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615 (b) The years of service with which a deferred officer is entitled to be credited for promotion purposes shall be reduced so that one year after the date on which he would have been promoted had he been recommended by a selection beard he will not have more than 7» 14, or 21 years of service, if in the grade of first lieutenant, captain, or major, as the case may be. (c) A deferred officer shall be considered again by the next selection board considering officers of his grade and promotion list. If recommended by this board, his name shall be placed on the applicable reconamended list with the other officers recommended by the board, in the same order among themselves as on the promotion list, but below officers placed on mat list by an earlier board. If a deferred officer is promcied upon the recommendation of the next board considering officers of his grade, his first failure does not count as a failure of selection when he is thereafter considered for promotion to another regular grade. (d) A deferred officer who is not recommended by the next selection board considering officers of his grade and promotion list shall— (1) if he is eligible, be retired under section 8913 of this title; (2) if he is not eligible for retirement under section 8913 of this title, but is eligible for retirement under any other provision of law, be retired under that law on the date when he would have been retired under section 8913 of this title if he were eligible; or (3) if he is not eligible for retirement under section 8913 of this title or any other provision of law, be honorably discharged on the date he would have been retired under section 8913 of this title if he were eligible, with severance pay computed by multiplying his years of service, but not mere than 12. ccmputed under section 8927(a) of this title, by two months' basic pay of the grade in which he is serving on the date of his discharge. (e) For the purposes of subsection (d)(3), a part of a year that is six months or more is counted as a whole year, and a part of a year that is less than six months is disregarded. § 8304. Commissioned officers; Air Force nurses and women medical specialists: promotion to first lieutenant, captain, major, lieutenant colonel, or colonel (a) Commissioned officers of the Regular Air Force designated as Air Force nurses and women medical specialists shall be promoted to the regular grade of first lieutenant upon completing the service prescribed for promotion to that grade under section 8298 of this title. (b) Commissioned officers of the Regular Air Force designated as Air Force nurses and women medical specialists shall be promoted to the regular grade of captain or eliminated from the active list in the manner prescribed in sections 8299, 8300, and 8303 of this title. (c) Under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Air Force, commissioned officers of the Regular Air Force designated as Air Force nurses and women medical specialists shall be promoted to the regular grades of major, lieutenant colonel, or colonel, by selection, to ml vacancies in those grades.
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