GRADE OF CERTAIN COMMANDERS OF SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES.

SEC. 936. GRADE OF CERTAIN COMMANDERS OF SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES. (a) Grade for Certain Regional SOF Commanders.—During the period beginning on February 1, 1993, and ending on February 1, 1995, the provisions of section 1311(e) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987 (10 U.S.C. 167 note) shall apply as if the Secretary of Defense had designated the United States Southern Command and the United States Central Command for the purposes of that section. (b) Report.—Not later than March 1, 1994, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress a report setting forth the Secretary’s recommendations for the grade structure for the special operations forces component commander for each unified command, particularly as to whether each such commander should be of general or flag officer grade. (c) Repeal of Duplicative Provisions.—Subsections (c), (d), and (e) of section 9115 of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1987 (as enacted in identical form in sections 101(c) of Public Law 99–500 and Public Law 99–591), are repealed.