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[CITE: 10USC12206]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                     Subtitle E--Reserve Components
 
                      PART II--PERSONNEL GENERALLY
 
              CHAPTER 1205--APPOINTMENT OF RESERVE OFFICERS
 
Sec. 12206. Commissioned officers: appointment of former 
        commissioned officers
        
    Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, a person 
who is a former commissioned officer may, if otherwise qualified, be 
appointed as a reserve officer of the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine 
Corps. A person so appointed--
        (1) may be placed on the reserve active-status list of that 
    armed force in the grade equivalent to the permanent regular or 
    reserve grade, and in the same competitive category, in which the 
    person previously served satisfactorily on active duty or in an 
    active status; and
        (2) may be credited for the purpose of determining date of rank 
    under section 741(d) of this title with service in grade equal to 
    that held by that person when discharged or separated.

(Added Sec. 596a and renumbered Sec. 12206, Pub. L. 103-337, div. A, 
title XVI, Secs. 1633, 1662(c)(2), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2965, 2990.)


                               Amendments

    1994--Pub. L. 103-337, Sec. 1662(c)(2), renumbered section 596a of 
this title as this section.


                             Effective Date

    Section effective Oct. 1, 1996, see section 1691(b)(1) of Pub. L. 
103-337, set out as a note under section 10001 of this title.
