TITLE V-MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
TRAINING DUTY WITH OR WITHOUT PAY OF RESERVE AND NATIONAL GUARD PERSONNEL
SEC. 501. (a) Under such regulations as the Secretary concerned may prescribe, and to the extent provided for by law and by appropriations, members of the National Guard, Air National Guard, National Guard of the United States, the Air National Guard of the United States, Organized Reserve Corps, Naval Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve, Coast Guard Reserve, and the Reserve Corps of the Public Health Service, shall be entitled to receive compensation at the rate of one-thirtieth of the basic pay authorized for such members of the uniformed services when entitled to receive basic pay, for each regular period of instruction, or period of appropriate duty, at which they shall have been engaged for not less than two hours, including those performed on Sundays and holidays, or for the performance of such other equivalent training, instruction, or duty or appropriate duties as may be prescribed by the Secretary concerned: Provided, That for each of the several classes of organizations prescribed for the National Guard, Air National Guard, National Guard of the United States, the Air National Guard of the United States, the Organized Reserve Corps, Naval Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve, Coast Guard Reserve, and the Reserve Corps of the Public Health Service, the rules applicable to each of which services and classes within service may differ, the Secretary concerned--
(1) shall prescribe minimum standards which must be met before an assembly for drill or other equivalent period of training, instruction, or duty or appropriate duties may be credited for pay purposes, which minimum standards may require the presence for duty of officers and enlisted personnel equal to or in excess of a minimum number or percentage of unit strength for a specified period of time with participation in a prescribed character of training;
(2) shall prescribe the maximum number of assemblies, or periods of other equivalent training, instruction, or duty or appropriate duties, which may be counted for pay purposes in each fiscal year;
(3) shall prescribe the maximum number of assemblies, or periods of other equivalent training, instruction, or duty or appropriate duties which can be counted for pay purposes in lesser periods of time; and
(4) shall prescribe the minimum number of assemblies or periods of other equivalent training, instruction, or duty or appropriate duties, which must be completed in stated periods of time before the personnel of organizations or units can qualify for pay.
(b) Members of the National Guard, Air National Guard, National Guard of the United States, the Air National Guard of the United States, Organized Reserve Corps, Naval Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve, Coast Guard Reserve, and the Reserve Corps of the Public Health Service, may be given additional training or other duty as provided for by law, without pay, as may be authorized by the Secretary concerned, with their consent, and when such authorized training or other duty without pay is performed they may, in the discretion of the Secretary concerned, be furnished with transportation to and from such duty, with subsistence en route, and, during the performance of such duty, be furnished with subsistence and quarters in kind or commutation thereof at a rate to be fixed from time to time by the Secretary concerned.
(c) In addition to pay provided in subsection (a) of this section, officers of the National Guard, Air National Guard, National Guard of the United States, the Air National Guard of the United States, Organized Reserve Corps, Naval Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve, Coast Guard Reserve, and the Reserve Corps of the Public Health Service, commanding organizations having administrative functions connected therewith shall, whether or not such officers belong to such organizations, be entitled to receive not more than $240 a year for the faithful performance of such administrative functions under such regulations as the Secretary concerned may prescribe; and for the purpose of determining how much shall be paid to such officers so performing such functions, the Secretary concerned may, from time to time, divide them into classes and fix the amount payable to the officers in each class.
(d) Under such regulations as the President may prescribe and to the extent provided for by appropriations, members of the National Guard, Air National Guard, National Guard of the United States, the Air National Guard of the United States, Organized Reserve Corps, Naval Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve, Coast Guard Reserve, and the Reserve Corps of the Public Health Service entitled to receive compensation pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall, when required by competent orders to perform any hazardous duty prescribed by or pursuant to section 204 of this Act for members of the uniformed services entitled to receive basic pay and when in consequence of such orders they do perform any hazardous duty so prescribed, be entitled to receive an increase in compensation equal to one-thirtieth of the monthly incentive pay authorized by section 204 of this Act for the performance of such hazardous duty by members of the uniformed services of corresponding grades entitled to receive basic pay, such increase to be paid to such members, as long as they are qualified to receive such increase, for each regular period of instruction, or period of appropriate duty, at which they shall have been engaged for not less than two hours, including those performed on Sundays and holidays, or for the performance of such other equivalent training, instruction, or duty or appropriate duties as may be prescribed by the Secretary concerned pursuant to subsection (a) of this section.
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