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[CITE: 10USC5986]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle C--Navy and Marine Corps
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
              CHAPTER 553--SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS AND DETAILS
 
Sec. 5986. Technical institutions: detail of naval officers to 
        promote knowledge of naval engineering and naval architecture
        
    (a) To promote a knowledge of naval engineering and naval 
architecture, the President, upon the application of any established 
scientific school or college in the United States, the Territories, 
Commonwealths, or possessions, may detail a qualified officer of the 
Navy as a professor in that school or college. The number of officers 
detailed under this section may not exceed 25 at any one time.
    (b) The President may prescribe regulations for detailing such 
officers and may recall them when the public interest requires.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 374.)

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5986..................................  34 U.S.C. 1126.                      Fe
b. 26, 1879, ch. 105, 20 Stat.
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    In subsection (a) the words ``To promote'' are substituted for the 
words ``For the purposes of promoting'' for brevity and the words 
``among the young men of the United States'' are omitted as surplusage. 
The words ``naval engineering'' are substituted for the words ``steam 
engineering'' and the words ``naval architecture'' are substituted for 
the words ``iron-ship building'' to conform to current terminology and 
to express more clearly the intent of the statute. The words ``the 
Territories, Commonwealths, or possessions'' are inserted, since the 
words ``United States'' in the source statute are considered to have 
included all areas under the United States flag.
    Section 1 of the Act of March 3, 1899, ch. 413, 30 Stat. 1004, 
transferred officers of the Engineer Corps of the Navy to the line of 
the Navy; therefore, in subsection (a) the words ``qualified officer'' 
are substituted for the words ``engineer officer'' to preserve the 
meaning of the section and to include any officer possessing adequate 
background and training in engineering duties.
    In subsection (b) the word ``regulations'' is substituted for the 
word ``rules'', and the words ``public interest'' are substituted for 
the words ``public service'' to conform to current terminology.
