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Page 24 - President may, under such regulations, including such physical examination as he may prescribe, order into the active military service of the United States, to serve therein for the period of the war or emergency, unless sooner relieved, any or all units and the members thereof of the National Guard of the United States.
Page 25 - When officers of the National Guard or of the Reserve forces of any of the services mentioned in the title of this Act...
Page 39 - It shall be unlawful for any person not an officer or enlisted man of the United States Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, to wear the duly prescribed uniform of the United States Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, or any distinctive part of such uniform, or a uniform any part of which is similar to a distinctive part of the duly prescribed uniform...
Page 22 - company' shall be understood as including a troop or battery; and "(d) The word 'battalion' shall be understood as including a squadron. "Art. 2. Persons subject to military law. The following persons are subject to these articles and shall be understood as included in the term 'any person subject to military law...
Page 22 - All retainers to the camp and all persons accompanying or serving with the armies of the United States without the territorial jurisdiction of the United States, and in time of war all such retainers and persons accompanying or serving with the armies of the United States in the field...
Page 30 - To each enlisted man not furnished quarters or rations in kind there shall be granted, under such regulations as the President may prescribe, an allowance for quarters and subsistence, the value of which shall depend on the conditions under which the duty of the man is being performed, and shall not exceed $4 per day.
Page 34 - That all officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men of the Army of the United States, other than the officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army, If called or ordered Into the active military service by the Federal Government for extended military service In excess of thirty days...
Page 38 - To the extent provided for from time to time by appropriations for this specific purpose, the President may order reserve officers to active duty at any time and for any period ; but except, in time of a national emergency expressly declared by Congress, no reserve officer shall be employed on active duty for more than fifteen days in any calendar year without his own consent.
Page 29 - Service and enlisted men of the Army and Marine Corps, shall receive, as a permanent addition to their pay, an increase of 5 per centum of their base pay for each four years...
Page 14 - The CHAIRMAN. Are there any other questions? (No response.) The CHAIRMAN. Thank you very much, Colonel, for coming up.

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