Volume 69
Public Law 84–153
To authorize voluntary extensions of enlistments in the Army, Navy, and Air Force for periods of less than one year.
Approved July 12, 1955
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize voluntary extensions of enlistments in the Army, Navy, and Air Force for periods of less than one year.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the fifth paragraph
Armed Forces.
Enlistments.
under the heading “Pay, Miscellaneous” of the Act of August 22, 1912 (ch. 335,37 Stat. 331), as amended, is amended by deleting the word “either” and substituting therefor the words “less than one year or for a period of”.
Sec. 2.
The term of enlistment of any enlisted man in the Army and the Air Force may, by his voluntary written agreement, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary concerned, be extended for a period of less than one year from the date of expiration of the then existing term of enlistment, and subsequent to said date such enlisted men as extend the term of enlistment as authorized in this section shall be entitled to and shall receive the same pay and allowances in all respects as though regularly discharged and reenlisted immediately upon expiration of their term of enlistment, and such extension shall not operate to deprive them upon discharge at the termination thereof of any right, privilege, or benefit to which they would be entitled at the expiration of the former term of enlistment.
Approved July 12, 1955.