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(a)The Office of Personnel Management shall prescribe regulations for the release of competing employees in a reduction in force which give due effect to—
(1)tenure of employment;
(2)military preference, subject to section 3501(a)(3) of this title;
(3)length of service; and
(4)efficiency or performance ratings.
(A)who is not a retired member of a uniformed service is entitled to credit for the total length of time in active service in the armed forces;
(B)who is a retired member of a uniformed service is entitled to credit for—
(i)the length of time in active service in the armed forces during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized; or
(ii)the total length of time in active service in the armed forces if he is included under section 3501(a)(3)(A), (B), or (C) of this title; and
(C)is entitled to credit for—
(i)service rendered as an employee of a county committee established pursuant to section 8(b) of the Soil Conservation and Allotment Act or of a committee or association of producers described in section 10(b) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act; and
(ii)service rendered as an employee described in section 2105(c) if such employee moves or has moved, on or after January 1, 1966, without a break in service of more than 3 days, from a position in a nonappropriated fund instrumentality of the Department of Defense or the Coast Guard to a position in the Department of Defense or the Coast Guard, respectively, that is not described in section 2105(c).
In computing length of service, a competing employee—
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