Title II -- PROVISIONS RELATING TO BASIC PAY AND SPECIAL PAYS
BASIC PAY
SEC. 201 (a) For the purpose of computing the basic pay of members of the uniformed services, pay grades are prescribed and monthly basic pay for such members is established within each pay grade according to cumulative years of service, as follows:
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(b) For basic pay purposes, commissioned officers are hereby assigned by the rank or grade in which serving, whether under temporary or permanent appointment, to the various pay grades prescribed for commissioned officers by subsection (a) of this section, as follows:
| Pay Grade | Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps | Navy, Coast Guard, and Coast and Geodetic Survey | Public Health Service |
| O-8 | General, lieutenant general, and major general. | Admiral, vice admiral, and rear admiral (upper half). | Surgeon general, deputy surgeon general, and assistant surgeon general having rank of major general. |
| O-7 | Brigadier general. | Rear admiral (lower half) and commodore. | Assistant surgeon general having rank of brigadier general. |
| O-6 | Colonel. | Captain. | Director grade. |
| O-5 | Lieutenant colonel. | Commander. | Senior grade. |
| O-4 | Major. | Lieutenant commander. | Full grade. |
| O-3 | Captain. | Lieutenant. | Senior assistant grade. |
| O-2 | First lieutenant. | Lieutenant (junior grade). | Assistant grade. |
| O-1 | Second lieutenant. | Ensign. | Junior assistant grade. |
(c) For basic pay purposes, warrant officers (including warrant officers heretofore retired) shall be distributed by the Secretary concerned in the various pay grades prescribed for warrant officers in subsection (a) of this section.
(d) For basic pay purposes, enlisted persons shall be distributed by the Secretary concerned in the various pay grades prescribed for enlisted persons in subsection (a) of this section.
(e) All members of the uniformed services when on the active list, when on active duty, or when participating in full-time training, training duty with pay or other full-time duty (provided for or authorized in the National Defense Act, as amended, or in the Naval Reserve Act of 1938, as amended, or in other provisions of law, including participation in exercises or performance of the duties provided for by sections 5, 81, 94, 97, and 99 of the National Defense Act, as amended), and in addition thereto, all members of the National Guard and the Air National Guard when they are entitled by law to receive from the Federal Government the same pay as that authorized for members of the Regular components of the uniformed services of corresponding grade or rank, shall be entitled to receive the basic pay of the pay grade to which assigned, or in which distributed, pursuant to subsection (b), (c), or (d) of this section, in accordance with cumulative years of service: Provided, That in accordance with regulations prescribed by the President, in the case of members of the uniformed services called or ordered to extended active duty in excess of thirty days, active duty shall include the time required to perform travel from home to first duty station and from last duty station to home by the mode of transportation authorized in orders for such members: Provided further, That any full-time training, training duty with pay, or other full-time duty performed by members of the National Guard of the United States or the Air National Guard of the United States, pursuant to this section, while in their status as members of the National Guard or the Air National Guard of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia and which entitles them to receive basic pay, shall be deemed to be active duty in theservice of the United States.
SERVICE CREDITABLE IN COMPUTATION OF BASIC PAY
SEC. 202. (a) Subject to the provisions of subsections (b), (c), and (d) of this section, in computing the cumulative years of service to be counted by members of the uniformed services for determining the amount of basic pay they are entitled to receive upon completion of such years of service, such members shall be credited with--
(1) full time for all periods of active service as a commissioned officer, commissioned warrant officer, warrant officer, Army field clerk, flight officer, and enlisted person in any Regular or Reserve component of any of the uniformed services; and
(2) full time for all periods during which they were enlisted or held appointments as commissioned officers, commissioned warrant officers, warrant officers, Army field clerks, or flight officers, in any of the Regular components of the uniformed services, or in the Regular Army Reserve, or in the Organized Militia prior to July 1, 1916, or in the National Guard, or in the National Guard Reserve, or in the National Guard of the United States, or in the Organized Reserve Corps, or in the Officers' Reserve Corps, or in the Enlisted Reserve Corps, or in the Medical Reserve Corps, or in the Medical Reserve Corps of the Navy, or in the Dental Reserve Corps of the Navy, or in the Naval Militia, or in the National Naval Volunteers, or in the Naval Reserve Force, or in the Naval Reserve, or in the Air National Guard, or in the Air National Guard of the United States, or in the Air Force Reserve, or in the officers' section of the Air Force Reserve, or in the enlisted section of the Air Force Reserve, or in the Air Corps Reserve, or in the Army of the United States without specification of any component thereof, or in the Air Force of the United States without specification of any component thereof, or in the Marine Corps Reserve Force, or in the Marine Corps Reserve, or in the Coast Guard Reserve, or in the Reserve Corps of the Public Health Service, or in the Philippine Scouts, or in the Philippine Constabulary; and
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