...student aviators and qualified aircraft pilots of the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, the number of officers of any of the services mentioned in the title of this Act detailed to duty involving flying shall not at any one time exceed one-half of 1 per centum of the...

...1942, C6 Stat. 1037, to provide that the active duty pay of officers should credit for pay purposes "full time for all periods during which they have...of the services mentioned in the title of this Act, • • *." Under this provision, plaintiff's active duty pay was computed not only on the basis of...

...years' service. Under section 1 of the Pay Readjustment Act, which provides that officers on active duty "shall be credited with full time for all periods...during which they have held commissions as officers * * *," he was entitled to receive pay computed at the rate of 75 percent of such active duty pay....

...* * * since June 3, 1916." This act was later amended, 56 Stat. 1037, to give full time for service in the "Organized Militia prior to July 1, 1916, or in the National Guard * * *." The struggle between local control and centralized authority in government is as old as history....

...persons, in addition to the time required to be credited by the section under which they are paid, shall be credited with full time for all periods during which they were enlisted or held commissions as officers or held appointments as warrant officers or Army field...

...Paragraph 4, section 15, of the Pay Readjustment Act of 1942, supra, reads : The retired pay of any officer of any of the services mentioned in the title of this Act [ Army? Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Public Health Service] who...

...three years' service, such officers shall be credited with full time for all periods during \vhich they have held commissions as officers of any of the...July 1, 1916, or in the National Guard, or in the Naval Militia, or in the National Naval Volunteers, or in the Naval Reserve Force or Marine Corps Reserve...

...student aviators and qualified aircraft pilots of the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, the number of officers of any of the services mentioned in the title of this act detailed to duty involving flying shall not at any one time, exceed one-half of 1 per centum of the...

...respectively. In computing the increase of pay for each period of three years' service, such officers shall be credited with full time for all periods during which they have received Federal pay, other than armory drill pay, as officers of the permanent or reserve forces of...

...amended.] That officers of the National Guard receiving Federal pay, except for armory drill, and reserve officers of any of the services mentioned in the title of this Act while on active duty shall receive the allowances herein prescribed for officers of the regular services...