Amending the War Orphans Educational Assistance Act, 86-2, 19601960 - 34 pages |
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... wartime military service to civilian pursuits but in enacting this unusual supplementary form of assistance to de- pendents the Congress closely limited it to the child of a veteran whose death resulted from a disability incurred during ...
... wartime military service to civilian pursuits but in enacting this unusual supplementary form of assistance to de- pendents the Congress closely limited it to the child of a veteran whose death resulted from a disability incurred during ...
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... wartime rates of disability compensation if the dis- ability resulted from armed conflict or while engaged in extrahazardous service . In our prior reports we seriously questioned the soundness of an extension of this special type of ...
... wartime rates of disability compensation if the dis- ability resulted from armed conflict or while engaged in extrahazardous service . In our prior reports we seriously questioned the soundness of an extension of this special type of ...
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... wartime , peacetime draft , or peacetime per se , especially when service - connected disabilities are involved . The cost of such extensions , of course , would be great . Thus H.R. 4306 could well be a forerunner of a large ...
... wartime , peacetime draft , or peacetime per se , especially when service - connected disabilities are involved . The cost of such extensions , of course , would be great . Thus H.R. 4306 could well be a forerunner of a large ...
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... wartime situation . The theory of the original 1956 law was that the loss of the parent due to war service worked a special hardship on the child in attempting to acquire extended education , which frequently would have been financed by ...
... wartime situation . The theory of the original 1956 law was that the loss of the parent due to war service worked a special hardship on the child in attempting to acquire extended education , which frequently would have been financed by ...
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... wartime benefit , we have concluded that a limited exception is probably in order . This is represented by H.R. 4306 as amended in the House of Representatives . The Administrator's report on that bill has been favorable . The extension ...
... wartime benefit , we have concluded that a limited exception is probably in order . This is represented by H.R. 4306 as amended in the House of Representatives . The Administrator's report on that bill has been favorable . The extension ...
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86th Congress Administration amended American Legion American Veterans Committee AMVETS armed conflict Armed Forces beginning on February believe bill Blackwell Catholic War Veterans Chairman children of deceased children of persons children of veterans Committee on Labor conditions simulating coverage covered death compensation death resulted deceased veterans direct result disability incurred Educational Assistance Act educational benefits eligible ending on June engaged in extrahazardous extended extrahazardous duty extrahazardous service Foreign Wars GUNDLACH including such service induction period infiltration courses June 30 Korean conflict Labor and Public LISTER HILL maneuvers MEARS military duty MOORE orphans educational assistance peacetime service performance of duty period beginning Philippine Scouts provide educational assistance result of armed Senator PROUTY Senator YARBOROUGH service under conditions service-connected disability arising servicemen statement STOVER title 38 Training and Service U.S. Senate United States Code veteran whose death Veterans of Foreign wartime rates wartime service World World War II
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Page 3 - In the case of any individual who is an "eligible person" solely by virtue of subsection (a) of this section, and who is above the age of seventeen years and below the age of twenty-three years on the date of enactment of this...
Page 14 - I of this regulation, if the disability resulted from an injury or disease received in line of duty (1) as a direct result of armed conflict, or (2) while engaged in extra hazardous service, including such service under conditions simulating war, or (3) while the United States is engaged in war.
Page 15 - Service falling within the second category, as involving risks beyond those ordinarily encountered in routine peacetime duties, includes among others the following: Under climatic or other conditions which subject the person to excessively high or low temperatures and predispose to disease, or upon exposure to any conditions which he would not customarily or ordinarily be called upon to endure in ordinary peacetime service. Individual actions incident to performance of service duties of exceptional...
Page 4 - For these reasons, and those contained in the report which the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs is making to your committee on this bill, this office strongly recommends that this measure not be enacted. Sincerely yours, PHILLIP S. HUGHES, Assistant Director for Legislative Reference.
Page 15 - ... results directly from the use of any instrumentality employed as a weapon in a war, expedition or occupation, battle, skirmish, raid, Invasion, rebellion, insurrection, guerrilla action, etc. The concept relates to the actual use of firearms or other instrumentalities of war including submarine or aircraft by a belligerent nation or faction with which the United States is not at war, under circumstances endangering the lives or safety of members of our forces. (c) "Extrahazardous service. Including...
Page 20 - Korean conflict" and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "the Korean conflict, or the induction period".
Page 16 - Injury, or death resulting therefrom, incurred while engaged in extra hazardous service, if in line of duty and not the result of some cause independent of the extra hazardous service will be held within the contemplation of the law. (6) It will be seen that the innumerable combinations of circumstances which may exist in connection with the incurrence of death, injury or disease clearly preclude a line of definite demarcation between service which is extra hazardous and that which is attended by...
Page 3 - induction period" means (A) the period beginning September 16, 1940, and ending December 6, 1941, and the period beginning January 1, 1947, and ending June 26, 1950, and (B) the period beginning on February 1, 1955, and ending on the day before the first day thereafter on which individuals (other than individuals liable for induction by reason of a prior deferment) are no longer liable for induction for training and service into the Armed Forces under the Universal Military Training and Service Act.
Page 15 - Servicing the aircraft while the propeller revolves, or loading or unloading explosives from aircraft is considered extra hazardous. Testing or demonstrating explosives, and demolition work with explosives, are considered extra hazardous. Other examples are duty on convoy or patrol vessels and while manning guns on merchant vessels. Service falling within the second category, as involving risks beyond those ordinarily encountered in routine peacetime duties, includes among others, the following:...
Page 16 - extra hazardous service, including such service under conditions simulating war." The expanding Army and Navy in 1940-41, from the standpoint of their training and operations, are to be regarded as under emergency conditions in relation to national defense in the face of threatened war. The haste of this organization and training, the introduction of new methods of combat training, the inclusion of large numbers of men who would not expect to serve their country under arms except in time of war are...