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PUBLIC LAW 7 7 3 - S E P T. 3, 1954

service that such Keserve officer shall be deemed to have shall not be less than the actual number of years he has served in commissioned officer status above the grade of commissioned warrant officer. (b) A Keserve officer who is eliminated from an active status under this section— (1) shall be afforded an opportunity to request transfer to the Retired Reserve, if qualified; and (2) if qualified, and he elects transfer to the Retired Reserve, shall be so transferred; or (3) if not transferred to the Retired Reserve under (1) and (2) above, he shall be transferred to the Inactive Status List or discharged in the discretion of the Secretary. SEC. 612. The President may remove the name of any officer from the promotion list. An officer whose name is so removed from the promotion list, or one whose appointment to flag rank is rejected by the Senate, shall continue to be eligible for consideration for recommendation for promotion. The next ensuing selection board may recommend the officer concerned for promotion, and thereupon, with the approval of the President, the name of such officer shall be replaced on the promotion list, without prejudice by reason of its having been temporarily removed therefrom, and when promoted such officer shall take the same rank and date of rank that he would have had had his name not been so removed. If such officer is not so recommended by such next ensuing selection board or if the President shall again remove his name from the promotion list or if the Senate shall again reject his appointment, he shall be held for all purposes to have twice failed of selection for promotion. SEC. 613. (a) A Reserve officer, if otherwise qualified, shall be transferred to the Retired Reserve on the date upon which he becomes sixty-two years of age, except that a Reserve officer initial!}^ appointed prior to January 1, 1953, at such age that completion of twenty years of satisfactory Federal service for retirement purposes cannot be accomplished by age sixty-two may be retained in an active status not later than the date upon which he becomes sixty-four years of age. (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the Secretary may authorize such classes or categories of Reserve flag officers as he may designate to be retained in an active status not later than the date on which the officer concerned becomes sixty-four years of age. (c) Except as provided in subsections (a) and (b) of this section, a Reserve officer shall, unless transferred to the Retired Reserve, be discharged effective upon the date he reaches sixty-two years of age. SEC. 614. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, if a Reserve officer is promoted when his or her running mate in the Regular Coast Guard is promoted and such promotion of the Regular running mate is on a temporary basis, the promotion of the Reserve officer concerned shall be on a temporary basis, and if subsequently the Regular running mate is reverted to a lower grade (for reasons other than disciplinary or for incompetence or at his own request), the Reserve officer shall likewise revert to the same lower grade in the same manner as his running mate in the Regular service and take corresponding precedence. (b) An officer of the Reserve shall be promoted for temporary service or promoted permanently dependent upon the character of the promotion extended to his running mate. Subject to satisfactory service, under such appointment for temporary service, the appointment of the officer of the Reserve will be made permanent when that of his running mate is made permanent or would have been made permanent if his temporary service in the higher grade was found to have been satisfactory.

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Removal by President or rejection by Senate.

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