APPLICABILITY OF CHAPTER 36 TO RESERVE OFFICERS DURING WAR OR NATIONAL EMERGENCY.

SEC. 1624. APPLICABILITY OF CHAPTER 36 TO RESERVE OFFICERS DURING WAR OR NATIONAL EMERGENCY. Section 641 is amended— (1) by inserting “(a)” before “Officers in the following”; and (2) by adding at the end the following: “(b) Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the military department concerned, a reserve officer who is ordered to active duty (whether voluntarily or involuntarily) during a war or national emergency and who would otherwise be placed on the active-duty list may be excluded from that list as determined by 108 STAT. 2962the Secretary concerned. Exclusion of an officer from the active-duty list as the result of action by the Secretary concerned under the preceding sentence shall expire not later than 24 months after the date on which the officer enters active duty under an order to active duty covered by that sentence.”.