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Eligibility for promotion.

Date of rank upon promotion.

PUBLIC LAW 77a-SEPT. 3, 1954

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(c) A Reserve officer assigned a running mate at any time subsequent to the initial assignment provided in subsection (a), (b) or (f) of this section, shall be assigned such running mate in accordance with the principle prescribed by law for the assignment of running mates of the staff corps of the regular Navy, except that whenever possible such running mate shall be the line officer on active duty on the lineal list of the Navy next junior to him or the line officer of the regular Marine Corps next junior to him, in accordance with the principle expressed in subsections (a) or (b) of this section. (d) In the application of subsections (a), (b), and (c) of this section, running mates shall be officers who by law are not restricted in the performance of duty. (e) A woman Reserve officer shall have as her running mate a woman officer of the corresponding regular component. (f) A Reserve officer who has been assigned a running mate under laws in effect on the effective date of this Act, shall continue to be considered for the purposes of this Act with that running mate, unless assigned a new running mate under the provision of subsection (c) of this section. SEC. 405, (a) A male Naval Reserve officer of any grade higher than ensign shall be in a promotion zone when his running mate is in or above a promotion zone and shall then become eligible for consideration by a selection board for promotion to the next higher grade. A woman Naval Reserve officer of any grade higher than ensign shall become eligible for consideration for promotion when her running mate becomes eligible for consideration for promotion, and shall remain eligible for consideration for promotion until transferred to the Retired Reserve or the inactive-status list or discharged under any law. An officer of the Nurse Corps Reserve of any grade higher than ensign shall be eligible for consideration for promotion when she is senior to the junior officer in the same grade on active duty on the lineal list who has been selected for promotion. (b) A male Marine Corps Reserve officer of any grade higher than second lieutenant shall be in a promotion zone when his running mate or any male Reserve officer junior to that Reserve officer is in or above a promotion zone and shall then become eligible for consideration by a selection board for promotion to the next higher grade. A woman Marine Corps Reserve officer of any grade higher than second lieutenant shall be eligible for consideration for promotion when her running mate, or any woman Reserve officer junior to that woman Reserve officer, becomes ineligible for consideration by a selection board for promotion to the next higher grade. (c) A Reserve officer in the grade of ensign or second lieutenant shall be eligible for promotion to the grade of lieutenant (junior grade) or first lieutenant, respectively, upon the completion of three years' service in grade in an active status computed from date of rank of ensign or second lieutenant. (d) The name of any officer who is otherwise eligible for consideration for selection for promotion under subsections (a) or (b) of this section, or for promotion under subsection (c) of this section, but who has failed to meet requirements for eligibility prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy, may be withheld from consideration. SEC. 406. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, the laws relating to the eligibility for promotion and the promotion of an officer of the regular component on a promotion list shall apply to an officer of the reserve component on a promotion list, except that— (1) a line officer of the Naval Reserve shall have, on promotion, the same date of rank which has been, or in due course will be, given the officer who is to be his running mate in the grade

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