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Career Compensation Act of 1949 PG-6

SPECIAL PAY--SEA AND FOREIGN DUTY

SEC. 206. Under such regulations as the President may prescribe, enlisted persons of the uniformed services entitled to receive basic pay shall, in addition thereto, while on sea duty or while on duty in any place beyond the continental limits of the United States or in Alaska, be entitled to receive pay at the following monthly rates:

Placeholder: the following verbiage in the law is the sea and foreign duty pay chart for enlisted personnel (E-1 through E-7) -- commission nor warrant officers rated the pay. To save space and duplication on this Web site, the pay chart that would normally be found here, is here: 1950 sea pay.

SPECIAL PAY--REENLISTMENT BONUS

SEC. 207. (a) Members of the uniformed services who enlist under the conditions set forth in subsection (b) of this section within three months from the date of their discharge or separation, or within such lesser period of time as the Secretary concerned may determine from time to time, shall be paid a lump sum reenlistment bonus of $40, $90, $160, $250, or $360 upon enlistment for a period of two, three, four, five, or six years, respectively; and, upon enlistment for an unspecified period of time amounting to more than six years a lump sum reenlistment bonus of $360 shall be paid, and, upon the completion of six years' enlisted service in such enlistment, for each year thereafter a lump sum payment of $60 shall be made, subject to the limitation that the total amount paid shall not exceed $1,440. No reenlistment bonus shall be paid for more than four enlistments entered into after the effective date of this section: Provided, That the bonus to be paid in the case of a person reenlisting for a period which would extend the length of his active Federal service beyond thirty years shall be computed as if said reenlistment were for the minimum number of years necessary to permit such person to complete thirty years' active Federal service.

(b) For the purpose of payment of the reenlistment bonus authorized by subsection (a) of this section, enlistment in one of the Regular services following (1) compulsory or voluntary active duty in such service, or (2) extended active duty of one year or more in a Reserve component of such service, shall be considered a reenlistment.

(c) Enlisted persons of the uniformed services, who, prior to expiration of the period for which they have reenlisted, extend their reenlistment to any one of the longer enlistment periods mentioned in subsection (a) of this section, shall be paid the sum of $20 for each year of such extension subject to the limitations contained in subsection (a) of this section.

(d) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, a member of the uniformed services who reenlists within three months after being discharged from the enlistment entered into prior to the date of enactment of this Act, or who reenlists within three months after being relieved from active service as a commissioned officer or warrant officer under appointment made prior to the date of enactment of this Act if such commissioned or warrant service immediately followed enlisted service, shall be entitled to receive either (1) enlistment allowances in the amount and under the provisions of law in effect immediately prior to the date of enactment of this Act, or (2) reenlistment bonus in the amount and under the provisions of this section, whichever is the greater amount: Provided, That the enlistment allowance payable under (1) hereunder shall in no event exceed $300.

(e) The Secretary concerned shall prescribe regulations for the administration of this section in his department.


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[1]United States Statutes at Large, Volume 63, pg. 802-841, Government Printing Office.

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