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[CITE: 33USC853f]

 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
                    CHAPTER 17--NATIONAL OCEAN SURVEY
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 853f. Length of service for promotion purposes

    Each officer shall be assumed to have, for promotion purposes, at 
least the same length of service as any officer below him on the lineal 
list, except that an officer who has lost numbers shall be assumed to 
have for promotion purposes no greater service than the officer next 
above him in his new position on the lineal list.

(June 3, 1948, ch. 390, Sec. 7, 62 Stat. 298.)
