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PUBLIC LAW 85-861-SEPT. 2, 1958

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2 and 3 of the following table that, if recommended, he may be promoted effective on the date on which he will complete that service. 'Column 1

Current reserve grade

Column 2

Column 3

Service com- Service computed under puted under sec. 8360 (e) subsec. (e) of this title

First lieutenant. Captain Major

32 USC 307.

"(b) Having in view the number of actual and anticipated vacancies in the Air Force Reserve in the reserve grade of captain, major, or lieutenant colonel, the Secretary of the Air Force may direct a selection board to consider and recommend officers for promotion to those grades. The names of the officers to be considered shall include— "(1) the name of the senior officer of the Air Force Reserve in the reserve grade of first lieutenant, captain, or major, as the case may be, whose name is not on a recommended list; "(2) the names of such additional officers of the Air Force Reserve in those reserve grades, in order of seniority, as the Secretary may prescribe; and "(3) the names of those officers of the Air National Guard of the United States who must be considered at that time under subsection (a). "(c) Each officer of the Air National Guard of the United States who is recommended by a selection board for promotion to the reserve grade of captain, major, or lieutenant colonel, and who, before the date on which he would be promoted under subsection (d), is appointed in the next higher grade to fill a vacancy in the Air National Guard, shall be extended Federal recognition in that grade, without f}^Q examination prescribed in section 307 of title 32, and shall be promoted to that reserve grade effective on the date on which he is appointed in that grade in the Air National Guard. If he is not so appointed in the next higher grade in the Air National Guard, he shall, effective as of the date on which he must be promoted under subsection (d), have his Federal recognition terminated, be transferred to the Air Force Reserve, and be promoted. " (d) An officer whose reserve grade is first lieutenant, captain, or major and whose name is on a recommended list may be promoted at any time to fill a vacancy, and shall be promoted, without regard to the existence of a vacancy, on the date on which he completes the service prescribed in subsection (a). "(e) For the purpose of column 3 of subsection (a), an officer's years of service are computed by adding— " (1) all service as a commissioned officer of any armed force; "(2) all service as a commissioned officer in the federally recognized National Guard before June 15, 1933, or in a federally recognized commissioned status therein; and "(3) all service credited to him under section 8353 of this title. No service may be counted more than once. " (f) This section does not apply to the promotion to a grade above captain of female reserve officers who are designated as Air Force nurses or medical specialists, or to the promotion to a grade above major of any female reserve officer who is not designated under section 8067 of this title or appointed in the Air Force with a view to designation under that section.

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