Pub. L. 82-476, pt. II, ch. 2, sec. 224

Sec. 224. After the date of enactment of this Act, all appointments of Reserve officers shall be for an indefinite term. All officers holding appointments on the date of enactment in the National Guard of the United States, or the Officers’ Reserve Corps, or the Naval Reserve, or the Marine Corps Reserve. or the Air National Guard of the United States, or the Air Force Reserve, or the Coast Guard Reserve shall be considered to hold such appointments as Reserve officers, as the case may be, in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, or Coast Guard, as appropriate, and in the case of commissioned officers to hold commissions as provided in section 222 (b) of this Act. Each such officer not holding an appointment for an indefinite term on the date of enactment of this Act shall be given an appointment for an indefinite term in lieu of his current appointment if such officer, after written 66 Stat. 488 notification by competent authority which shall be given within six months from the effective date of this Act, shall agree in writing to have his current appointment continued for an indefinite term. In the event such officer does not so agree in writing, the term of his present appointment shall not be changed by this section. All persons now enlisted in the National Guard of the United States, or the Enlisted Reserve Corps, or the Naval Reserve, or the Marine Corps Reserve, or the Air National Guard of the United States, or the Air Force Reserve, or the Coast Guard Reserve shall be considered to be enlisted as Reserves in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, or Coast Guard, as appropriate, without change in the periods of their current enlistments.