Regular Navy: lieutenants (junior grade)

§ 5652. Regular Navy: lieutenants (junior grade) (a) After the end of each calendar year, officers serving in the grade of lieutenant (junior grade) on the active list of the Navy in each staff corps who have dates of rank in that grade in the calendar year just ended, except officers appointed to that grade in a staff corps by transfer from the line, shall have assigned to them, in the order of their lineal rank, running mates from among eligible line officers on active duty serving in the grade of lieutenant (junior grade). Lieutenants (junior grade) of each staff corps other than the Medical Corps shall have running mates assigned to them from among eligible line lieutenants (junior grade) having dates of rank in the same calendar year as themselves. Lieutenants (junior grade) in the Medical Corps shall have running mates assigned to them from among eligible line lieutenants (junior grade) having dates of rank in the preceding calendar year. (b) The officer to be assigned as the running mate of a staff corps officer under this section is the eligible line officer whose numerical position in the order of lineal rank, among the line lieutenants (junior grade) on active duty having dates of rank in the calendar year prescribed in subsection (a), most nearly equals the product of— (1) the numerical position of the staff corps officer in his order of lineal rank as determined under subsection (c) or (d); and (2) a fraction, of which— (A) the numerator is the number of line lieutenants (junior grade) on active duty having dates of rank in the prescribed calendar year; and 333 (B) the denominator is the number of lieutenants (junior grade) in the staff corps concerned who have dates of rank in the same calendar year as such staff corps officer and who are to have running mates assigned to them under this section. However, if in any year there is only one lieutenant (junior grade) in any corps to have a running mate assigned to him under this section, the officer to be so assigned is the eligible line officer whose numerical position is nearest the middle of the line lieutenants (junior grade) on active duty having dates of rank in the prescribed calendar year. (c) In each staff corps in which officers may be originally appointed either in the grade of ensign or in that of lieutenant (junior grade), all the lieutenants (junior grade) who are to have running mates assigned to them under this section at any one time are regarded, for the purpose of this section, as having lineal rank among themselves in the order recommended in the approved report of a board of officers of the corps concerned. Such boards shall be convened as soon as practicable after the end of each calendar year, and their recommendations, when approved by the Secretary of the Navy, are conclusive. (d) In each staff corps in which appointments in the grade of ensign are not authorized, all the lieutenants (junior grade) who are to have running mates assigned to them under this section at any one time are regarded, for the purposes of this section, as having lineal rank among themselves in the chronological order of their dates of rank.