Allowances for Certain Reserve Officers: Hearing Before the Committee on Military Affairs, United States Senate, Seventy-sixth Congress, First Session, on S. 507, to Provide Allowances for Inactive Status Training and for Uniforms and Equipment for Certain Officers of the Officers' Reserve Corps; and S. 508, to Amend the National Defense Act of June 30, 1916, as Amended, with Respect to the Pay and Allowances of Certain Reserve Officers. April 14, 1939

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Page 5 - In computing the increase of pay for each period of three years' service, such officers shall be credited with full time for all periods during which they have held commissions as officers of any of the services mentioned in the title of this Act, or in the Organized Militia prior to July 1, 1916, or in the National Guard, or in the Naval Militia, or in the National Naval Volunteers, or in the Naval Reserve force...
Page 2 - 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 5 - A reserve officer shall not be entitled to pay and allowances except when on active duty. When on active duty he shall receive the same pay and allowances as an officer of the Regular Army of the same grade and length of active service, and mileage from his home to his first station and from his last station to his home, but shall not be entitled to retirement or retired pay.
Page 6 - ... officer of the Naval Reserve shall be paid a sum not to exceed $100 as reimbursement for the purchase of the required uniforms...
Page 5 - That when officers of the National Guard or of the reserve forces of any of the services mentioned in the title of this act are authorized by law to receive Federal pay, those serving in grades corresponding to those of colonel, lieutenant colonel, major, captain, first lieutenant, and second lieutenant of the Army shall receive the pay of the sixth, fifth, fourth, third, second, and first periods, respectively.
Page 4 - Reserve other than an aviation cadet shall be paid a sum not to exceed $100 as reimbursement for the purchase of the required uniforms, and thereafter he shall be paid an additional sum of $50 for the same purpose upon the completion of each period of not less than 4 years in the Naval Reserve: Provided, That this latter amount of $50 shall not become due any officer until he has completed not less than 150 drills or periods of other equivalent instruction or duty or appropriate duties and 56 days'...
Page 11 - Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used except that, so far as practicable, all contracts shall be awarded on a formally advertised competitive bid basis to the lowest responsible bidder.
Page 7 - S. 2748, was submitted to the Bureau of the Budget which advised that there would be no objection to its submission to the committee.
Page 26 - Center; and group 5, from reserve officers and from officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men of the National Guard, members of the Enlisted Reserve Corps, and graduates of technical institutions approved by the Secretary of War...
Page 4 - Reserves will be necessary to administer any inactive status training allowances. For the above reasons the War Department is strongly opposed to any provisions for an inactive-status training allowance. The War Department would not oppose a uniform allowance if such allowance should be granted to Reserve officers upon completion of each of their first three periods of active duty training of 3 months or less, in separate fiscal years, provided such allowance is in accord with the program of the...

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