PUBLIC LAW 104-106—FEB. 10, 1996 110 STAT. 291 "(i) to the headquarters staff of a United States joint task force that is part of a unified command or the United States element of the headquarters staff of a multinational force; and "(ii) with respect to which the Secretary of Defense determines that service of the officer in that assignment is equivalent to that which would be gained by the officer in a joint duty assignment. "(B) An officer may not be granted credit under this subsection unless the officer is recommended for such credit by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "(3) Credit under paragraph (1) (including a determination under paragraph (2)(A)(ii) and a recommendation under paragraph (2)(B) with respect to such credit) may be granted only on a caseby-case basis in the case of an individual officer. "(4) The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe by regulation Regulations. criteria for determining whether an officer may be granted credit under paragraph (1) with respect to service in a qualifying temporary joint task force assignment. The criteria shall apply uniformly among the armed forces and shall include the following requirements: "(A) For an officer to be credited as having completed a full tour of duty in a joint duty assignment, the length of the officer's service in the qualifying temporary joint task force assignment must meet the requirements of subsection (a) or (c). "(B) For an officer to be credited with service for purposes of determining cumulative service in joint duty assignments, the officer must serve at least 90 consecutive days in the qualifying temporary joint task force assignment. "(C) The service must be performed in support of a mission that is directed by the President or that is assigned by the President to United States forces in the joint task force involved. "(D) The joint task force must be constituted or designated by the Secretary of Defense or by the commander of a combatant command or of another force. "(E) The joint task force must conduct combat or combatrelated operations in a unified action under joint or multinational command and control. "(5) Officers for whom joint duty credit is granted pursuant to this subsection may not be taken into account for the purposes of any of the following provisions of this title: section 661(d)(1), section 662(a)(3), section 662(b), subsection (a) of this section, and paragraphs (7), (8), (9), (11), and (12) of section 667. "(6) In the case of an officer credited with having completed a full tour of duty in a joint duty assignment pursuant to this subsection, the Secretary of Defense may waive the requirement in paragraph (1)(B) of section 661(c) of this title that the tour of duty in a joint duty assignment be performed after the officer completes a program of education referred to in paragraph (1)(A) of that section. The provisions of subparagraphs (C) and (D) of section 661(c)(3) of this title shall apply to such a waiver in the same manner as to a waiver under subparagraph (A) of that section.".
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