FLEXIBILITY FOR REQUIRED POST-EDUCATION JOINT DUTY ASSIGNMENT.

SEC. 933. FLEXIBILITY FOR REQUIRED POST-EDUCATION JOINT DUTY ASSIGNMENT. (a) In General.—Subsection (d) of section 663 of title 10, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: “(d) Post-Education Joint Duty Assignments.—(1) The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that each officer with the joint specialty who graduates from a joint professional military education school shall be assigned to a joint duty assignment for that officer’s next duty assignment after such graduation (unless the officer receives a waiver of that requirement by the Secretary in an individual case). 107 STAT. 1736 “(2)(A) The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that a high proportion (which shall be greater than 50 percent) of the officers graduating from a joint professional military education school who do not have the joint specialty shall receive assignments to a joint duty assignment as their next duty assignment after such graduation or, to the extent authorized in subparagraph (B), as their second duty assignment after such graduation. “(B) The Secretary may, if the Secretary determines that it is necessary to do so for the efficient management of officer personnel, establish procedures to allow up to one-half of the officers subject to the joint duty assignment requirement in subparagraph (A) to be assigned to a joint duty assignment as their second (rather than first) assignment after such graduation from a joint professional military education school.”. (b) Effective Date.—The amendments made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to officers graduating from joint professional military education schools after the date of the enactment of this Act.