§ 12601. Compensation: Reserve on active duty accepting from any person

Any Reserve who, before being ordered to active duty, was receiving compensation from any person may, while he is on that duty, receive compensation from that person.

§ 12602. Members of Army National Guard of United States and Air National Guard of United States: credit for service as members of National Guard

• (a) For the purposes of laws providing benefits for members of the Army National Guard of the United States and their dependents and beneficiaries—
  • (1) military training, duty, or other service performed by a member of the Army National Guard of the United States in his status as a member of the Army National Guard for which he is entitled to pay from the United States shall be considered military training, duty, or other service, as the case may be, in Federal service as a Reserve of the Army;
  • (2) full-time National Guard duty performed by a member of the Army National Guard of the United States shall be considered active duty in Federal service as a Reserve of the Army; and
  • (3) inactive-duty training performed by a member of the Army National Guard of the United States in his status as a member of the Army National Guard, in accordance with regulations prescribed under section 502 of title 32 or other express provision of law, shall be considered inactive-duty training in Federal service as a Reserve of the Army.
• (b) For the purposes of laws providing benefits for members of the Air National Guard of the United States and their dependents and beneficiaries—
  • (1) military training, duty, or other service performed by a member of the Air National Guard of the United States in his status as a member of the Air National Guard for which he is entitled to pay from the United States shall be considered military training, duty, or other service, as the case may be, in Federal service as a Reserve of the Air Force;
  • (2) full-time National Guard duty performed by a member of the Air National Guard of the United States shall be considered active duty in Federal service as a Reserve of the Air Force; and
  • (3) inactive-duty training performed by a member of the Air National Guard of the United States in his status as a member of the Air National Guard, in accordance with regulations prescribed under section 502 of title 32 or other express provision of law, shall be considered inactive-duty training in Federal service as a Reserve of the Air Force.

§ 12603. Attendance at inactive-duty training assemblies: commercial travel at Federal supply schedule rates

• (a) Commercial travel under Federal supply schedules is authorized for the travel of a Reserve to the location of inactive duty training to be performed by the Reserve and from that location upon completion of the training.
• (b) The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe in regulations such requirements, conditions, and restrictions for travel under the authority of subsection (a) as the Secretary considers appropriate. The regulations shall include policies and procedures for preventing abuses of that travel authority.
• (c) A Reserve is not entitled to Government reimbursement for the cost of travel authorized under subsection (a).
• (d) For the purposes of section 501 of title 40 , travel authorized under subsection (a) shall be treated as transportation for the use of a military department.

§ 12604. Billeting in Department of Defense facilities: Reserves attending inactive-duty training

• (a) The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe regulations authorizing a Reserve traveling to inactive-duty training at a location more than 50 miles from that Reserve’s residence to be eligible for billeting in Department of Defense facilities on the same basis and to the same extent as a member of the armed forces on active duty who is traveling under orders away from the member’s permanent duty station.
• (b) The Secretary shall include in the regulations the means for confirming a Reserve’s eligibility for billeting under subsection (a).

§ 12605. Presentation of United States flag: members transferred from an active status or discharged after completion of eligibility for retired pay

• (a) Upon the transfer from an active status or discharge of a Reserve who has completed the years of service required for eligibility for retired pay under chapter 1223 of this title, the Secretary concerned shall present a United States flag to the member.
• (b) A member is not eligible for presentation of a flag under subsection (a) if the member has previously been presented a flag under this section or any provision of law providing for the presentation of a United States flag incident to release from active service for retirement.
• (c) The presentation of a flag under this section shall be at no cost to the recipient.