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408 as an officer designated for limited duty may revert to the grade and status he would hold if he had not been so appointed but had instead been appointed a warrant officer, W - 1. (e) I n any computation to determine the grade and status to which an officer may revert under subsection (d), all active service as an officer designated for limited duty or as a temporary or reserve officer is included. § 6385. Officers appointed under sections 5231, 5232, and 5787 of this title: grade for purpose of preceding sections For the purpose of the preceding sections of this chapter, an officer serving in a grade in which he was appointed under section 5231, 5232, or 5787 of this title is considered as serving in the grade he would hold if he had not been so appointed. § 6386. Suspension: preceding sections (a) The President may suspend any provision of the preceding sections of this chapter relating to officers serving in the grades of lieutenant and lieutenant (junior grade) in the Navy, other than women officers appointed under section 5590 of this title, or relating to male officers serving in the grades of captain and first lieutenant in the Marine Corps during any period when— (1) the numDer of male officers serving on active duty in the grade of ensign and above in the line of the Navy exceeds the number of male officers on the active list in the line of the Navy; and (2) he determines that the needs of the service so require. (b) Officers in the following categories are not counted as officers serving on active duty for the purpose of clause (1) of subsection (a): (1) Ketired officers. (2) Officers of the Naval Reserve assigned to active duty for training. (3) Officers of the Naval Reserve ordered to active duty in connection with organizing, administering, recruiting, instructing, training, or drilling the Naval Reserve. (4) Officers of the Naval Reserve ordered to temporary active duty to prosecute special work. (c) During a war or national emergency, the President may suspend any provision of the preceding sections of this chapter. Such a suspension may not continue beyond June 30 of the fiscal year following that in which the war or national emergency ends. § 6387. Regular Navy, male line officers; Regular Marine Corps, male officers: computation of total commissioned service (a) For the purpose of the preceding sections of this chapter, the total commissioned service of a male officer on the active list in the line of the Navy or of a male officer on the active list of the Marine Corps who has served continuously on the active list since his appointment in the grade of ensign or second lieutenant, either upon graduation from the Naval Academy or under section 6904, 6906, or 6909