37 U.S.C. § 901 — Wartime pay of officer of armed force exercising command higher than his grade

In time of war, an officer^* of an armed force who is serving with troops operating against an enemy and who exercises, under assignment in orders issued by competent authority, a command above that pertaining to his grade^*, is entitled to the pay^* and allowances (not above that of pay grade O–7) appropriate to the command so exercised.