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Executive Order 12396

Defense officer personnel management

Signed by Ronald Wilson Reagan on December 9, 1982.

No later action on file
Signed recordDecember 9, 1982

The date the President signed it.

Publication record47 FR 55897

The Federal Register edition of the order.

Later actionNo later action on file

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As signed

The complete text of the order.

Later record

What happened to this order

These notes list later amendments, revocations, replacing orders, or other Federal Register action.

Amends EO 10621, July 1, 1955; EO 11390, January 22, 1968
Revokes EO 12239, September 21, 1980
See EO 13321, December 17, 2003

The National Archives records of later actions cover January 8, 1937 to January 19, 2017.

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