APPLICABILITY TO PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE OF PROHIBITION ON CREDITING CADET OR MIDSHIPMEN SERVICE AT THE SERVICE ACADEMIES.

SEC. 581. APPLICABILITY TO PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE OF PROHIBITION ON CREDITING CADET OR MIDSHIPMEN SERVICE AT THE SERVICE ACADEMIES. (a) Prohibition on Counting Enlisted Service Performed While at Service Academy.— Subsection (a) of section 971 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by inserting before the period at the end the following: “or an officer in the Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service”. (b) Prohibition on Counting Service as a Cadet or Midshipman.— Subsection (b) of such section is amended to read as follows: “(b) Prohibition on Counting Service as a Cadet or Midshipman.— In computing length of service for any purpose, service as a cadet or midshipman may not be credited to any of the following officers: “(1) An officer of the Navy or Marine Corps. “(2) A commissioned officer of the Army or Air Force. “(3) An officer of the Coast Guard. “(4) An officer in the commissioned corps of the Public Health Service.”. (c) Technical Amendments.— (1) Such section is further amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: “(c) Service as a Cadet or Midshipman Defined.— In this section, the term ‘service as a cadet or midshipman’ means— “(1) service as a cadet at the United States Military Academy, United States Air Force Academy, or United States Coast Guard Academy; or “(2) service as a midshipman at the United States Naval Academy.” (2) Subsection (a) of such section is further amended— (A) by inserting “Prohibition on Counting Enlisted Service Performed While at Service Academy or in Naval Reserve.—” after “(a)”; and 110 STAT. 2538 (B) by striking out “while also serving” and all that follows through “Naval Academy or” and inserting in lieu thereof “while also performing service as a cadet or midshipman or serving as a midshipman”. (3) The heading of such section, and the item relating to such section in the table of sections at the beginning of chapter 49 of such title, are amended by striking out the seventh word.