Reassignment: staff corps officer promoted

§ 5657. Reassignment: staff corps officer promoted (a) When a staff corps officer on active duty is promoted after selection, he shall have a running mate assigned to him in the higher grade. The officer to be so assigned is an eligible line officer serving in the higher grade whose name was placed on the promotion list for that grade upon approval of the report of the line selection board immediately preceding the staff corps selection board that selected the staff corps officer. (b) The officer to be assigned as the running mate of a staff corps officer under subsection (a) is the same line officer who was the running mate of the staff corps officer before the staff corps officer was promoted, if the former running mate was selected for promotion by the line selection board immediately preceding the staff corps board. Otherwise, the officer to be assigned as the new running mate is the eligible line officer, among those so selected, who was next senior to the former running mate in the grade from which promoted, or the next junior if none senior were so selected. (c) If a selection board for a grade in a staff corps is not convened between the dates of convening of two or more line selection boards for the grade, the earliest of those line selection boards is considered to be the line selection board immediately preceding the staff corps board for the purpose of this section.