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[CITE: 10USC625]

 
                         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. 625. Authority to vacate promotions to grades of brigadier 
        general and rear admiral (lower half)
        
    (a) The President may vacate the promotion to the grade of brigadier 
general or rear admiral (lower half) of an officer who has served less 
than 18 months in that grade after promotion to that grade under this 
chapter.
    (b) An officer of the Army, Air Force, or Marine Corps whose 
promotion is vacated under this section holds the regular grade of 
colonel, if he is a regular officer, or the reserve grade of colonel, if 
he is a reserve officer. An officer of the Navy whose promotion is 
vacated under this section holds the regular grade of captain, if he is 
a regular officer, or the reserve grade of captain, if he is a reserve 
officer.
    (c) The position on the active-duty list of an officer whose 
promotion is vacated under this section is the position he would have 
held had he not been promoted to the grade of brigadier general or rear 
admiral (lower half).

(Added Pub. L. 96-513, title I, Sec. 105, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2858; 
amended Pub. L. 97-86, title IV, Sec. 405(b)(1), (4)(A), Dec. 1, 1981, 
95 Stat. 1105; Pub. L. 99-145, title V, Sec. 514(b)(1), (4)(A), Nov. 8, 
1985, 99 Stat. 628.)


                               Amendments

    1985--Pub. L. 99-145 substituted ``rear admiral (lower half)'' for 
``commodore'' in section catchline and subsecs. (a) and (c).
    1981--Pub. L. 97-86 substituted ``commodore'' for ``commodore 
admiral'' in section catchline and subsecs. (a) and (c).


                    Effective Date of 1981 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 97-86 effective Sept. 15, 1981, see section 
405(f) of Pub. L. 97-86, set out as a note under section 101 of this 
title.
