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PUBLIC LAW 85-86 1 - S E P T. 2, 1958

medicine as may be determined by the Secretary, may be credited with a minimum amount of service in an active status of three years if appointed for an assignment comparable to that of an officer in the Medical Service Corps of the Army. "To be eligible for consideration for promotion and to be eligible for promotion under this subchapter, a Reserve officer must be in an active status. '*§ 775. Selection boards; appointment "(a) Selection boards and other boards of officers appointed under this subchapter shall be appointed and convened by the Secretary or by such competent authority as the Secretary may direct. "(b) At least 50 percent of the members of any selection board ajDpointed under the provisions of this subchapter shall, to the extent practicable, be Reserve officers. All members of any selection board shall be senior in permanent grade and temporary rank to any officer being considered by that board. "(c) Selection boards shall serve for such length of time as the Secretary may prescribe, but no board shall serve longer than one year. No officer shall serve on two consecutive selection boards when the second of such boards considers smy of the officers who were considered but not recommended for promotion to the same grade by the first selection board upon which he served. "(d) Each selection board shall be composed of not less than five members which number shall constitute a quorum. Every officer who is appointed a member of a selection board will swear or affirm that he will without prejudice or partiality and, having in view both the special fitness of officers and the efficiency of the Coast Guard, perform the duties imposed on him as a member of such board. Not less than a majority of the total membership of any selection board must concur in each recommendation made by the board. "(e) Any officer eligible for consideration for promotion by any selection board shall have the right to forward through official channels a written communication inviting attention to any matter of record in the Armed Forces concerning himself which he deems important to his consideration which must arrive at a time not later than the convening of the selection board. The communication may not criticize or reflect upon the character, conduct, or motive of any officer. '^§776. Grade on entry upon active duty "Reserve officers who are hereafter ordered to active duty or active duty for training shall be so ordered in the grades held by them as Reserve officers except that the Secretary may, in his discretion, order such officers to active duty in any higher temporary grade. "Any Reserve officer recommended for promotion by a selection board who, at the time he otherwise would be promoted, is not eligible therefor because he has been removed from an active status, shall not, if returned to an active status, be placed on a recommended list for promotion until subsequently recommended for promotion by a selection board and shall not be deemed to have been considered for promotion by the selection board which last considered him prior to the time he is returned to an active status.
 * § 774. Eligibility for promotion; retention in active status
 * '§ 777. Recommendation for promotion of officers previously removed from active status

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