a) The Surgeon General shall assign one commissioned officer from the Regular Corps to administer the Office of the Surgeon General, to act as Surgeon General during the absence or disability of the Surgeon General or in the event of a vacancy in that office, and to perform such other duties as the Surgeon General may prescribe, and while so assigned he shall have the title of Deputy Surgeon General. (b) The Surgeon General shall assign six commissioned officers from the Regular Corps to be, respectively, the Director of the National Institute of Health, the Chief of the Bureau of State Serv- ices, the Chief of the Bureau of Medical Services, the Chief Medical Officer of the United States Coast Guard, the Chief Dental Officer of the Service, and the Chief Sanitary Engineering Officer of the Service, and while so serving they shall each have the title of Assist- ant Surgeon General. (c) The Surgeon General shall designate the Assistant Surgeon General who shall serve as Surgeon General in case of absence or disability, or vacancy in the offices, of both the Surgeon General and the Deputy Surgeon General. GRADES, RANKS, AND TITLES OF THE COMMISSIONED CORPS Surgeonenerl. SEc. 206. (a) The Surgeon General, during the period of his appointment as such, shall be of the same grae, with the same pay Deputyal rgdo and allowances, as the Surgeon General of the Army; and the Deputy surgonsoenera. Surgeon General and Assistant Surgeons General, while assigned as such, shall have the grade corresponding with the grade of Brigadier ioned of- General, with the same pay and allowances. The grades of commis- sioned officers of the Service shall correspond with grades of officers of the Army as follows: 1 Officers of the director grade-colonel; 2 Officers of the senior grade-lieutenant colonel; Officers of the full grade--major; Officers of the senior assistant grade-captain; 5) Officers of the assistant grade-first lieutenant; and 6) Officers of the junior assistant grade-second lieutenant [58 STAT.
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