Commissioned officers: promotion to captain, major, or lieutenant colonel; selection board procedure

§ 8300. Commissioned officers: promotion to captain, major, or lieutenant colonel; selection board procedure (a) When promotion-list officers in the regular grade of first lieutenant, captain, or major are to be considered, under section 8299 of this title, by a selection board for promotion to the next higher regular grade to fill existing or anticipated vacancies, the Secretary of the Air Force may direct the board to— (1) consider officers in the specified grade in the order of their seniority on the promotion list concerned; (2) recommend those who are fully qualified for promotion; (3) pass over those not so qualified; and 513 (4) continue this procedure until the number of officers specified by him is recommended. (b) When a promotion-list officer in the regular grade of first lieutenant, captain, or major must be considered under section 8299 of this title for promotion because of length of service, or because he is on a promotion list above an officer who must be considered for that reason, the Secretary may— (1) furnish the board a list of officers to be considered for promotion to the grade concerned; and (2) direct the board to recommend the officers on that list whom it considers fully qualified for promotion. (c) Instead of the procedures set forth in subsection (a) or (b), the Secretary may furnish to the board a list of promotion-list officers to be considered and may direct it to recommend a number specified by him for promotion. The board shall recommend those officers whom it considers to be the best qualified. However, the number prescribed by the Secretary for recommendation must be at least 80 percent of those listed for consideration.