amendment to universal military training and service act

amendment to universal military training and service act Sec. 301. Section 4(d)(3) of the Universal Military Training and Service Act, as amended (50 App. U.S.C. 454(d)(3)), is amended to read as follows: “(3) Each person who, subsequent to June 19, 1951, and on or before August 9, 1955, is inducted, enlisted, or appointed, under any provision of law, in the Armed Forces, including the reserve components thereof, or in the National Security Training Corps, prior to attaining the twenty-sixth anniversary of his birth, shall e required to serve on active training and service in the Armed Forces or in training in the National Security Training Corps, 76 Stat. 525and in a reserve component, for a total period of eight years, unless sooner discharged on the grounds of personal hardship, in accordance with regulations and standards prescribed by the Secretary of Defense (or the Secretary of the Treasury with respect to the United States Coast Guard). Each such person, on release from active training and service in the Armed Forces or from training in the National Security Training Corps, if physically and mentally qualified, shall be transferred to a reserve component of the Armed Forces, and shall serve therein for the remainder of the period which he is required to serve under this paragraph and shall be deemed to be a member of the reserve component during that period. If the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, or the Secretary of the Air Force, or the Secretary of the Treasury with respect to the United States Coast Guard, determines that enlistment, enrollment, or appointment in, or assignment to, an organized unit of a reserve component or an officers’ training program of the armed force in which he served is available to. and can, without undue personal hardship, be filled by such a person, that person shall enlist, enroll, or accept, appointment in, or accept assignment to, the organized unit or officers’ training program, and serve satisfactorily therein.”