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recognition in the next higher grade, until he has completed the following minimum number of years of promotion service in grade: Grade
First lieutenant Captain Major Lieutenant colonel Colonel Brigadier general T i m e limit for consideration.
Selection.
P r o m o t i o n to first lieutenant.
Captain, major, and l i e u t e n a n t colonel. Consideration.
Minimum number of years of promotion service in that grade
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SEC. 507. A Reserve officer may not be considered by a selection board for promotion under this title more than two years, if in a grade below colonel, or more than one year, if in a grade above lieutenant colonel, before the date on which it is contemplated that he will be promoted if recommended by the selection board. SEC. 508. (a) Selection boards to consider officers for promotion shall be convened from time to time in such number, and under such regulations, as the Secretary may prescribe, (b) Except when it is considering officers under section 513 of this title and except for officers covered by section 522 of this title who may not be considered at that time, whenever a Reserve officer is being considered by a selection board for promotion, the board shall consider all Reserve officers in that officer's grade who are senior to him and whose names are not carried on a recommended list. (c) The name of each Reserve officer who is recommended for promotion by a selection board shall be placed on a recommended list for promotion, and carried thereon until the officer is promoted to the grade for which recommended or until his name is removed therefrom under another provision of this Act. The names of Reserve officers recommended by such a selection board shall be placed on the appropriate recommended list below the names of Reserve officers recommended by any prior selection board but in the same order as existed among themselves at the time of their consideration by the selection board. Except as provided in sections 513, 519, and 521 (1) of this title, no Reserve officer whose name is on a recommended list may be promoted ahead of any other officer whose name precedes his on the same recommended list. SEC. 509. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, each officer of the Air Force Reserve in an active status in the grade of second lieutenant who is found to be qualified for promotion shall be promoted to the grade of first lieutenant effective on that date upon which he completes three years of promotion service in grade. (b) A Reserve officer in the grade of second lieutenant who completes three years of promotion service in grade and who is found not qualified for promotion, shall, notwithstanding any other provision of law except section 204 or 205 of this Act, be discharged. SEC. 510. (a) Irrespective of the existence of a vacancy in the next higher grade, each Reserve officer in the grade of first lieutenant, captain, or major shall be considered for promotion sufficiently in advance of the date on which he completes four, seven, or seven years of promotion service in grade, respectively, and seven, fourteen, or twenty-one total years of service, respectively, so that, if recommended for promotion by the selection board, he may be promoted effective on the date upon which he completes that service. (b) Based upon the number of existing and anticipated vacancies in the Air Force Reserve in the grade of captain, major, or lieutenant colonel, the Secretary may direct a selection board to consider and
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