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[CITE: 10USC3283]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                            Subtitle B--Army
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
              CHAPTER 335--APPOINTMENTS IN THE REGULAR ARMY
 
Sec. 3283. Commissioned officers: appointment without 
        specification of branch; transfer between branches
        
    (a) Appointments in commissioned grades in the Regular Army shall be 
made without specification of branch except in each of the special 
branches and as professors or director of admissions of the United 
States Military Academy.
    (b) Commissioned officers appointed in the Regular Army without 
specification of branch shall be assigned, and may be transferred and 
reassigned, by the Secretary of the Army to branches other than the 
special branches, according to their professional qualifications and the 
needs of the Army.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 181; Pub. L. 85-600, Sec. 1(4), Aug. 
6, 1958, 72 Stat. 522; Pub. L. 95-485, title VIII, Sec. 820(d)(1), Oct. 
20, 1978, 92 Stat. 1627; Pub. L. 95-551, Sec. 2, Oct. 30, 1978, 92 Stat. 
2069.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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3283(a)...............................  10:506(b) (2d sentence).             Au
g. 7, 1947, ch. 512, Sec.  502(b)
                                        10:506(c) (1st sentence).             (
2d sentence), (c) (less proviso),
3283(b)...............................  10:506(c) (less 1st sentence and      6
1 Stat. 884; June 12, 1948, ch.
                                         less proviso).                       4
49, Sec.  104(d)(1), 62 Stat.
                                                                              3
58.
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    Subsection (a) is substituted for 10:506(b) (2d sentence) and 506(c) 
(1st sentence). The words ``in each of the special branches'' are 
substituted for the enumeration of branches in 10:506(b) (2d sentence) 
and for the words ``each of the several corps of the Army Medical 
Service, as chaplains'', in 10:506(c).
    In subsection (b), the words ``other than the special branches and 
the Women's Army Corps'' are substituted for 10:506(c) (words between 3d 
and 4th parentheses). The word ``their'' is substituted for the words 
``of the officers concerned''. The words ``of the Army'' are substituted 
for the words ``of the branches, arms, and services''. The words ``from 
time to time'' and ``arms, and services'' are omitted as surplusage.


                               Amendments

    1978--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 95-551 substituted ``director of 
admissions'' for ``registrar''.
    Pub. L. 95-485 struck out ``, in the Women's Army Corps,'' after 
``special branches''.
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 95-485 struck out ``and the Women's Army 
Corps'' after ``special branches''.
    1958--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 85-600 inserted reference to registrar of 
the Military Academy.
