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Volume 71

Public Law 85–149

To amend title 14, United States Code, so as to provide for retirement of certain former members of the Coast Guard Reserve.

Approved August 16, 1957

Statutory text

AN ACT

To amend title 14, United States Code, so as to provide for retirement of certain former members of the Coast Guard Reserve.

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

That section 755 of title 14, United States Code, is amended by adding thereto a new subsection (f) to read as follows:

“(f)

Any former member of the Coast Guard Reserve, other than a temporary member, honorably discharged or discharged under honorable conditions from the Coast Guard Reserve after February 18, 1941, and before January 1, 1949, who at the time of his discharge had completed at least thirty years of active service in the Armed Forces other than active duty for training, or who had completed at least twenty years of active service other than active duty for training the last ten of which he served in the eleven-year period immediately preceding his discharge, shall upon his request be placed on the retired list of the Coast Guard Reserve and shall be entitled to receive the same retired pay, only after being placed on the retired list, that he would be entitled to receive had he been retired as a member of the Naval Reserve under the Naval Reserve Act of 1938

52 Stat. 1175.

34 USC 854 note.

instead of being discharged.”

Approved August 16, 1957.

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