(3) for commissioned officers in service on June 30, 1922, all service which was then counted in computing longevity pay, and service as a contract surgeon serving full time; and
(4) full time for all periods during which they held appointments as nurses, reserve nurses, or commissioned officers in the Army Nurse Corps, the Navy Nurse Corps, the Nurse Corps of the Public Health Service, or the reserve components thereof; and
(5) full time for all periods during which they were deck officers or junior engineers in the Coast and Geodetic Survey; and
(6) all service which, under any provision of law in effect on the effective date of this section is authorized to be credited for the purpose of computing longevity pay.
(b) Members of the uniformed services shall accrue additional service credit for basic pay purposes, for periods while on a temporary disability retired list, honorary retired list, or a retired list of any of the uniformed services, or while authorized to receive retired pay, retirement pay, or retainer pay as a member of the Fleet Reserve or Fleet Marine Corps Reserve, from any of the uniformed services or from the Veterans' Administration, or while a member of the Honorary Reserve of the Officers' Reserve Corps or Organized Reserve Corps: Provided, That, except for active service as prescribed in section 202 (a) (1), the service credit authorized in this section shall not be included to increase retired pay, disability retirement pay, retirement pay, or retainer pay while on a retired list, on a temporary disability retired list, in a retired status, or in the Fleet Reserve or Fleet Marine Corps Reserve, except as provided in title IV of this Act.
(c) The periods of time hereinabove authorized to be counted in the computation of basic pay shall, under such regulations as the Secretary concerned may prescribe, include all service heretofore or hereafter performed by members of the uniformed services prior to their attainment of eighteen years of age.
(d) The period of time to be counted in the computation of basic pay shall be the total of all periods authorized to be counted for such purpose in any of the uniformed services, but the same period of time shall not, for any reason, be counted more than once: Provided, That retired enlisted men heretofore or hereafter retired with credit for thirty years' service in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, and who served beyond the continental limits of the United States between 1898-1912, such service having been computed under previous laws as double time toward retirement, shall be entitled to receive the maximum retired pay now or hereafter provided for the grade in which retired.
SPECIAL PAY-PHYSICIANS AND DENTISTS
SEC. 203. (a) The term "commissioned officers", as used in this section, shall be interpreted to mean only (1) those commissioned officers in the Medical and Dental Corps of the Regular Army, Navy, and Air Force and commissioned medical and dental officers of the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service who were on active duty on September 1, 1947; (2) those officers who, heretofore but subsequent to September 1, 1947, have been or who, prior to September 1, 1952, may be commissioned in the Medical and Dental Corps of the Regular Army, Navy, and Air Force or as medical and dental officers of the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service; (3) such officers who on September 1, 1947, were or who thereafter have been or may be commissioned in the Medical and Dental Corps of the Officers' Reserve Corps, the United States Air Force Reserve, the Naval Reserve, the National Guard, the National Guard of the United States, the Air National Guard, the Air National Guard of the United States, the Army of the United States, the Air Force of the United States, or as medical and dental officers of the Reserve Corps of the Public Health Service and who heretofore, but subsequent to September 1, 1947, have volunteered and been accepted for extended active duty of one year or longer, or who may, prior to September 1, 1952, volunteer and be accepted for extended active duty of one year or longer; (4) general officers appointed from the Medical and Dental Corps of the Regular Army, the Officers' Reserve Corps, the National Guard, the National Guard of the United States, the Army of the United States, the Regular Air Force, the United States Air Force Reserve, the Air National Guard, the Air National Guard of the United States, and the Air Force of the United States who were on active duty on September 1, 1947; and (5) general officers who, subsequent to September 1 1947, have been or who may be appointed from those officers of the Medical and Dental Corps of the Regular Army, the Officers' Reserve Corps, the National Guard, the National Guard of the United States, the Army of the United States, the Regular Air Force, the United States Air Force Reserve, the Air National Guard the Air National Guard of the United States, and the Air Force of the United States who are included in parts (1), (2), or (3) of this subsection.
(b) In addition to any pay, allowances, special or incentive pays that they are otherwise entitled to receive, commissioned officers as defined in subsection (a) of this section shall be entitled to receive special pay at the rate of $100 per month for each month of active service: Provided, That such sum shall not be included in computing the amount of increase in pay authorized by any other provision of this Act or in computing retired pay, disability retirement pay, or any severance pay: Provided further, That the commissioned officers described in subsection (a) (3) of this section shall be entitled to receive the pay provided by this subsection only during periods of volunteer service: And provided further, That no commissioned officer as described in subsection (a) of this section shall, while he is serving as a medical or dental intern, be entitled to receive the special pay of $100 per month as is provided in this subsection.
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