Women’s Army Corps: Director; Deputy Director; other positions

§ 3071. Women’s Army Corps: Director; Deputy Director; other positions (a) There is a Women’s Army Corps in the Regular Army. (b) The Secretary of the Army shall appoint, from the commissioned officers of the Regular Army in the Women’s Army Corps, a Director and a Deputy Director of that corps, to serve during his pleasure, but normally not for more than four years. The Director is the adviser to the Secretary on Women’s Army Corps matters. Without vacating her regular grade, the Director is entitled to the rank, pay, and allowances of a colonel while so serving, and the Deputy Director, if she has a lower regular grade, is entitled to the rank, pay, and allowances of a lieutenant colonel while so serving. (c) The Secretary shall designate the positions that he finds necessary for the administration and training of the Women’s Army Corps. He shall fill those positions from officers of that corps or from female members of the Army Reserve who are on active duty. Each person holding such a position serves during the pleasure of the Secretary. If she has a lower regular or reserve grade, she is entitled, while so serving and without vacating that grade, to the rank, pay, and allowances of a lieutenant colonel or major, as the Secretary determines. (d) Only officers whose regular grade is lieutenant colonel are eligible for appointment under subsection (b), and only officers whose regular or reserve grade is above captain are eligible for designation under subsection (c).