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PUBLIC LAW 773-SEPT. 3, 1954
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sections 309, 310, 312, or 313 until he has completed the following total years of service:
Total years of service
Grade
First lieutenant 6 Captain 12 Major 17 Lieutenant colonel or higher 19 (b) Such officer may not be considered by a selection board for such promotion until he is within one year of completing the foregoing total years of service. (c) A Reserve officer who becomes a nonunit officer upon transfer from the National Guard of the United States or upon release from a unit in the Army Reserve may not be promoted thereafter for tin". first time until he has completed the total years of service prescribed in subsection (a). SUBTITLE C — U N F T OFFICERS, ARMY RESERVE PROMOTION TO FIRST LIEUTENANT
SEC. 316. Each unit officer of the Army Reserve in the grade of second lieutenant found by the Secretary or any officer acting under his discretion to be qualified for promotion shall be promoted to the grade of first lieutenant effective on the date he has three years of promotion service, irrespective of the existence of a vacancy in such grade. UNIT VACANCY—PROMOTION TO CAPTAIN, MAJOR, LIEUTENANT COLONEL, AND COLONEL SPECIAL PROMOTION OF SECOND LIEUTENANTS AND FIRST LIEUTENANTS
SEC. 317. (a) The Secretary may appoint and convene a selection board to consider and recommend officers of a unit of the Army Reserve for promotion to fill a vacancy in that unit within the numbers authorized for that unit pursuant to section 307(a) in the grade of captain, major, lieutenant colonel, or colonel. (b) The convening officer under subsection (a) shall place the name of each officer assigned to the unit who is eligible under sections 303 (c) and 306 (b) and by reason of geographical availability for consideration for promotion to fill the vacancy, on a zone of consideration list and refer it to the selection board for consideration. The convening officer may also place on such list for consideration for promotion to the next higher grade the name of any officer in the grade of second lieutenant or first lieutenant who has served creditably in a unit vacancy prescribed for a captain for twelve months or more, without regard to the requirements of section 306, provided the officer has not previously been promoted under this provision. The selection board shall recommend the officer deemed best qualified to fill the vacancy. An officer recommended by the board may be immediately promoted to fill the unit vacancy for which considered. UNIT VACANCY—PROMOTION TO BRIGADIER GENERAL AND MAJOR GENERAL
SEC. 318. (a) Officers in the Army Reserve may be promoted to general officer grades of brigadier general and major general to fill vacancies in these grades in Army Reserve units which have attained strengths prescribed by the Secretary. (b) At any time within one year after an officer has been assigned the duties of a general officer of the next higher ^rade in an Army Reserve unit he shall be evaluated by his superior officer. If he determines that the officer has demonstrated his fitness for that position
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