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333 (B) the denominator is the number of lieutenants (junior grade) in the stalff corps concerned who have dates of rank in the same calendar year as such staff corps officer and who are to have running mates assigned to them under this section. However, if in any year there is only one lieutenant (junior grade) in any corps to have a running mate assigned to him under this section, the officer to be so assigned is the eligible line officer whose numerical position is nearest the middle of the line lieutenants (junior grade) on active duty having dates of rank in the prescribed calendar year. (c) I n each staff corps in which officers may be originally appointed either in the grade of ensign or in that of lieutenant (junior grade), all the lieutenants (junior grade) who are to have running mates assigned to them under this section at any one time are regarded, for the purpose of this section, as having lineal rank among themselves in the order recommended in the approved report of a board of officers of the corps concerned. Such boards shall be convened as soon as practicable after the end of each calendar year, and their recommendations, when approved by the Secretary of the Navy, are conclusive. (d) In each staff corps in which appointments in the grade of ensign are not authorized, all the lieutenants (junior grade) who are to have running mates assigned to them under this section at any one time are regarded, for the purposes of this section, as having lineal rank among themselves in the chronological order of their dates of rank. § 5653. Regular Navy: lieutenants and above The Secretary of the Navy shall assign a running mate to each officer whose original appointment to the active list of the Navy in a staff corps is in the grade of lieutenant or above. Except as provided in section 5654 of this title, the officer to be assigned as the running mate may be any eligible line officer on active duty having the same date of rank as the staff corps officer concerned in the highest grade, permanent or temporary, to which the staff corps officer is appointed. If no eligible line officer serving on active duty in that grade has the same date of rank as the staff corps officer, the officier to be assigned as his running mate is the junior eligible line officer on active duty having the next earlier date of rank in that grade. § 5654. Regular Navy: transfers from line When an officer on the active list in the line of the Navy is transferred to a staff corps in the grade of lieutenant (junior grade) or above, he shall have assigned to him as his running mate the eligible line officer on active duty who was next senior to him at the time of his transfer. § 5655. Naval Reserve: officers ordered to active duty When an officer of the Naval Reserve in a staff corps is ordered to active duty and placed on a lineal list, the Secretary of the Navy shall assign to him as his running mate an eligible line officer serving on active duty in the same grade and appropriate to his lineal position.
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