Pub. L. 83-773, tit. V, sec. 519

Sec. 519. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the appointment and promotion of officers in the Air National Guard of a State, a Territory, or the District of Columbia is a function of the Governor or other appropriate authority thereof. (b) Except as provided by this section and sections 520 and 521 of this title, each person appointed in or promoted to a commissioned grade in the Air National Guard of a State, a Territory, or the District of Columbia to fill an authorized vacancy shall be examined for Federal recognition in that grade by a Federal recognition board. An officer of the Air Force Reserve who is appointed in the Air National Guard of a State, a Territory, or the District of Columbia in a commissioned grade to fill an authorized vacancy shall, effective on the date of his appointment in the Air National Guard of that State or Territory, or of the District of Columbia, be extended Federal recognition, without the examination prescribed in section 75 of the National Defense Act, as amended, if at the time of his appointment he holds the same grade as a Reserve officer or his name is on a recommended list for promotion to that grade. No member of the Air Force Reserve may be federally recognized in the Air National Guard in a grade which is higher or lower than his permanent grade or grade for which he has been recommended for promotion by a selection board under this title. (c) A Reserve officer shall be promoted effective on the date upon which he is extended Federal recognition in the next higher grade in the Air National Guard of a State, a Territory, or the District of Columbia. (d) An adjutant general or assistant adjutant general of a State, a Territory, or the District of Columbia, may be appointed a Reserve officer in any grade if he is extended Federal recognition in that grade in the Air National Guard of a State, a Territory, or the District of Columbia.