AUTHORITY TO PERMIT NON-UNTT ASSIGNED OFFICERS TO BE CONSIDERED BY VACANCY PROMOTION BOARD TO GENERAL OFFICER GRADES.

SEC. 514. AUTHORITY TO PERMIT NON-UNTT ASSIGNED OFFICERS TO BE CONSIDERED BY VACANCY PROMOTION BOARD TO GENERAL OFFICER GRADES. (a) Convening of Selection Boards.—Section 14101(a)(2) of title 10, United States Code, is amended by striking out “(except in the case of a board convened to consider officers as provided in section 14301(e) of this title)”. (b) Eligibility for Consideration of Certain Army Officers.—Section 14301 of such title is amended— (1) by striking out subsection (e); and (2) by redesignating subsections (f) and (g) as subsections (e) and (f), respectively. (c) General Officer Promotions.—Section 14308 of such title is amended— (1) in subsection (e)(2), by inserting “a grade below colonel in” after “(2) an officer in”; and (2) in subsection (g)— (A) by inserting “or the Air Force” in the first sentence after “of the Army” the first place it appears; (B) by striking out “in that grade” in the first sentence and all that follows through “Secretary of the Army” and inserting in lieu thereof “in the Army Reserve or the Air Force Reserve, as the case may be, in that grade”; and (C) by striking out the second sentence. (d) Vacancy Promotions.—Section 14315(b)(1) of such title is amended by striking out “duties” in clause (A) and all that follows through “as a unit,” and inserting in lieu thereof “duties of a general officer of the next higher reserve grade in the Army Reserve,”.