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mendations, or the date he has the years of promotion service prescribed in subsection (a), or the date he attains the total years of service required under section 315(a), whichever is later. (e) The authorized numbers of Eeserve officers in each grade shall be temporarily increased, if necessary, to permit promotion under this section. SECOND CONSIDERATION
SEC. 311. A nonunit officer in the grade of first lieutenant, captain, or major who is considered by a selection board under section 309 or 310 and not recommended for promotion shall, if he remains in an active status, be placed on the next zone of consideration list established for consideration of officers of his branch and grade under section 309 or 310. If he is considered for promotion a second time and not recommended, he may not thereafter be considered for promotion or examined for Federal recognition. If the second consideration is under section 310, and he is recommended for promotion, he will be promoted one year after the date he would have been promoted had he been recommended by the board which first considered him. GRADE STRUCTURE VACANCY—^PROMOTION TO COLONEL A N D F E M A L E F I E L D GRADES
SEC. 312. When the Secretary determines that there are existing or anticipated vacancies within the numbers authorized pursuant to section 307(b)(2)(i) or (ii) for the grades of major in the Army Nurse Corps or Women's Medical Specialist Corps, lieutenant colonel in the Army Nurse Corps or Women's Army Corps, or colonel in any other branch, he may appoint and convene one or more selection boards to consider and recommend nonunit officers to fill the vacancies. The Secretary shall prescribe for each zone of consideration list established pursuant to section 314(a) the minimum promotion service an officer of the appropriate branch shall have to be placed thereon, and shall require that each nonunit officer with the prescribed promotion service and the total years of service required by section 315 (b) be placed thereon. The Secretary shall also prescribe the number of officers to be recommended for promotion from each list. The selection board shall recommend the prescribed number of officers deemed best qualified among those on the zone of consideration list. Upon attaining the total years of service required by section 315(a), an officer recommended for promotion under this section may be promoted at any time to fill a vacancy, but it is not mandatory that the authorized number in these grades be maintained. GRADE
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SEC. 313. When vacancies are authorized or are anticipated among nonunit officers of the Army Reserve in the grades of major general or brigadier general, the Secretary may appoint and convene a selection board to consider for promotion officers of the Army Reserve in the grade of brigadier general and colonel, respectively, who fulfill the requirements of section 306 and who meet minimum standards to be prescribed by the Secretary, and prescribe the number of officers to be recommended for promotion. The selection board shall recommend the prescribed number of officers deemed best qualified of those considered. Upon attaining the total years of service required by section 315(a), an officer recommended for promotion under this sec-
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