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Promotion and promotion service.

Authorized number of officers.

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the first time is examined and found not qualified for Federal recognition in the next higher grade. (4) "Secretary" means the Secretary of the Air Force. (5) "Total years of service" means all periods of time that a Reserve officer— (A) has held an appointment as a commissioned officer in any of the Armed Forces of the United States, without component or in any component thereof; (B) has held an appointment as a commissioned officer in the federally recognized National Guard before June 15, 1933, or held a federally recognized commissioned status therein; and (C) has been credited with under section 201 of this Act. No period of time may be credited more than once in the computation of total years of service. SEC. 502. (a) A Reserve officer may be promoted only as provided in this title. (b) To be in an active status, a Reserve officer, other than an adjutant general or an assistant adjutant general of a State, a Territory, or the District of Columbia, must attain, in the course of any period of twelve consecutive months applicable to him, the minimum number of points prescribed by the Secretary pursuant to section 202 of this Act. However, the minimum number of points shall be prescribed before the beginning of the period for which applicable. (c)(1) For a Reserve officer who, on July 1, 1949, was a member of a reserve component of the Air Force and has not been removed from an active status since that date, computation of points shall be made for periods of twelve consecutive months beginning on July 1 of each year and ending on June 30 of the next year until he is removed from an active status. (2) For a Reserve officer who is initially appointed as a Reserve officer of the Air Force, or who is returned to an active status, after July 1, 1949, computation of points shall be made for periods of twelve consecutive months beginning on the date of his appointment or his most recent return to an active status and on each anniversary of such appointment or most recent return to an active status thereafter. SEC. 503. (a) The authorized number of Reserve officers of the Air Force in active status is two hundred thousand. This authorized strength may be exceeded to meet mobilization requirements, or to permit increases required by or resulting from the operation of any other law or this Act. The authorized number of Reserve officers of the Air Force in an active status in each of the several grades, as prescribed by the Secretary, may not be more than the following percentages of the total authorized commissioned officer strength: 1.8 per centum in the grade of colonel; 4.6 per centum in the grade of lieutenant colonel; 14 per centum in the grade of major; 32 per centum in the grade of captain, and the remainder in the grades of first lieutenant and second lieutenant, except for the number authorized in general officer grades. The authorized number of Reserve officers of the Air Force in an active status in general officer grades, exclusive of Reserve officers serving in general officer grades (1) as adjutants general or assistant adjutants general of a State, a Territory, or the District of Columbia, or (2) in the National Guard Bureau, is one hundred and fifty-seven. The numbers authorized for any grade may be exceeded by the number of vacancies existing in any higher grade. I t is not mandatory that the numbers authorized for the several grades be maintained. (b) The authorized number of Reserve officers in any grade below colonel may be temporarily increased to give effect to the promotion system prescribed in this title.

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