The Obama administration has voiced opposition to a provision of the 2010 defense appropriations bill that would grant active-duty status to persons who served in the Alaska Territorial Guard during World War II. "This provision would establish a precedent of treating service performed by a state employee as active duty for purposes of the computation of retired pay," the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) said in a policy statement that addressed various aspects of the bill, H.R. 3326.