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37 U.S.C. § 415 — Uniform allowance: officers; initial allowance
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**(a)** Subject to subsection (b), an officer of an armed force is entitled to an initial allowance of not more than $400 as reimbursement for the purchase of required uniforms and equipment—
(1) upon first reporting for active duty (other than for training) for a period of more than 90 days;
(2) upon completing at least 14 days of active duty as a member of a reserve component;
(3) upon completing 14 periods, each of which was of at least two hours’ duration, of inactive-duty training as a member of the Ready Reserve; or
(4) upon reporting for the first period of active duty required by [section 2121(c) of title 10](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2121/c&num=0&edition=prelim) as a member of the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship program.
**(b)** An officer who has received an initial uniform reimbursement or allowance under any other law is not entitled to an initial allowance under subsection (a).
**(c)** An allowance of $250 for uniforms and equipment may be paid to each commissioned officer of the Public Health Service who is—
(1) on active duty or on inactive duty training status; and
(2) required by directive of the Surgeon General to wear a uniform.
An officer is not entitled to more than one allowance under this subsection.
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**(a)** Subject to subsection (b), an officer of an armed force is entitled to an initial allowance of not more than $400 as reimbursement for the purchase of required uniforms and equipment—
(1) upon first reporting for active duty (other than for training) for a period of more than 90 days;
(2) upon completing at least 14 days of active duty as a member of a reserve component;
(3) upon completing 14 periods, each of which was of at least two hours’ duration, of inactive-duty training as a member of the Ready Reserve; or
(4) upon reporting for the first period of active duty required by [section 2121(c) of title 10](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2121/c&num=0&edition=prelim) as a member of the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship program.
**(b)** An officer who has received an initial uniform reimbursement or allowance under any other law is not entitled to an initial allowance under subsection (a).
**(c)** An allowance of $250 for uniforms and equipment may be paid to each commissioned officer of the Public Health Service who is—
(1) on active duty or on inactive duty training status; and
(2) required by directive of the Surgeon General to wear a uniform.
An officer is not entitled to more than one allowance under this subsection.
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**(a)** In addition to the allowance provided by [section 415 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title37-section415&num=0&edition=prelim), a reserve officer of an armed force, an officer of the Army or the Air Force without specification of component, an officer of the Space Force not on sustained duty, or a regular officer of an armed force appointed under section 2106 or 2107 of title 10 is entitled to not more than $200 as reimbursement for additional uniforms and equipment required on that duty, for each time that the officer enters on active duty for a period of more than 90 days.
**(b)** Subsection (a) does not apply to a tour of active duty if—
(1) the officer, during that tour or within a period of two years before entering on that tour, received, under any law, an initial uniform reimbursement or allowance of more than $400; or
(2) the officer enters on that tour within two years after completing a period of active duty of more than 90 days’ duration.
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The Surgeon General shall be appointed from the Regular Corps for a four-year term by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Surgeon General shall be appointed from individuals who (1) are members of the Regular Corps, and (2) have specialized training or significant experience in public health programs. Upon the expiration of such term the Surgeon General, unless reappointed, shall revert to the grade and number in the Regular Corps or Ready Reserve Corps that he would have occupied had he not served as Surgeon General.
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**(a) In General.—** The following definitions apply in this title:
(1) The term “United States”, in a geographic sense, means the States and the District of Columbia.
(2) Repealed. Pub. L. 109–163, div. A, title X, § 1057(a)(1), Jan. 6, 2006, 119 Stat. 3440.]
(3) The term “possessions” includes the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Guano Islands, so long as they remain possessions, but does not include any Commonwealth.
(4) The term “armed forces” means the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, and Coast Guard.
(5) The term “uniformed services” means—
(A) the armed forces;
(B) the commissioned corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; and
(C) the commissioned corps of the Public Health Service.
