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288 of the Senate, for a term of four years, from officers on the active list in the line of the Navy not below the grade of commander. (b) The Deputy Chief of the Bureau of Naval Personnel shall be known as the Deputy Chief of Naval Personnel. An officer on the active list in the line of the Navy not below the grade of commander may be detailed as Deputy Chief of Naval Personnel. §5142. Bureau of Naval Personnel: Chief of Chaplains There is a Chief of Chaplains in the Bureau of Naval Personnel, detailed by the Chief of Naval Personnel from officers on the active list of the Navy in the Chaplains Corps not below the grade of rear admiral. The Chief of Chaplains, while so serving, is entitled to the basic pay and allowances of a rear admiral in the upper h a l l of that grade. § 5143. Bureau of Naval Personnel: Assistant Chief for Women (a) A woman officer on the active list of the Navy, appointed under section 5590 of this title, serving in a grade not below lieutenant commander may be detailed as an assistant to the Chief of Naval Personnel. While so serving, she has the rank of captain in the Navy and is entitled to the pay and allowances of an officer serving in that rank. Her permanent status as a commissioned officer is not disturbed by her detail under this section. (b) An officer detailed as an assistant to the Chief of Naval Personnel under subsection (a), who becomes 50 years of age while serving as such assistant, may be retired by the President on the first day of the month following that in which she stops serving as such assistant. (c) Each officer detailed as an assistant to the Chief of Naval Personnel under subsection (a) who, while serving a.« such assistant, becomes 55 years of age or completes 30 years of active commissionetl service in the Navy shall be retired by the President on the first day of the month following that in which she attains that age or conipletes that service, whichever is earlier. (d) An officer detailed as an assistant to the Chief of Naval Personnel under subsection (a) who has served at least two and onehalf years as such assistant, and who is retired for any reason, either while so serving or after completion of that service while serving in a lower grade or rank, may, in the discretion of the President, be retired with the grade of captain and with retired pay based on that grade. (e) Unless given a higher grade under subsection (d) or another provision of law, an officer retired under this section shall be retired m the permanent grade held by her at the time of retirement. (f) Each officer who is retired under this section is entitled to retired pay at the rate of 21^ percent of the basic pay to which she would be entitled if serving on active duty in the grade in which retired multiplied by the number of years of service creditable for basic pay, but the retired pay may not be more than 75 percent or less than 50 percent of the basic pay upon which the computation of retired pay is based. I n determining the number of years to bo used as a multiplier under this subsection, a part of a year that is six months or more is counted as a whole year and a part of a year that is less than six months is disregarded.
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