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Title VI: MILITARY COMPENSATION AND OTHER BENEFITS

Sec. 605Expansions of authorities to contract with members of the Senior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps

TL;DR

Amends title 10, United States Code relating to expansions of authorities to contract with members of the senior reserve officers’ training corps.

Statutory text

(a) Expansion of authority to contract with members ineligible for advanced trainingSection 2103a(a) of title 10, United States Code is amended in the matter preceding paragraph (1) by striking who has completed successfully the first year of a four-year Senior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps course and.

(b) Contracting bonus: increased maximum bonus; expansion of training covered by contractSection 336 of title 37, United States Code, is amended—(1)in subsection (b), by striking $5,000 and inserting $15,000; and(2)in subsection

(c) (1), by striking field training or a practice cruise under section 2104

(b)

(6) (A)(ii) of title 10 and inserting training requirements prescribed by the Secretary concerned.