Volume 72 · 480
Public Law 85–583
To amend title 10 of the United States Code to permit enlisted members of the Naval Reserve and Marine Corps Reserve to transfer to the Fleet Reserve and the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve on the same basis as members of the regular components.
Approved August 1, 1958
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend title 10 of the United States Code to permit enlisted members of the Naval Reserve and Marine Corps Reserve to transfer to the Fleet Reserve and the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve on the same basis as members of the regular components.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That title 10, United States Code, is amended as follows:
Section 6327 (e) is amended to read as follows:
“(e) A member who is eligible for retirement under this section, and who is also eligible for retirement under another provision or for transfer to the Fleet Reserve or the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve
under section 6330 of this title, is entitled to elect which of these benefits he is to receive.”
Section 6330 (a) is amended by striking out the words “Regular Navy and the Regular Marine Corps, respectively,” and inserting in place thereof the words “naval service”.
Section 6330 (b) is amended by inserting the words “or the Naval Reserve” after the words “Regular Navy” and by inserting the words “or the Marine Corps Reserve” after the words “Regular Marine Corps.”
Section 6331 (a) is amended to read as follows:
“(a) When he has completed 30 years of service, or when he is found
not physically qualified in an examination under section 6485 of this title, a member of the Fleet Reserve or the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve shall lie transferred—
“(1) to the retired list of the Regular Navy or the Regular Marine Corps, as appropriate, if he was a member of the Regular Navy or the Regular Marine Corps at the time of his transfer to the Fleet Reserve or the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve; or
“(2) to the appropriate Retired Reserve, if he was a member of the Naval Reserve or the Marine Corps Reserve at the time of his transfer to the Fleet Reserve or the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve.”
Section 6331 (b) is amended by striking out the words “of clause (2)”.
Section 6331 (c) is amended by inserting the words “or the Retired Reserve” after the words “retired list” in the second line and in the fourth line.
Section 6332 is amended by inserting the words “or the Retired Reserve” after the word “Navy” in clause (3) and after the words “Marine Corps” in clause (4).
Approved August 1, 1958.