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Section 1
1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Never Forgotten Korean War POW Act.
Section 2
2. Recognition of entire period spent in a captured or missing-in-action status during the Korean War for receipt of combat pay Section 704(b) of the Combat Duty Pay Act of 1952 (title VII of Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1953; 66 Stat. 539) is amended by striking for not more than three months thereafter and inserting for each month thereafter. Section 704(b) of the Combat Duty Pay Act of 1952, as amended by subsection (a), applies only with respect to a former member of the uniformed services who received combat pay under such section and who is alive as of the date of the enactment of this Act. In determining the actual amount to be paid to a former member of the uniformed services covered by paragraph (1), the Secretary of Defense shall increase the amount determined under section 704(b) of the Combat Duty Pay Act of 1952, as amended by subsection (a), using an appropriate inflation adjustment.