§8365. Commissioned officers: promotion to first lieutenant
(a) An officer of the Air Force Reserve in an active status in the reserve grade of second lieutenant shall, if he is found qualified for promotion, be promoted to the reserve grade of first lieutenant effective on the date on which he completes three years of service, computed under section 8360(e) of this title, in the reserve grade of second lieutenant.
(b) Whenever the Secretary of the Air Force determines that there are vacancies in the reserve grade of first lieutenant, officers in the reserve grade of second lieutenant who have not completed three years of service, computed under section 8360(e) of this title, in that grade, may be promoted to the reserve grade of first lieutenant under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary.
(c) An officer of the Air National Guard of the United States in the reserve grade of second lieutenant who is appointed in the grade of first lieutenant by the governor or other appropriate authority of the jurisdiction concerned to fill a vacancy in the Air National Guard shall be extended Federal recognition in the grade of first lieutenant, without the examination prescribed in section 307 of title 32, and shall be promoted to that reserve grade, effective on the date on which he completes three years of service, computed under section 8360(e) of this title, in the reserve grade of second lieutenant.
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Repeal of Section
Section repealed effective Oct. 1, 1996, see note set out preceding section 8351 of this title.
Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
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8365(a) 8365(b) 8365(c) |
50:1339(a). 50:1339(c). 50:1350 (less (b)). |
Sept. 3, 1954, ch. 1257 §§509 (less (b)), 520 (less (b)), |
In subsection (a), the words "Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c) of this section" are omitted as unnecessary since the subsections referred to are not in fact exceptions to 50:1339(a).
In subsection (c), the word "authorized" is omitted as surplusage. The words "or promoted to" are omitted as covered by the words "appointed in".
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 123, 8360 of this title.