62 STAT.] 80TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 449-JUNE 12, 1948 existing or hereafter enacted relating to the assignment of running mates to male staff officers of the Regular Navy. (f) A woman staff officer of the Regular Navy shall become eligible for consideration for recommendation for promotion to the next higher grade when the President approves the report of a line selec- tion board in which the running mate of such staff officer or a woman line officer junior to such running mate is recommended for promotion to the next higher grade above that held by the staff officer. (g) The recommendations of the selection boards in the cases of women officers of the line of the Regular Navy shall be based upon their comparative fitness for the duties to which they are assigned in the line of the Regular Navy. (h) The recommendations of the selection boards in the cases of women officers of each of the respective staff corps of the Regular Navy shall be based upon their comparative fitness for the duties to which they are assigned in each of the respective staff corps of the Regular Navy. (i) The number to be furnished the appropriate selection board in respect to the promotion of women officers of the line of the Regular Navy to the grades of commander and lieutenant commander shall be determined by the Secretary of the Navy as of the date of the convening of the board and shall be equal to the number of vacancies existing for such officers in the grade concerned plus the estimated number of such vacancies which will occur during the ensuing twelve-month period and minus the number of such officers then on the promotion list. (j) The number to be furnished the appropriate selection board in respect to the promotion of women line officers of the Regular Navy to the grade of lieutenant shall be determined by the Secretary of the Navy as of the date of the convening of the board and shall be equal to the number of women line officers of the Regular Navy of the grade of lieutenant (junior grade) who are eligible for consideration by such board. The board shall recommend such of the eligible officers who, in the opinion of at least two-thirds of the members of the board, are qualified for promotion and shall so certify in its report. Women line officers recommended for promotion to the grade of lieutenant in the approved report of a board on selection shall become eligible for promotion to that grade on July 1 following the date of approval of the report of the board and, upon promotion, shall be entitled to the pay and allowances of the higher grade from the date of their eligi- bility for promotion. (k) Each selection board appointed to recommend women staff offi- cers of the Regular Navy for promotion to the grade of commander or lieutenant commander shall recommend for promotion to the grade concerned in the corps for which it was appointed such eligible offcers in number not to exceed the number furnished it by the Secretary of the Navy, who, in the opinion of at least two-thirds of the members of the board, are best fitted to assume the duties of the next higher grade. The number furnished the appropriate board for each such grade in each corps shall be a fraction of the number of women officers in the next lower grade of the corps concerned who in that fiscal year first become eligible for consideration for recommendation for promo- tion to the next higher grade; the numerator of such fraction shall be a number equal to the total number of women line officers recommended for promotion to the grade concerned in the approved report of the immediately preceding line selection board; the denominator shall be a number equal to the number of women line officers eligible in the fiscal year concerned for consideration for recommendation for promotion to the grade concerned, exclusive of those who were senior to the junior such officer recommended for promotion to the grade concerned in the 365 Staff officers. Consideration for promotion. Basis of recommen. dations. Number in respect to promotion.
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