Regular Navy: officers designated for engineering duty, aeronautical engineering duty, and special duty

§ 5587. Regular Navy: officers designated for engineering duty, aeronautical engineering duty, and special duty (a) Male persons may be originally appointed to the active list in the line of the Navy as officers designated for engineering duty, aeronautical engineering duty, or special duty. Each person so appointed shall be appointed in the grade of— (1) ensign, if designated for engineering duty, aeronautical engineering duty, or any type of special duty for which a graduate degree is not required: or (2) lieutenant (junior grade), if designated for a type of special duty for which a graduate degree is required. The number of appointments in each of these grades and designations may not exceed, in any fiscal year, the number of vacancies that the Secretary of the Navy estimates will occur in the fiscal year for officers of the grade and designation concerned. 326 (b) With the approval of the Secretary, any officer on the active list in the line of the Navy may, upon his application, be designated for engineering duty, aeronautical engineering duty, or special duty. (c) The types of special duty for which officers may be designated include communications, law, naval intelligence, photography, public information, psychology, and hydrography. (d) Officers designated for engineering duty, aeronautical engineering duty, or special duty are additional numbers in grade. They shall perform sea or shore duty appropriate to their special qualifications but may not succeed to command except on shore and then only as authorized by the Secretary.