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[CITE: 10USC8069]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                          Subtitle D--Air Force
 
                          PART I--ORGANIZATION
 
                       CHAPTER 807--THE AIR FORCE
 
Sec. 8069. Air Force nurses: Chief and assistant chief; 
        appointment; grade
        
    (a) Positions of Chief and Assistant Chief.--There are a Chief and 
assistant chief of the Air Force Nurse Corps.
    (b) Chief.--The Secretary of the Air Force shall appoint the Chief 
from the officers of the Regular Air Force designated as Air Force 
nurses whose regular grade is above lieutenant colonel and who are 
recommended by the Surgeon General. An appointee who holds a lower 
regular grade shall be appointed in the regular grade of brigadier 
general. The Chief serves during the pleasure of the Secretary.
    (c) Assistant Chief.--The Surgeon General shall appoint the 
assistant chief from the officers of the Regular Air Force designated as 
Air Force nurses whose regular grade is above lieutenant colonel.

(Added Pub. L. 104-201, div. A, title V, Sec. 502(b), Sept. 23, 1996, 
110 Stat. 2511; amended Pub. L. 105-261, div. A, title V, Sec. 505, Oct. 
17, 1998, 112 Stat. 2004.)


                               Amendments

    1998--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 105-261 struck out ``, but not for more 
than three years, and may not be reappointed to the same position'' 
after ``pleasure of the Secretary''.
