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[CITE: 10USC8581]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                          Subtitle D--Air Force
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
                      CHAPTER 845--RANK AND COMMAND
 
Sec. 8581. Command: chaplains

    An officer designated as a chaplain has rank without command.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 531.)

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   Source (Statutes at Large)
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8581..................................  10:235.                              R.
S. 1122.
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    The words ``and shall be on the same footing with other officers of 
the Army, as to tenure of office, retirement, and pensions'' are omitted 
as obsolete, since there is no distinction between the status of a 
chaplain as an officer and the status of other officers of the Air 
Force.
