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PUBLIC LAW 86-559-JUNE 30, 1960

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(9) Section 3360(c)(1)(B) is amended to read as follows: " (B) his years of service before June 15, 1933, as a commissioned officer in the federally recognized National Guard or in a federally recognized commissioned status in the National Guard, and in the National Guard after June 14, 1933, if his service therein was continuous from the date of his Federal recognition as an officer therein to the date of his appointment in the National Guard of the United States, and". (10) Section 3362(e) is amended by adding the following new sentence at the end thereof: "Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a board that is to recommend officers for promotion whom it considers to be the best qualified may recommend only those officers whom it also considers to be fully qualified." (11) Section 3363(f) is amended by striking out the words "who is not assigned to a unit organized to serve as a unit, and" in the last sentence thereof. (12) Section 3364 is amended— (A) by amending the catchline to read as follows: "§3364. Commissioned officers: selection for promotion; order of promotion; zone of consideration list; declination of promotion"; and (B) by adding the following new subsections at the end thereof: "(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, a reserve commissioned officer who has been in an inactive status may not be considered for promotion until at least one year after the date on which he is returned to an active status. "(f) An officer of an Army Reserve unit organized to serve as a unit may decline a promotion under section 3366 or 3367 of this title if the Secretary of the Army, or an officer designated by him, approves that action as being in the best interests of the Army. " (g) An officer of the Army National Guard of the United States may decline a promotion under section 3366 or 3367 of this title if the governor or other appropriate authority of the State, Territory, Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone, or the commanding general of the District of Columbia National Guard, whichever is concerned, approves that action. " (h) If an officer declines a promotion under subsection (f) or (g), his name shall be retained on the appropriate promotion list for a period of not more than three years from the date he was selected for promotion to the grade concerned unless— "(1) in the case of an officer of the Army Reserve, he is appointed to the grade for which he was selected or his name is removed from that list under another provision of law; and "(2) in the case of an officer of the Army National Guard of the United States, he is appointed to the next higher grade to fill a vacancy in the Army National Guard and is federally recognized in that grade or his name is removed from the promotion list under another provision of law. The Secretary of the Army may, in his discretion, extend the period for which a declination is in effect in the case of any officer of the Army National Guard who is an officer of an Alaska Scout Battalion or of a unit engaged in air defense activities on a tactical site that is mider the control of the Army or the Air Force. " (i) A t the end of the period during which his name is carried on the appropriate promotion list under subsection (h), or at any earlier time if he requests the promotion, an officer of the Army Reserve whose name is retained on the promotion list under that subsection shall be promoted to the grade concerned and shall be transferred from his unit unless, upon his promotion, he fills a vacancy in that unit.

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