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[CITE: 10USC645]

 
                         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 V--ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO PROMOTION, SEPARATION, 
                             AND RETIREMENT
 
Sec. 645. Definitions

    In this chapter:
        (1) The term ``promotion zone'' means a promotion eligibility 
    category consisting of the officers on an active-duty list in the 
    same grade and competitive category--
            (A) who--
                (i) in the case of officers in grades below colonel, for 
            officers of the Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps, or 
            captain, for officers of the Navy, have neither (I) failed 
            of selection for promotion to the next higher grade, nor 
            (II) been removed from a list of officers recommended for 
            promotion to that grade (other than after having been placed 
            on that list after a selection from below the promotion 
            zone); or
                (ii) in the case of officers in the grade of colonel or 
            brigadier general, for officers of the Army, Air Force, and 
            Marine Corps, or captain or rear admiral (lower half), for 
            officers of the Navy, have neither (I) not been recommended 
            for promotion to the next higher grade when considered in 
            the promotion zone, nor (II) been removed from a list of 
            officers recommended for promotion to that grade (other than 
            after having been placed on that list after a selection from 
            below the promotion zone); and

            (B) are senior to the officer designated by the Secretary of 
        the military department concerned to be the junior officer in 
        the promotion zone eligible for consideration for promotion to 
        the next higher grade.

        (2) The term ``officers above the promotion zone'' means a group 
    of officers on an active-duty list in the same grade and competitive 
    category who--
            (A) are eligible for consideration for promotion to the next 
        higher grade;
            (B) are in the same grade as those officers in the promotion 
        zone for that competitive category; and
            (C) are senior to the senior officer in the promotion zone 
        for that competitive category.

        (3) The term ``officers below the promotion zone'' means a group 
    of officers on the active-duty list in the same grade and 
    competitive category who--
            (A) are eligible for consideration for promotion to the next 
        higher grade;
            (B) are in the same grade as the officers in the promotion 
        zone for that competitive category; and
            (C) are junior to the junior officer in the promotion zone 
        for that competitive category.

(Added Pub. L. 96-513, title I, Sec. 105, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2867; 
amended Pub. L. 97-86, title IV, Sec. 405(b)(1), Dec. 1, 1981, 95 Stat. 
1105; Pub. L. 98-525, title V, Sec. 533(a), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 
2528; Pub. L. 99-145, title V, Sec. 514(b)(1), Nov. 8, 1985, 99 Stat. 
628; Pub. L. 102-25, title VII, Sec. 701(i)(1), Apr. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 
115.)


                               Amendments

    1991--Pars. (1) to (3). Pub. L. 102-25 inserted ``The term'' after 
par. designations and lowercased initial letter of quoted phrases.
    1985--Par. (1)(A)(ii). Pub. L. 99-145 substituted ``rear admiral 
(lower half)'' for ``commodore''.
    1984--Par. (1)(A)(i)(II), (ii)(II). Pub. L. 98-525, Sec. 533(a)(1), 
inserted ``(other than after having been placed on that list after a 
selection from below the promotion zone)''.
    Par. (1)(B). Pub. L. 98-525, Sec. 533(a)(2), inserted ``in the 
promotion zone'' after ``the junior officer'' and struck out ``in the 
promotion zone'' after ``higher grade''.
    1981--Par. (1)(A)(ii). Pub. L. 97-86 substituted ``commodore'' for 
``commodore admiral''.


                    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.
