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10 USC 5581.

10 USC 5581.

PUBLIC LAW 85-861-SEPT. 2, 1958

[72 S T A T.

" (b) The recommendation of a selection board with respect to any woman line officer of the Naval Reserve or any woman officer of the Marine Corps Keserve shall be based on her comparative titness for the duties to which women officers are normally assigned in the line of the Navy or in the Marine Corps. The recommendation of a selection board with respect to any woman officer of the Naval Reserve in a staff corps, other than an officer in the Nurse Corps or an officer appointed under section 5581 of this title, shall be based on her comparative titness for the duties to which women officers are normally assigned in her statf corps. "(c) Administrative staff duty, duty in aviation, or duty in any technical specialty performed by an officer of the Marine Corps Reserve shall be given weight by the selection board in determining his fitness for promotion equal to that given line duty equally well performed. " (d) The status of having once failed of selection for promotion to a grade does not prejudice an officer with respect to his qualitications, his fitness for the naval service, or his eligibility for selection for promotion to that grade by the next succeeding selection board. "(e) The total number of officers that may be recommended for promotion to any grade may not exceed the number furnished the board concerned by the Secretary of the Navy. " (f) An officer may not be recommended for promotion unless he receives the recommendation of a majority of the total membership of the board concerned. " (a) Each board convened under this chapter shall submit a report in writing, signed by all the acting members thereof, and shall certify in its report that the board has carefully considered the case of each officer whose name was furnished to it under section 5895 of this title. " (b) A board convened under this chapter that recommends officers in any of the following categories for promotion shall certify in its report that, in the opinion of a majority of the members of the board, the officers recommended are selected as best fitted to assume the duties of the next higher grade: "(1) Male officers in the line of the Naval Reserve. " (2) Male officers of the Marine Corps Reserve. "(3) Male officers of the Naval Reserve in the Supply Corps. "(4) Male officers of the Naval Reserve in the Civil Engineer Corps. "(5) Officers of the Naval Reserve in the Nurse Corps in the grade of lieutenant commander or above; "(6) Women officers in the line or staff corps of the Naval Reserve in the grade of lieutenant or above, other than officers in the Nurse Corps and officers appointed under section 5581 of this title. "(7) "Women officers of the Marine Corps Reserve in the grade of captain or above. " (8) Officers of the Naval Reserve in any staff corps in the grade of lieutenant commander or above. "(c) A board convened under this chapter that recommends officers in any of the following categories for promotion shall certify in its report that, in the opinion of a majority of the members of the board, the officers recommended are selected as fitted to assume the duties of the next higher grade: "(1) Male officers of the Naval Reserve, and women officers appointed under section 5581 of this title, in the grade of lieutenant or lieutenant (junior grade) in the Medical Corps, the Chaplain Corps, the Dental Corps, or the Medical Service Corps.
 * '§ 5897. Selection boards: reports; certification required

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