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Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve Act was passed by the 63rd United States Congress and signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on December 23, 1913. The law created the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States.
Belgian Reservists leaving the Gare du Nord in Paris, 1914. The notion of a reservist has been around, in many forms, for thousands of years. In ancient times, reservist forces such as the Anglo-Saxon Fyrd and the Viking Leidangr formed the main fighting strength of most armies. It was only at the end of the 17th century that professional ...
The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA, Pub. L. 103–353, codified as amended at 38 U.S.C. §§ 4301–4335) was passed by U.S. Congress and signed into law by U.S. President Bill Clinton on October 13, 1994 to protect the civilian employment of active and reserve military personnel in the United States called to active duty.
On 23 April 1908 Congress created the Medical Reserve Corps, the official predecessor of the Army Reserve. [3] After World War I, under the National Defense Act of 1920, Congress reorganized the U.S. land forces by authorizing a Regular Army, a National Guard and an Organized Reserve (Officers Reserve Corps and Enlisted Reserve Corps) of unrestricted size, which later became the Army Reserve. [4]
Chapter 1401 — Applicability and Reserve Active-Status Lists; Chapter 1403 — Selection Boards; Chapter 1405 — Promotions; Chapter 1407 — Failure of Selection for Promotion and Involuntary Separation; Chapter 1409 — Continuation of Officers on the Reserve Active-Status List and Selective Early Removal
The United States Navy Reserve (USNR), known as the United States Naval Reserve from 1915 to 2005, [1] is the Reserve Component (RC) of the United States Navy.Members of the Navy Reserve, called reservists, are categorized as being in either the Selected Reserve (SELRES), the Training and Administration of the Reserve (TAR), the Individual Ready Reserve (IRR), or the Retired Reserve.
The Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (AROTC) program is the largest branch of ROTC, as the Army is the largest branch of the military. There are over 20,000 ROTC cadets in 273 ROTC programs at major universities throughout the United States .
The Federal Reserve Reform Act of 1977 is composed of three titles: [8] Title I: Regulation of Interest Rates Extends the authority of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to regulate interest rates on deposits and accounts in insured institutions by one year until December 15, 1978. Title II: Amendments to the Federal Reserve Act