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PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 157-MAR. 25 , 1948 56 Stat. 367. 37 U.. C. §114; Supp. I, §114 note. Pay and allowances. 39 Stat. 166 . 10U.S.C.§2et Weg. Ante, p. 87; post, pp. 89-91,477,643 . 52 Stat. 1175. 34U. S. .C . 853- 857g; Supp. I, 853a et seq. Post, p. 368 . 39 Stat. 206, 207. 32 U.S. C. §§ 63-65, 144-146 . Additional training without pay. Computation of pay. Aerial flights, etc. Rules and reglla- tions. SEC. 3. That section 14 of the Pay Readjustment Act of 1942, as amended, be amended to read as follows: "SEO. 14. RESERVE AND NATIONAL GUARD PERSONNEL.- (a) Officers, warrant officers, and enlisted personnel of the reserve components of any of the services mentioned in the title of this Act, when on active duty in the service of the United States, shall be entitled to receive the same pay and allowances as are authorized for persons of corre- sponding grade and length of service in the Regular Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, or Public Health Service. "(b) Officers, warrant officers, and enlisted personnel of the reserve components of any of the services mentioned in the title of this Act, when participating in full-time training or other full-time duty (pro- vided for or authorized in the National Defense Act, as amended, or in the Naval Reserve Act of 1938, as amended, or in other pro- visions of law, including participation in exercises or performance of the duties provided for by sections 94, 97, and 99 of the National Defense Act, as amended) shall receive the same pay and allowances as are authorized for persons of corresponding grade and length of service in the Regular Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, or Public Health Service: Provided, That they may be given additional training or other duty as provided for by law, without pay, as may be authorized by the head of the Department concerned, with their consent, and when such authorized training or other duty without pay is performed they may in the discretion of the head of the Depart- ment concerned, be furnished with transportation to and from such duty, with subsistence en route, and, during the performance of such duty, be furnished with subsistence and quarters in kind or commuta- tion thereof at a rate to be fixed from time to time by the head of the Department concerned. "(c) Under such regulations as the head of the Department con- cerned may prescribe, and to the extent provided for by law and by appropriations, officers, warrant officers, and enlisted personnel of the National Guard of the United States, Organized Reserve Corps, Naval Reserve, and Marine Corps Reserve, shall receive compensation at the rate of one-thirtieth of the monthly base pay including longevity pay, authorized for such persons when on active duty in the armed forces of the United States, for each regular period of instruction or period of appropriate duty, at which they shall have been engaged for not less than two hours, including those performed on Sundays and holidays, or for the performance of such other equivalent training, instruction, or duty or appropriate duties as may be prescribed by the head of the Department concerned: Provided, That personnel required to perform aerial flights, parachute jumping, glider flights, or submarine duty shall receive the increases in pay provided for by law for personnel in such status: Provided further, That for each of the several classes of organizations prescribed for the National Guard of the United States, the Organized Reserve Corps, Naval Reserve, and Marine Corps Reserve, the rules applicable to each of which services and classes within services may differ, the head of the Department concerned: (1) Shall prescribe minimum standards which must be met before an assembly for drill or other equivalent period of training, instruction, or duty or appropriate duties may be credited for pay purposes, which minimum standards may require the presence for duty of officers and enlisted personnel equal to or in excess of a minimum number or percentage of unit strength for a specified period of time with participation in a prescribed character of training; (2) shall prescribe the maximum number of assemblies, or periods of other equivalent training, instruction, or duty or appropriate duties, which may be counted for pay purposes in each fiscal year; (3) shall prescribe the maximum number of assemblies, or periods of other 88 [62 STAT.