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PUBLIC LAW 773-SEPT. 3, 1954

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mend a number prescribed by him for promotion to the grade concerned. Each list furnished shall include— (1) the name of the senior officer in the grade of brigadier general or colonel whose name is not on a recommended list for promotion; and • (2) the names of such additional officers as the Secretary may prescribe, in the order of their seniority. To insure that the Air Force Eeserve will have an adequate number of general officers with experience qualifying them for active service, the Secretary may direct that a specified number of the officers to be recommended for promotion to that grade have experience qualifying them for active service in specified positions, specialties or categories. The selection board shall recommend for promotion to the grade concerned the prescribed number, including any prescribed number with special qualifying experience. The officers recommended shall be those who in the opinion of the board are the best qualified of the officers named for consideration. (b) An officer recommended for promotion under this section may be promoted onlv to fill a vacancy in the next higher grade. (c) When a Reserve officer who is appointed to the grade of major general or brigadier general to fill a vacancy under this section, or any other provision of law, ceases to occupy that position, he shall, within thirty days thereafter, unless assigned to fill a comparable position of the same or higher grade, as may be determined by the Secretary— (1) be transferred in grade to the inactive status list if qualified, or if qualified and if he applies therefor, to the Retired Reserve; (2) be discharged and, if qualified and upon his application, be appointed a Reserve officer in the grade held by him as a Reserve officer before his appointment in a general officer grade, and be credited with the amount of promotion service in the grade in which appointed equal to the amount of promotion service with which he has been credited in that grade and in any higher grade; or (3) be discharged, if not transferred under clause (1) of this subsection, or appointed under clause (2) of this subsection. i<tenr°OT^iejectiln ^'^^' ^^^- i^) ^ Rescrvc officer who is recommended for promotion by Senate. Under this title and is not promoted because the President declines to appoint him in the next higher grade, or because the Senate refuses to consent to his appointment after he has been nominated by the President for appointment in a general officer grade— (1) shall continue to be eligible for consideration for promotion as if he had not been considered for that grade by the selection board which recommended him; (2) shall be again considered for promotion by the next appropriate selection board; (3) shall, if recommended for promotion by such selection board, have his name placed on the appropriate recommended list; and (4) shall, if promoted, be credited with the same amount of promotion service in the higher grade as he would have had if promoted as the result of the earlier selection. (b) A Reserve officer in the grade of first lieutenant, captain, or major, who is not promoted because the President declines to appoint him in the next higher grade, and who is not promoted thereafter because— (1) he is considered by a selection board but is not recommended for promotion; or

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