Pub. L. 83-773, tit. IV, sec. 408

Sec. 408. (a) No Reserve officer shall be promoted to a higher grade until he has qualified therefor by such moral, professional, and physical examinations as the Secretary may prescribe, and until he has attained the minimum number of points prescribed by the Secretary with the approval of the Secretary of Defense. The physical standards for promotion shall be the same as those which may be prescribed for retention in the Naval Reserve or Marine Corps Reserve. (b) Subsection (a) of this section shall not exclude from the promotion to which he would otherwise be regularly entitled any Reserve officer in whose case a medical board may report that his physical disqualification for duty at sea or in the field was occasioned by wounds received in the line of duty, and that such wounds do not incapacitate him for other duties in the grade to which he shall be promoted.