(6) The term “department”, when used with respect to a military department, means the executive part of the department and all field headquarters, forces, reserve components, installations, activities, and functions under the control or supervision of the Secretary of the department. When used with respect to the Department of Defense, such term means the executive part of the department, including the executive parts of the military departments, and all field headquarters, forces, reserve components, installations, activities, and functions under the control or supervision of the Secretary of Defense, including those of the military departments.
(7) The term “executive part of the department” means the executive part of the Department of Defense, Department of the Army, Department of the Navy, or Department of the Air Force, as the case may be, at the seat of government.
(8) The term “military departments” means the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, and the Department of the Air Force.
(9) The term
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**(a)** An enlisted member who accepts an appointment as an officer shall, for service as an officer, be paid the greater of—
(1) the pay and allowances to which the officer is entitled as an officer; or
(2) the pay and allowances to which the officer would be entitled if the officer were in the last enlisted grade the officer held before the appointment as an officer.
**(b)** A warrant officer who accepts an appointment as a commissioned officer in a pay grade above W–4 shall, for service as such a commissioned officer, be paid the greater of—
(1) the pay and allowances to which the officer is entitled as such a commissioned officer;
(2) the pay and allowances to which the officer would be entitled if the officer were in the last warrant officer grade the officer held before the appointment as such a commissioned officer; or
(3) in the case of an officer who was formerly an enlisted member, the pay and allowances to which the officer would be entitled if the officer were in the last enlisted grade the officer held before the appointment as an officer.
**(c)** For the purposes of this section—
(1) the pay and allowances of a grade formerly held by an officer include—
(A) subject to subsection (d), special and incentive pays under chapter 5 of this title; and
(B) subject to subsection (e), allowances under chapter 7 of this title; and
(2) the rates of pay and allowances of a grade which an officer formerly held are those to which the officer would have been entitled had the officer remained in that grade and continued to receive the increases in pay and allowances authorized for that grade, as otherwise provided in this title.
**(d)**
(1) In determining the amount of the pay and allowances of a grade formerly held by an officer, the following special and
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**(a) Presentation of flag** Upon the release of an officer of the commissioned corps of the Service from active commissioned service for retirement, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall present a United States flag to the officer.
**(b) Multiple presentations not authorized** An officer is not eligible for presentation of a flag under subsection (a) if the officer has previously been presented a flag under this section or any other provision of law providing for the presentation of a United States flag incident to release from active service for retirement.
**(c) No cost to recipient** The presentation of a flag under this section shall be at no cost to the recipient.
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TITLE 37—PAY AND ALLOWANCES OF THE UNIFORMED
SERVICES
§ 415
ployees of Public Health Service, and functions of all
agencies of or in Public Health Service, transferred to
Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare by Reorg.
Plan No. 3 of 1966, eff. June 25, 1966, 31 F.R. 8855, 80 Stat.
1610, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Or-
ganization and Employees. Secretary of Health, Edu-
cation, and Welfare redesignated Secretary of Health
and Human Services by section 3508(b) of Title 20, Edu-
cation.
§ 415. Uniform allowance: officers; initial allow-
ance
(a) Subject to subsection (b), an officer of an
armed force is entitled to an initial allowance of
not more than $400 as reimbursement for the
purchase of required uniforms and equipment—
(1) upon first reporting for active duty (other
than for training) for a period of more than 90
days;
(2) upon completing at least 14 days of active
duty as a member of a reserve component;
(3) upon completing 14 periods, each of which
was of at least two hours’ duration, of inac-
tive-duty training as a member of the Ready
Reserve; or
(4) upon reporting for the first period of ac-
tive duty required by section 2121(c) of title 10
as a member of the Armed Forces Health Pro-
fessions Scholarship program.
(b) An officer who has received an initial uni-
form reimbursement or allowance under any
other law is not entitled to an initial allowance
under subsection (a).
(c) An allowance of $250 for uniforms and
equipment may be paid to each commissioned
officer of the Public Health Service who is—
(1) on active duty or on inactive duty train-
ing status; and
(2) required by directive of the Surgeon Gen-
eral to wear a uniform.
An officer is not entitled to more than one al-
lowance under this subsect
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