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[CITE: 10USC621]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
    CHAPTER 36--PROMOTION, SEPARATION, AND INVOLUNTARY RETIREMENT OF 
                    OFFICERS ON THE ACTIVE-DUTY LIST
 
                        SUBCHAPTER II--PROMOTIONS
 
Sec. 621. Competitive categories for promotion

    Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, the 
Secretary of each military department shall establish competitive 
categories for promotion. Each officer whose name appears on an active-
duty list shall be carried in a competitive category of officers. 
Officers in the same competitive category shall compete among themselves 
for promotion.

(Added Pub. L. 96-513, title I, Sec. 105, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2856.)
