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PUBLIC LAW 85-861-8EPT. 2, 1958

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ADJUSTMENT OF SERVICE CREDIT FOR MEDICAL AND DENTAL OFFICERS SEC. 19. The Secretary concerned may convene boards of officers to review the records and compute the service of each officer of the Medical Corps or the Dental Corps of the Army or the Navy, and each medical or dental officer of the Air Force, appointed before May 1, 1956, including those reserve or temporary officers who were on active duty on that date, or who entered on active duty after that date, in order to adjust the service credited to each such officer to reflect the service authorized to be credited to officers appointed under the Act of April 30, 1956, chapter 223 (70 Stat. 119), or under section 3294, 3444, 5574,5578, or 8294 of title 10, United States Code. When that adjustment is made, such officers shall be given precedence for promotion purposes or advanced to a lineal position in accordance with their adjusted dates of rank, except that no officer of the Navy may be given an adjusted date of rank in the grade of captain which is earlier than July 1, 1955. All officers of the Navy with the adjusted date of rank of July 1, 1955, in the grade of captain shall retain the precedence among themselves that they held on May 1, 1956, and shall be junior to all other officers assigned that date of rank. If, as a result of readjustment of service credit under this section— (1) an officer of the Army or the Air Force is made eligible for promotion, he shall be considered for promotion by the next selection board considering officers of his grade and category; and (2) an officer of the Navy attains lineal position equivalent to an officer who is serving in the next higher grade, or who is on a promotion list to that grade, he may be promoted thereto on the recommendation of a board of officers convened under this subsection, and, except as otherwise provided in this section, may be assigned a lineal position in the nigher grade appropriate to his adjusted service credit. PROMOTION OF RESERVE COMMISSIONED OFFICERS O F THE A R M Y H O L D I N G G R A D E S ON J U L Y 1, 1955 SEC. 20. A reserve commissioned officer of the Army who, on July 1, 1965, was in a reserve grade listed in the following table may not be considered for promotion for the first time under any one of sections 3366, 3367, 3370, and 3371 of title 10, United States Code, until he is within one year of completing the service prescribed for that grade by the following table, and may not be promoted under any of those sections until he completes that service.

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First lieutenant Captain Major Lleatenant colonel and above.

Years of service computed under sec. 3360 (c) of title 10, United States Code

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