14 U.S.C. § 257 : US Code - Section 257: Eligibility of officers for consideration for promotion

Search 14 U.S.C. § 257 : US Code - Section 257: Eligibility of officers for consideration for promotion

(a) An officer on the active duty promotion list becomes eligible
for consideration for promotion to the next higher grade at the
beginning of the promotion year in which he completes the following
amount of service computed from his date of rank in the grade in
which he is serving:
(1) two years in the grade of lieutenant (junior grade);
(2) three years in the grade of lieutenant;
(3) four years in the grade of lieutenant commander;
(4) four years in the grade of commander; and
(5) three years in the grade of captain.
(b) For the purpose of this section, service in a grade includes
all qualifying service in that grade or a higher grade, under
either a temporary or permanent appointment. However, service in a
grade under a temporary service appointment under section 275 of
this title is considered as service only in the grade that the
officer concerned would have held had he not been so appointed.
(c) No officer may become eligible for consideration for
promotion until all officers of his grade senior to him are so
eligible.
(d) Except when his name is on a list of selectees, each officer
who becomes eligible for consideration for promotion to the next
higher grade remains eligible so long as he -
(1) continues on active duty; and
(2) is not promoted to that grade.
(e) An officer whose involuntary retirement or separation is
deferred under section 295 of this title is not eligible for
consideration for promotion to the next higher grade during the
period of that deferment.
(f) The Secretary may waive subsection (a) to the extent
necessary to allow officers described therein to have at least two
opportunities for consideration for promotion to the next higher
grade as officers below the promotion zone.