Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 71.djvu/413

This page needs to be proofread.
[71 Stat. 377]
PUBLIC LAW 000—MMMM. DD, 1957
[71 Stat. 377]

71 S T A T. ]

PUBLIC LAW 85-155-AUG. 21, 1957

" (b) To be eligible for appointment in the Army Nurse Corps under this section, a woman must be a graduate of a hospital or university school of nursing and a registered nurse. "(c) For the purpose of determining years of service creditable for promotion, a person appointed under subsection (a) shall be credited at the time of her appointment with all active commissioned service in the armed forces that she performed after becoming 21 years of age and before her appointment. However, not more than fourteen years of service may be so credited. A person appointed as a commissioned officer under subsection (a)(2) who has not performed at least three years of active commissioned service in the armed forces after December 7, 1941, shall, for the same purposes, be credited with that amount of service." (9) The analysis of chapter 335 is amended by striking out the following item: "3291. Commissioned oflBcers: Army Nurse Corps and Women's Medical Specialist Corps: original appointment; additional qualifications, grade." and inserting the following in place thereof: "3291. Commissioned oflBcers: Army Nurse Corps and Army Medical Specialist Corps: original appointment; additional qualifications, grade." (10) Section 3296 is amended — (A) by striking out the words "those of the Army Nurse Corps and the Women's Medical Specialist Corps," in the first sentence of subsection (a); and (B) by striking out the words ", except the Army Nurse Corps and the Women's Medical Specialist Corps" in subsection (b)(3). (11) Section 3297(a) is amended— (A) by striking the period at the end of the last sentence; and (B) by adding at the end thereof the following new phrase: ", and a selection board considering promotion-list officers of the Army Nurse Corps or the Army Medical Specialist Corps may include promotion-list officers who are in the same corps as the officers being considered by that board and whose regular or temporary grades are above major." (12) Section 3298(b) is amended— (A) by striking out the word "Vacancies" and inserting the word "vacancies" in place thereof; and (B) by inserting at the beginning of that sentence the words "Except for officers of the Army Nurse Corps and the Army Medical Specialist Corps,". (13) Section 3299 is amended— (A) by striking out the words "subsection (f) " in subsection (a) and inserting the words "subsections (f) and (g) " in place thereof; (B) by adding at the end of subsection (c): "No officer of the Army Nurse Corps or of the Army Medical Specialist Corps may be promoted under this subsection."; and (C) by redesignating subsection (g) as subsection (h) and inserting the following new subsection after subsection (f): " (g) Promotion-list officers of the Army Nurse Corps and Army Medical Specialist Corps may be promoted to the regular grade of lieutenant colonel in accordance with section 3304 of this title."

377

70A Stat. 180.

70A Stat. 184. Promotion l i s t s.

70A Stat. 185. Selection boards.

70A Stat. 186. Promotions.

70A Stat. 186.