RETIRED PAY GRADE OF CERTAIN WARRANT OFFICERS AND ENLISTED PERSONS
SEC. 513. Any enlisted person or warrant officer of the uniformed services who served in World War I, heretofore or hereafter retired for any reason, shall (1) be advanced on the retired list of the service concerned to the highest federally recognized officer rank or grade satisfactorily held by such enlisted person or warrant officer under a permanent or temporary appointment for any period of service between April 6, 1917, and November 11, 1918, and (2) if not entitled to receive retired pay or disability retirement pay based on a higher officer rank or grade by some other provision of law, be entitled to receive retired pay or disability retirement pay computed on the basis of the officer rank or grade to which previously advanced on a retired list or computed on the basis of the officer grade or rank authorized by this section: Provided, That enlisted persons and warrant officers of the uniformed services, heretofore or hereafter advanced on the retired list to a higher officer rank or grade pursuant to any provision of law shall, if application therefor is made to the Secretary concerned within one year from the effective date of this section or within one year after the date of advancement on the retired list, whichever is the later, and subject to the approval of the Secretary concerned, be restored to their former retired enlisted or warrant-officer status, as the case may be, and shall thereafter be deemed to be enlisted or warrant-officer personnel, as appropriate, for all purposes, including the computation of their retired pay based on such enlisted or warrant officer rank, grade, or rating, as the case may be.
RETIRED MEMBERS AND FORMER MEMBERS SERVING ON ACTIVE DUTY
SEC. 514. Retired members and former members of the uniformed services, including members of the Fleet Reserve and the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve, shall, when serving on active duty, be entitled to receive the pay and allowances to which entitled by the provisions of this Act for the grade or rank in which they are serving on such active duty, and shall, when on such active-duty status, have the same pay and allowance rights while on leave of absence or while sick as members of the uniformed services entitled to receive basic pay of similar grade or rank, and, if death occurs when on active-duty status, while on leave of absence, or while sick, their dependents shall not thereby be deprived of any of the benefits provided in the Act of December 17, 1919 (41 Stat. 367; 10 U. S. C. 903), as amended, and in the Act of June 4, 1920 (41 Stat. 824; 34 U. S. C. 943), as amended.
PROVISION TO RETAIN PRESENT COMPENSATION AND TO LIMIT THE APPICATIONOF THE SERVICEMEN'S DEPENDENTS ALLOWANCE ACT OF 1942, AS AMENDED
SEC. 515. (a) No member serving on active duty on the effective date of this Act shall, prior to July 1, 1952, and while serving on continuous active duty, including for the purpose of such continuous active-duty service in a reenlistment entered into within three months from the date of last discharge, suffer any reduction by reason of this Act in the total compensation which he is entitled to receive under any provision of law in effect on the day immediately preceding such effective date: Provided, That (1) the provisions of this subsection shall cease to apply to such member whenever he shall become entitled to receive total compensation in excess of the amount to which he was entitled on the day preceding such effective date; and (2) the provisions of this subsection shall cease to apply to any part of such total compensation upon the failure of such member to qualify therefor: Provided further, That for the purposes of this subsection the computation of such total compensation shall not include contributions by the Government under the Servicemen's Dependents Allowance Act of 1942, as amended, travel and transportation allowances, per diem and station allowances, pay of court stenographers of the Army and Air Force, enlistment allowance, or reenlistment bonuses.
(b) Any member who, on the effective date of this Act, is serving in an enlistment contracted prior to the date of enactment of this Act, or any member whose enlistment terminated in the period between the date of enactment and the effective date of this Act, both dates inclusive, and who has entered into a new enlistment within one month of such termination shall not, prior to the expiration of the enlistment or reenlistment described above, or July 1, 1952, whichever is earlier, suffer any reduction by reason of this Act in the total compensation which he is entitled to receive under any provision of law in effect on the day immediately preceding the effective date of this Act: Provided, That for the purposes of this subsection, unless otherwise provided, the computation of such total compensation shall not include travel and transportation allowances, per diem and station allowances, pay of court stenographers of the Army and Air Force, enlistment allowance, or reenlistment bonuses, and following that date which is the last day of the sixth calendar month following the month in which this Act is enacted, shall not include the contribution by the Government under the provisions of the Servicemen's Dependents Allowance Act of 1942, as amended, to monthly family allowance (1) for a father or mother dependent for substantial support or (2) for a father or mother dependent for chief support when a monthly family allowance is authorized for a wife or child of such member or (3) for a brother or sister dependent for chief or substantial support, but shall include other contributions by the Government under the Servicemen's Dependents Allowance Act of 1942, as amended: Provided further, That, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding proviso, in the case of any member who, on the effective date of this Act, is serving in an enlistment or reenlistment which was contracted prior to July 1, 1946, such member shall not, prior to the expiration of such enlistment or reenlistment or July 1, 1952, whichever is earlier, suffer any reduction by reason of this Act in the total compensation which he is entitled to receive under any provision of law in effect on the day immediately preceding the effective date of this Act, the computation of such total compensation, for the purpose of this proviso only, not to include travel and transportation allowances, per diem and station allowances, pay of court stenographers of the Army and Air Force, enlistment allowance, or reenlistment bonuses, but shall include all contributions by the Government under the Servicemen's Dependents Allowance Act of 1942, as amended: Provided further, That (1) the provisions of this subsection shall cease to apply to such member whenever he shall become entitled to receive total compensation under the provisions of this Act in excess of the amount of such total compensation to which he was entitled on the day preceding the effective date of this Act; and (2) the provisions of this subsection shall cease to apply to any part of such total compensation upon the failure of such member or his dependent or dependents to qualify therefor or to be entitled thereto: Provided further, That when a member is furnished Government quarters adequate for himself, if without dependents, or adequate for himself and dependents, if with dependents, the total sum saved for him by this subsection shall be reduced by the cash value of the basic allowance for quarters established under section 302 of this Act: And provided further, That in the case of any enlisted person on active duty on the effective date of this Act whose total compensation, not including travel and transportation allowances, per diem and station allowances, pay of court stenographers of the Army and Air Force, enlistment allowance, or reenlistment bonuses, but including the amount of the Government's contribution to such member's dependents under the Servicemen's Dependents Allowance Act of 1942, as amended, on the day immediately preceding the effective date of this Act, exceeds the amount of the total compensation to which he would become entitled under the provisions of this Act, not including any Government contributions to his dependents under the Servicemen's Dependents Allowance Act of 1942, as amended, he shall, if application is made within one year from the effective date of this Act, be discharged by the Secretary concerned.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the provisions of the Servicemen's Dependents Allowance Act of 1942, as amended, shall, on the date of enactment of this Act, become inoperative for the dependent or dependents of all members other than those prescribed in subsection (b) of this section.
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