Regular Marine Corps; male officers designated for supply duty: numbers that may be recommended

§ 5759. Regular Marine Corps; male officers designated for supply duty: numbers that may be recommended (a) The Secretary of the Navy shall furnish the appropriate selection board convened under chapter 543 of this title with the number of officers of the Marine Corps designated for supply duty that may be recommended for promotion to the grade of brigadier general. This number, determined by the Secretary as of the date the selection board is convened, is equal to the number of vacancies existing in the grade of brigadier general for officers designated for supply duty, plus 350 the number of additional vacancies estimated for the next 12 months, minus the number of colonels designated for supply duty on the promotion list. (b) The Secretary shall furnish the appropriate selection board, convened under chapter 543 of this title to recommend officers for promotion to a grade below brigadier general, with the number of male officers of the Marine Corps designated for supply duty that may be recommended for promotion to the grade concerned. He shall determine this number, based upon the needs of the service, as of the date the selection board is convened. The number— (1) may not exceed the total number of male officers designated for supply duty in the promotion zone; and (2) may not be less than the product of the number of male officers designated for supply duty in the promotion zone and a fraction, of which the numerator is the number of male officers of the Marine Corps, not restricted in the performance of duty, in the same grade, that may be recommended for promotion in that fiscal year, and the denominator is the number of male officers of the Marine Corps, not restricted in the performance of duty, in the promotion zone for the grade concerned in that year.