PHS Commissioned Corps
Executive Summary
House Energy and Commerce/Health Subcommittee Chairman Waxman (D-Calif.) will hold a hearing on Feb. 19 to consider a joint resolution under which members of the Public Health Services reserve corps would be called to duty to fill vacancies left by Persian Gulf-bound medical reservists. Waxman is proposing that officers on inactive reserve, a group of 6,000, could assume for up to 180 days positions vacated by medical personnel who went to the Persian Gulf. A total of 450-500 FDAers are on active duty in the reserve corp and in the regular corp.
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