Volume 65
Private Law 82–368
To authorize the appointment of Joseph F. Carroll as a permanent colonel in the Regular Air Force.
Approved October 26, 1951
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the appointment of Joseph F. Carroll as a permanent colonel in the Regular Air Force.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, is authorized to appoint Joseph F. Carroll, AO948277, United States Air Force Reserve, to the permanent grade of colonel in the Regular Air Force. For the purposes of determining position on promotion list, permanent-grade seniority, and eligibility for promotion, Joseph F. Carroll shall be credited with an amount of service equal to the number of days, months, and years by which his age at the time of his appointment exceeds twenty-five years and shall be placed on the promotion list immediately below that officer appointed to the permanent grade of colonel on April 2, 1948, who is credited with the same or next greater amount of service.
The service credited to Joseph F. Carroll at the time of his appointment and his active commissioned service in the Regular Air Force subsequent to his appointment shall constitute his “years’ service”
within the meaning of that term as set out in subsection (b) of section 514 of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947 (61 Stat. 903; 10 U. S. C. 941b).
Approved October 26, 1951.