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PUBLIC LAW 86-166-AUQ. 11, 1969
[78 S T A T.
Corps described in subsection (c) and shall convene or direct such boards to recommend for continuation on the active list officers of the Regular Navy and the Regular Marine Corps described in subsections (e)-(g). Except as otherwise provided in this section, the provisions of chapter 643 of title 10, United States Code (other than section 5701(e)), concerning boards to recommend captains, commanders, colonels, or lieutenant colonels for promotion, apply to each board convened under this subsection. (b) Each board convened under subsection (a) to consider captains in the Medical Service Corps or the Nurse Corps shall consist of not less than three or more than nine officers on the active list or the retired list of the Regular Navy in the grade of captain or above, twothirds of whom are officers in the Medical Corps and one-third of whom are officers in the corps concerned. To be eligible for membership on such a board, an. officer on the active list in the Medical Service Corps or the Nurse Corps must have been recommended for continuation on the active list by an earlier board convened under this section. When there is an insufficient number of officers of the Medical Service Corps or the Nurse Corps available to serve, the Secretary shall complete the minimum required membership by appointing as members •oi the board officers or the Regular Navy in the Medical Corps. (c) Each officer of the Regular Navy or the Regular Marine Corps who has served on active duty for more than five years, who is not on a promotion list, and who will complete at least five years of service in the grade of captain in the Navy or colonel in the Marine Corjw by June 30 of the fiscal year in which a board is convened under this section is eligible for consideration for continuation on the active list by that w)ard. An officer who has once been recommended for continuation while serving? in the grade of captain or colonel by such a board may not be considered by a subsecjuent board convened under this section and is not subject to the provisions of subsection (e) or (f). For purposes of this subsection, an officer is considered as serving in the grade of captain in the Navy or colonel in the Marine Corps from the date of rank assigned him upon appointment to that grade under chapter 539 or 545 of title 10, United States Code, until the effective date of his appointment in the next higher grade under chapter 545 of title 10. United States Code. (d^ When the Secretary convenes a board under this section to consider any category of officers described in subsection (c) or (e), he shall establish a continuation zone for that category. The continuation zone for each category shall include such number of officers as the Secretary determines to be necessary to best meet the needs of the service. The senior officer in a continuation zone, for each category of officers, shall be designated by the Secretary. When the Secretary convenes a board to consider for continuation a category of officers for which a continuation board has been previously convened, the senior officer for that category shall be the officer next junior to the most junior officer of that category considered for continuation by the preceding board. The junior officer in each continuation zone shall be designated by the Secretary. I n each category,, all officers junior to the senior officer and senior to the junior officer in a continuation zone shall be in the continuation 2one for that category. Only officers who are in a continuation zone may be considered for continuation by a selection board. (e) Each officer not restricted in the performance of duty serving in the grade of captain on the active list in the line of the Regular Navy, each officer serving in the grade of captain on the active list of the Regular Navy j n the Supply Corps, the Chaplain Corps, or the Civil Engineer Corps, and each officer not restricted in the per-
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