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194: §3352. Officers; Army Reserve: transfer from Army National Guard of United States (a) Under such regulations as the Secretary of the Army may prescribe, and with the consent of the governor or other appropriate authority of the State or Territory, Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone, or the District of Columbia, whichever is concerned, an officer of the Army National Guard of the United States may be transferred in grade to the Army Reserve. Upon transfer, he is eligible for promotion to the highest regular or reserve grade ever held by him in the Army, if his service has been honorable. (b) Unless discharged from his appointment as a Reserve, an officer of the Army National Guard of the United States whose Federal recognition as a member of the Army National Guard is withdrawn becomes a member of the Army Reserve. An officer who so becomes a member of the Army Reserve ceases to be a member of the Army National Guard of the United States. §3354. Commissioned officers; Army Reserve: appointment of warrant officers and enlisted members of Army National Guard of United States Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a warrant officer or enlisted member of the Army National Guard of the United States may without affecting that status or vacating his warrant or enlisted grade in the Army National Guard, be appointed as a reserve officer of the Army in the grade of first lieutenant or second lieutenant. §3355. Commissioned officers; Army Reserve: appointmentr R. O. T. C. graduates The President alone may appoint any graduate of the junior or senior division of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps as a reserve commissioned officer for service in the Army Reserve, if that graduate— (1) has satisfactorily completed the courses of military training prescribed for the senior division; (2) has satisfactorily completed the further training prescribed in section 4385 of this title; (3) has participated after graduation in the practical instruction prescribed by the Secretary of the Army; (4) is at least 21 years of age; and (5) agrees under written oath to serve the United States as a reserve officer for at least five years from the date of his appointment, unless he is sooner discharged. § 3357. Female commissioned officers; Army Reserve: for service in Army Nurse Corps or Women's Medical Specialist Corps To be eligible for an appointment as a reserve officer for service in the Army Reserve in the Army Nurse Corps or the "Women's Medical Specialist Corps, a person must be a woman at least 21 years of age.