Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 32 : Section 101


   
U.S. Code as of: 01/19/04
Section 101. Definitions

      In addition to the definitions in sections 1-5 of title 1, the
    following definitions apply in this title:
        (1) "Territory" means any Territory organized after this title
      is enacted, so long as it remains a Territory. However, for
      purposes of this title and other laws relating to the militia,
      the National Guard, the Army National Guard of the United States,
      and the Air National Guard of the United States, "Territory"
      includes Guam and the Virgin Islands.
        (2) "Armed forces" means the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine
      Corps, and Coast Guard.
        (3) "National Guard" means the Army National Guard and the Air
      National Guard.
        (4) "Army National Guard" means that part of the organized
      militia of the several States and Territories, Puerto Rico, and
      the District of Columbia, active and inactive, that - 
          (A) is a land force;
          (B) is trained, and has its officers appointed, under the
        sixteenth clause of section 8, article I, of the Constitution;
          (C) is organized, armed, and equipped wholly or partly at
        Federal expense; and
          (D) is federally recognized.

        (5) "Army National Guard of the United States" means the
      reserve component of the Army all of whose members are members of
      the Army National Guard.
        (6) "Air National Guard" means that part of the organized
      militia of the several States and Territories, Puerto Rico, and
      the District of Columbia, active and inactive, that - 
          (A) is an air force;
          (B) is trained, and has its officers appointed, under the
        sixteenth clause of section 8, article I of the Constitution;
          (C) is organized, armed, and equipped wholly or partly at
        Federal expense; and
          (D) is federally recognized.

        (7) "Air National Guard of the United States" means the reserve
      component of the Air Force all of whose members are members of
      the Air National Guard.
        (8) "Officer" means commissioned or warrant officer.
        (9) "Enlisted member" means a person enlisted in, or inducted,
      called, or conscripted into, an armed force in an enlisted grade.
        (10) "Grade" means a step or degree, in a graduated scale of
      office or military rank, that is established and designated as a
      grade by law or regulation.
        (11) "Rank" means the order of precedence among members of the
      armed forces.
        (12) "Active duty" means full-time duty in the active military
      service of the United States. It includes such Federal duty as
      full-time training duty, annual training duty, and attendance,
      while in the active military service, at a school designated as a
      service school by law or by the Secretary of the military
      department concerned. It does not include full-time National
      Guard duty.
        (13) "Supplies" includes material, equipment, and stores of all
      kinds.
        (14) "Shall" is used in an imperative sense.
        (15) "May" is used in a permissive sense. The words "no person
      may * * *" mean that no person is required, authorized, or
      permitted to do the act prescribed.
        (16) "Includes" means "includes but is not limited to".
        (17) "Pay" includes basic pay, special pay, incentive pay,
      retired pay, and equivalent pay, but does not include allowances.
        (18) "Spouse" means husband or wife, as the case may be.
        (19) "Full-time National Guard duty" means training or other
      duty, other than inactive duty, performed by a member of the Army
      National Guard of the United States or the Air National Guard of
      the United States in the member's status as a member of the
      National Guard of a State or territory, the Commonwealth of
      Puerto Rico, or the District of Columbia under section 316, 502,
      503, 504, or 505 of this title for which the member is entitled
      to pay from the United States or for which the member has waived
      pay from the United States.



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