PUBLIC LAW 96-513—DEC. 12, 1980
94 STAT. 2895
SERVICE CREDIT UPON ORIGINAL APPOINTMENT OF RESERVE COMMISSIONED OFFICERS
SEC. 328. Section 5600, relating to service credit upon original appointment to the Naval Reserve and Marine Corps Reserve, is amended to read as follows: "§ 5600. Naval Reserve and Marine Corps Reserve: service credit 10 USC 5600. upon original appointment "(a)(1) Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, for the purpose of determining the grade, seniority in grade, and eligibility for promotion of a person who is originally appointed as a commissioned officer in a permanent grade above chief warrant officer, W-4, in the Naval Reserve or Marine Corps Reserve, such person shall be credited at the time of such appointment with any service as a commissioned officer, other than a commissioned warrant officer, that he performed in an active status in any armed force before such appointment. "(2) The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe regulations to author- Regulations. ize the Secretary of the Navy to limit the amount of prior commissioned service with which a person receiving an original appointment may be credited under paragraph (1), or to deny any such credit, in the case of a person who at the time of such appointment is credited with constructive service under subsection (b). "(b)(1) Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of the Navy shall credit a person who is receiving an original appointment as a reserve commissioned officer in the Navy or Marine Corps and who has advanced education or training or special experience with constructive service for such education, training, or experience as follows:
- (A) One year for each year of advanced education beyond the
baccalaureate degree level, for persons appointed in officer categories requiring such advanced education or an advanced degree as a prerequisite for appointment as a commissioned officer. (Except as provided in clause (E), in determining the years of constructive service under this clause, the Secretary of the Navy shall grant credit for only the number of years normally required to complete the advanced education or receive the advanced degree.) "(B) Credit for any period of advanced education in a health profession (other than medicine and dentistry) beyond the baccalaureate degree level which exceeds the basic education criteria for appointment as an officer, if such advanced education will be directly used by the Navy or Marine Corps, as appropriate. "(C) Additional credit of (i) not more than one year for internship or equivalent graduate medical, dental, or other formal professional training required by the armed forces, and (ii) not more than one year for each additional year of such graduate-level training or experience creditable toward certification in a specialty required by the Navy or Marine Corps, as appropriate. '(D) Additional credit, in unusual cases, based on special experience in a particular field. '(E) Additional credit of one year for advanced education in a health profession if the number of years of baccalaureate education completed by 75 percent or more of the students entering advanced training in that health profession exceeds, by one or more, the minimum number of years of preprofessional educa-
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