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 378 70A Stat. 189.

PUBLIC LAW 85-155-AUG. 21, 1957

[71 S T A T.

(14) Section 3304 is amended to read as follows: "§ 3304. Commissioned officers; Army Nurse Corps and Army Medical Specialist Corps: promotion to lieutenant colonel or colonel " (a) Having in view the number of actual and anticipated vacancies in the promotion lists of the Army Nurse Corps or the Army Medical Specialist Corps in the regular grade of lieutenant colonel and the number of officers desired m that grade on the applicable promotion list, the Secretary of the Army shall furnish to selection boards lists of all promotion-list officers in the regular grade of major who have completed at least 21 years of service with which they are entitled to be credited for promotion and all promotion-list officers in that grade whose names appear on that promotion list above the name of any officer who has completed that service, in the order in which their names appear on that promotion list. The Secretary may also furnish to the boards the names of promotion-list officers in the regular grade of major who have not completed 21 years of service creditable for )romotion, in the order in which their names appear on that promotion ist. He shall direct the boards to recommend for promotion to the grade of lieutenant colonel a number prescribed by him, but not in excess of the number of promotions anticipated to be made to that grade within the next two years. The Secretary may not furnish the name of any officer to a board unless he furnishes to it the names of all officers above that officer on that promotion list who are not on a recommended list for promotion to that regular grade. The board shall recommend the prescribed number of those officers whom it considers to be the best qualified. "(b) Having in view the number of actual and anticipated vacancies in the promotion lists of the Army Nurse Corps or the Army Medical Specialist Corps in the regular grade of colonel and the number of officers desired in that grade on the applicable promotion list, the Secretary of the Army shall furnish to selection boards lists of all promotion-list officers m the regular grade of lieutenant colonel (except those officers who would not be eligible for nomination by reason of subsection (d)) in the order in which their names appear on that promotion list. He shall direct the boards to recommend for promotion to the grade of colonel a number prescribed by him but not in excess of the number of promotions anticipated to be made to that grade within the next two years. The list furnished may not contain the name of any officer who is on a recommended list for promotion to that regular grade. The board shall recommend the prescribed number of those officers whom it considers to be best qualified. "(c) The names of officers recommended for promotion to the regular grade of lieutenant colonel or colonel shall be entered at the foot of, and carried on, the appropriate permanent recommended list for promotion to those grades in the same order among themselves as on the applicable promotion list. Officers shall be promoted in that order when there is a vacancy in those grades for that list. A vacancy in those grades may be filled at any time. I t is not mandatory that the authorized numbers be maintained in the regular grades of lieutenant colonel or colonel on a promotion list. " (d) An officer must complete at least one year of service in the regular grade of lieutenant colonel before being nominated for promotion to the regular grade of colonel.".

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