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10 U.S.C. § 541 — Graduates of the United States Military, Naval, and Air Force Academies
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**(a)** Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each cadet at the United States Military Academy or the United States Air Force Academy, and each midshipman at the United States Naval Academy, is entitled, before graduating from that Academy, to state his preference for appointment, upon graduation, as a commissioned officer in either the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Space Force.
**(b)** With the consent of the Secretary of the military department administering the Academy from which the cadet or midshipman is to be graduated, and of the Secretary of the military department having jurisdiction over the armed force for which that graduate stated his preference, the graduate is entitled to be accepted for appointment in that armed force. However, not more than 12½ percent of any graduating class at an Academy may be appointed in armed forces not under the jurisdiction of the military department administering that Academy.
**(c)** The Secretary of Defense shall, by regulation, provide for the equitable distribution of appointments in cases where more than 12½ percent of the graduating class of any Academy request appointment in armed forces not under the jurisdiction of the military department administering that Academy.
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**(a)** Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each cadet at the United States Military Academy or the United States Air Force Academy, and each midshipman at the United States Naval Academy, is entitled, before graduating from that Academy, to state his preference for appointment, upon graduation, as a commissioned officer in either the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Space Force.
**(b)** With the consent of the Secretary of the military department administering the Academy from which the cadet or midshipman is to be graduated, and of the Secretary of the military department having jurisdiction over the armed force for which that graduate stated his preference, the graduate is entitled to be accepted for appointment in that armed force. However, not more than 12½ percent of any graduating class at an Academy may be appointed in armed forces not under the jurisdiction of the military department administering that Academy.
**(c)** The Secretary of Defense shall, by regulation, provide for the equitable distribution of appointments in cases where more than 12½ percent of the graduating class of any Academy request appointment in armed forces not under the jurisdiction of the military department administering that Academy.
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**(a)** Under such conditions as the Secretary of the Army may prescribe, the Superintendent of the Academy may confer the degree of bachelor of science upon graduates of the Academy.
**(b)** Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a cadet who completes the prescribed course of instruction may, upon graduation, be appointed a second lieutenant in the Regular Army under [section 531 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section531&num=0&edition=prelim).
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**(a)** The Superintendent of the Academy may, under such conditions as the Secretary of the Air Force may prescribe, confer the degree of bachelor of science upon graduates of the Academy.
**(b)** Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a cadet who completes the prescribed course of instruction may, upon graduation, be appointed a second lieutenant in the Regular Air Force under [section 531 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section531&num=0&edition=prelim) or a second lieutenant in the Space Force under section 531 or 20201 of this title.
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**(a)** The following persons are entitled to the basic pay of the pay grade to which assigned or distributed, in accordance with their years of service computed under [section 205 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title37-section205&num=0&edition=prelim)—
(1) a member of a uniformed service who is on active duty; and
(2) a member of a uniformed service, or a member of the National Guard who is not a Reserve of the Army or the Air Force, who is participating in full-time training, training duty with pay, or other full-time duty, provided by law, including participation in exercises or the performance of duty under section 10302, 10305, 10502, or 12402 of title 10, or section 503, 504, 505, or 506 of title 32.
**(b)** For the purposes of subsection (a), under regulations prescribed by the President, the time necessary for a member of a uniformed service who is called or ordered to active duty for a period of more than 30 days to travel from his home to his first duty station and from his last duty station to his home, by the mode of transportation authorized in his call or orders, is considered active duty.
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(1) A member of the National Guard who is called into Federal service for a period of 30 days or less is entitled to basic pay from the date on which the member, in person or by authorized telephonic or electronic means, contacts the member’s unit.
(2) Paragraph (1) does not authorize any expenditure to be paid for a period before the date on which the unit receives the member’s contact provided under such paragraph.
(3) The Secretary of the Army, with respect to the Army National Guard, and the Secretary of the Air Force, with respect to the Air National Guard, shall prescribe such regulations as may be necessa
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TITLE 10—ARMED FORCES
§ 541
preprofessional education required by a majority of in-
stitutions which award degrees in that health profes-
sion. The percentage of such persons shall be computed
on an annual basis for each health profession from the
data for the year in which the person being appointed,
designated, or assigned was admitted to a professional
school. However, a person may not receive additional
credit under this clause if the amount of his bacca-
laureate education does not exceed, by one or more, the
minimum number of years of preprofessional education
required by a majority of institutions which award de-
grees for that health profession, determined on the
basis prescribed in the preceding sentence.’’
1987—Subsec. (b)(1)(B). Pub. L. 100–180 designated ex-
isting provisions as cl. (i) and added cl. (ii).
1983—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 98–94 inserted ‘‘, the Na-
tional Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or the
Public Health Service’’.
1981—Subsec. (b)(1)(A). Pub. L. 97–22, § 3(c)(1), inserted
‘‘, designated, or assigned’’ in first sentence after ‘‘per-
sons appointed’’ and substituted ‘‘Except as provided in
clause (E), in determining the number of years of con-
structive service to be credited under this clause to of-
ficers in any professional field, the Secretary concerned
shall credit an officer with, but with not more than,
the number of years of postsecondary education in ex-
cess of four that are required by a majority of institu-
tions that award degrees in that professional field for
completion of the advanced education or award of the
advanced degree’’ for ‘‘(Except as provided in clause
(E), in determining the years of constructive service
under this clause, the Secretary concerned shall grant
credit for only the n
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