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PUBLIC LAWS-CI. 38-APR. 16, 1947
[61 STAT.
Credit for active
SEC. 110. Except for the purpose of determining a person's grade,
mtar
serice
rank, and right to promotion in the Regular Army (see section 105
(b) hereof) in computing years of active Federal military service for
all purposes of any person, there shall be credited active military serv-
ice in the Army Nurse Corps and in the Navy Nurse Corps, active
military service rendered pursuant to an appointment under the
o0u. s. c .g§ s8 provisions of the Act of December 22, 1942 (56 Stat. 1072), and active
note, 164 and note;
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37udrt
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a13 note.
military service rendered pursuant to an appointment under the
5 U. S2. c. app. Act of June 23, 1944 (58 Stat. 324).
§ 1591-598. oco
SEC. 111 . The Secretary of War, under the circumstances and in
mission.
accordance with regulations prescribed by the President, may termi-
nate the commission of any officer commissioned in any of the corps
established by this title.
Addition to num-
SEC. 112. Personnel appointed in the Regular Army under the
bers of commissioned
officers of Regular provisions of this Act shall be in addition to the numbers of other
Army.
commissioned officers of the Regular Army now or hereafter prescribed
by law.
Appointment re-
SEC. 113. (a) Effective on the date of enactment of this Act, no
stritions.
further appointment shall be made in the Army Nurse Corps created
10° 782s C. §§ 161-by Chapter V of the Act of July 9, 1918 (40 Stat. 879), as amended,
and no further appointment shall be made pursuant to the Act of
Supra.
December 22, 1942 (56 Stat. 1073), or pursuant to the Act of June
50 U. S. C. app. 22, 1944 (58 Stat. 324). The acceptance of any Regular Army appoint-
ment under this Act shall operate to vacate any other military or
civilian status in or with the Military Establishment theretofore
occupied by the appointee except an appointment pursuant to the
Act of June 22, 1944.
Termyinration of
(b) Effective six months following the date of enactment of this
Act, the Army Nurse Corps created by chapter V of the Act of July 9,
Supra.
1918 (40 Stat. 879), as amended, and all offices and appointments
Pay, leave, etc.
therein shall cease to exist: Provided,That this provision shall not
affect the rights, benefits, privileges, pay, allowances, gratuities, or
leave accrued to a person, her dependents, or beneficiaries by virtue
of any laws or regulations in effect prior to the enactment of this Act,
and where necessary to the full enjoyment of terminal leave, terminal-
leave pay, retirement and retired pay, pensions, travel allowance,
transportation of dependents and effects, and rights, benefits, privi-
leges and gratuities to which such person or her dependents have
become entitled, such corps, offices, and appointments shall continue
to exist but only for such purposes.
oTicers' Reserve
SEC. 114. Effective the date of enactment of this Act, there shall be
Army Nurse Corps established in the Officers' Reserve Corps of the Army of the United
Section; WomiI
e
ns
Medical Specialist States an Army Nurse Corps Section and a Women's Medical Special-
Corps Section.
ist Corps Section.
Applicability of
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poie
laws to commissioned
SEC. 115. Except as otherwise specifically provided, all laws and
officers, etc.
regulations now or hereafter applicable to commissioned officers and
former commissioned officers of the Officers' Reserve Corps, and to
their dependents and beneficiaries, shall, in like cases, be applicable
respectively to commissioned officers and former commissioned officers
of the Army Nurse Corps Section and the Women's Medical Specialist
Corps Section of the Officers' Reserve Corps, and to their dependents
and beneficiaries.
Appointments.
SEC. 116. Appointments in the Army Nurse Corps Section and the
Women's Medical Specialist Corps Section of the Officers' Reserve
Corps may be made in such grades and under such regulations as may
be prescribed by the Secretary of War, from female citizens of the
United States, who have attained the age of twenty-one years, and
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