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[CITE: 10USC630]

 
                         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 III--FAILURE OF SELECTION FOR PROMOTION AND RETIREMENT FOR 
                            YEARS OF SERVICE
 
Sec. 630. Discharge of regular commissioned officers with less 
        then five years of active commissioned service or found not 
        qualified for promotion for first lieutenant or lieutenant 
        (junior grade)
        
    The Secretary of the military department concerned, under 
regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense--
        (1) may discharge any regular officer on the active-duty list 
    who--
            (A) has less than five years of active commissioned service; 
        or
            (B) is serving in the grade of second lieutenant or ensign 
        and has been found not qualified for promotion to the regular 
        grade of first lieutenant or lieutenant (junior grade); and

        (2) shall, unless the officer has been promoted, discharge any 
    officer described in clause (1)(B) at the end of the 18-month period 
    beginning on the date on which the officer is first found not 
    qualified for promotion.

(Added Pub. L. 96-513, title I, Sec. 105, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2861; 
amended Pub. L. 98-525, title XIV, Sec. 1405(11), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 
Stat. 2622.)


                               Amendments

    1984--Par. (2). Pub. L. 98-525 substituted ``18-month'' for 
``eighteen-month''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1174 of this title.
