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[CITE: 10USC5503]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle C--Navy and Marine Corps
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
                 CHAPTER 535--GRADE AND RANK OF OFFICERS
 
Sec. 5503. Navy and Marine Corps: warrant officer grades

    The warrant officer grades in the Navy and the Marine Corps are:
        (1) Chief warrant officer, W-5.
        (2) Chief warrant officer, W-4.
        (3) Chief warrant officer, W-3.
        (4) Chief warrant officer, W-2.
        (5) Warrant officer, W-1.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 314; Pub. L. 102-190, div. A, title 
XI, Sec. 1131(9), Dec. 5, 1991, 105 Stat. 1506.)

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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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5503..................................  34 U.S.C. 135a(a) (less last         Ma
y 29, 1954, ch. 249, Sec.  3(a)
                                         sentence).                           (
less 3d and last sentence), 68
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tat. 157.
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    This section is included in subtitle C for completeness and clarity. 
In duplicates, in part, Secs. 555 and 597 of this title, which cover, 
respectively, the ``permanent regular warrant officer grades'' and the 
``permanent reserve warrant officer grades'' in the armed forces. The 
concept that regular grades differ from reserve grades and that a grade 
held under a permanent appointment differs from the grade of the same 
name held under a temporary appointment is foreign to the naval service. 
In the Navy and the Marine Corps, all officers serving, for example, in 
the grade of chief warrant officer, W-4, are considered to be serving in 
the same grade regardless of whether they are Regulars or Reserves and 
regardless of whether they are temporary or permanent officers holding 
temporary or permanent appointments in that grade. This section, 
therefore, lists the four warrant officer grades as applicable to all 
warrant officers of the naval service.
    Reference to the pay grades corresponding to the military grades is 
omitted as unnecessary for the purpose of this section.


                               Amendments

    1991--Pub. L. 102-190 added par. (1) and redesignated former pars. 
(1) to (4) as (2) to (5), respectively.


                    Effective Date of 1991 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 102-190 effective Feb. 1, 1992, see section 
1132 of Pub. L. 102-190, set out as a note under section 521 of this 
title.
