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Code · BILL · 117th Congress · H.R. 7900 (Placed on Calendar Senate) — To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2023 for military activities of the Department of Defense and for militar... · Sec. 502

Sec. 502. Authorized strength after December 31, 2022: general officers and flag officers on active duty

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Section 526a of title 10, United States Code, is amended— in subsection (a)— in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking and Marine Corps and inserting Marine Corps, and Space Force ; in paragraph (1), by striking 220 and inserting 218 ; in paragraph (2), by striking 151 and inserting 149 ; in paragraph (3), by striking 187 and inserting 170 ; and by adding at the end the following new paragraph: For the Space Force, 21. ; and in subsection (b)(2), by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: For the Space Force, 6. .
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