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P l a c e m e n t on list.

Savings p r o v i sion. Normal p r o m o tion. Additional p r o m o t i o n - l i s t service.

61 Stat. 890.

Specialists.

10 USC 50 I-50 6 e note.

Mandatory c o n • sideration. 61 Stat. 894.

61 Stat. 89 ^

61 Stat. 896.

61 Stat. 896. Regular l i s t. Additional service.

PUBLIC LAW 737-JULY 20, 1956

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(4) For persons with at least fourteen, but less than twenty-one, years of service: Major. (5) For persons with at least twenty-one years of service: Lieutenant colonel. The name of each person appointed under this title shall be placed on the applicable promotion list immediately below the junior officer of the same grade having the same or next longer service for promotion purposes. SEC. 205. This title does not terminate the appointment of any officer of the Regular Air Force. SEC. 206. The promotion to a higher regular grade of any officer of the Regular Air Force, otherwise eligible for promotion, may not be withheld because of an appointment under this title. SEC. 207. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law each officer of the Regular Air Force on the date of enactment of this title who was appointed therein under the provisions of section 506 (c) of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947 and whose active commissioned service in the Armed Forces is greater than that credited to him under that section (10 U.S.C. 506c (c)) at the time of his appointment, plus his active commissioned service after that appointment, shall be credited, for the purposes set forth in section 203(a) of this title, with the total amount of his active commissioned service in the Armed Forces performed after December 6, 1941, and after becoming twenty-one years of age, and which has not been previously credited to him. (b) The years service credited, for the purpose of determining grade, position on a promotion list, seniority in regular grade, and eligibility for promotion, to each officer of the Regular Air Force, who is designated as a judge advocate, veterinary officer, or chaplain, and who was appointed under the Act of December 28, 1945 (59 Stat. 663), may be increased, but not by more than three years, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Air Force. (c) Each officer who, as a result of being credited with service under this section, becomes eligible for mandatory consideration for promotion under section 509 of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947 (10 U, S. C. 559c) shall be considered by a selection board convened for that purpose in the manner provided in section 507 of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947 (10 U.S.C. 559a). If he is recommended for promotion by that board, he shall be placed on the applicable promotion list immediately below the junior officer on that list having the same or next longer service for promotion purposes and shall be given a date of rank accordingly. If he is not recommended for promotion by that board, he is a deferred officer. However, such an officer may not, because of this failure of recommendation, have his years of service reduced under section 509(g) of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947 (10 U.S.C. 559c), and he shall be considered by the next regularly convened selection board considering officers of his grade and category. If he is recommended for promotion by that board, his years of service for promotion purposes shall be reduced so that he will be junior by at least one day to the junior officer who was considered and recommended for promotion by the selection board which failed to recommend him for promotion, and who has the same or next longer period of service. If he is not recommended by that selection board, he shall be treated as provided in the last sentence of section 509(h) of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947 (10 U.S.C. 559c (h)). SEC. 208. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the years' service credited to an officer of the Regular Air Force on the date of enactment of this title for the purposes set forth in section 203 (a) of this title, may be increased, but not by more than two years,

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