[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 41, Number 30 (Monday, August 1, 2005)]
[Pages 1226-1227]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13384--Assignment of Functions Relating to Original 
Appointments as Commissioned Officers and Chief Warrant Officer 
Appointments in the Armed Forces

July 27, 2005

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, including section 301 of title 
3, United States Code, it is hereby ordered as follows:
    Section 1. Assignment of Functions to the Secretary of Defense. The 
Secretary of Defense shall perform the functions of the President under 
the following provisions of title 10, United States Code:
(a)          subsection 531(a)(1); and
(b)          the second sentence of subsection 571(b).
    Sec. 2. Reassignment of Functions Assigned. The Secretary of Defense 
may not reassign the functions assigned to him by this order.
    Sec. 3. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be 
construed to limit or otherwise affect the authority of the President as 
Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States, or under 
the Constitution and laws of the United States to nominate or to make or 
terminate appointments.
    (b) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or 
benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by 
any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, 
entities, officers, employees or agents, or any other person.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 July 27, 2005.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., July 28, 
2005]

Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on July 
29.

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