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Volume 67

Public Law 83–244

To amend section 47c of the National Defense Act.

Approved August 8, 1953

Statutory text

AN ACT

To amend section 47c of the National Defense Act.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That section 47c of the National Defense Act, as amended (10 U. S. C. 383, 384, 385a, 386a, 387, 387a, 443), is further amended by changing the period at

41 Stat. 778.

10 USC 443.

the end thereof to a semicolon and adding the following: “Provided further, That, to the extent provided in regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Army, military training in the junior division, Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, or military training at an educational institution conducted under section 55c of the National Defense Act as amended (10 U. S, C, 1180, 1181), when either is received

41 Stat. 780.

under the direction of an officer of the Army on active duty detailed to such institution us a professor of military science and tactics, or under the direction of a retired or Reserve officer of the Army not on active duty employed by such institution as an instructor of military science and tactics with the approval of the Secretary of the Army, may be credited toward completion of the two academic years of service in the senior division, Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, required for admission to the advanced course of that division and for commutation of subsistence, as provided for herein, if the military training received is substantially equivalent to that for which credit is to be allowed,”

Sec. 2.

The Act of September 8, 1916 (ch. 478, 39 Stat. 853; 10

Repeal.

U. S. C. 388), is hereby repealed.

Approved August 8, 1953.

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