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Number 19, published on web site only:
Promotion Board Consideration of Reserve Officers on Active Duty
By CAPT Samuel F. Wright, JAGC, USNR*
Q: I am a Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force Reserve. I have an opportunity to go on active duty for three years, starting early in 2001. I believe that I will be in the zone for Colonel in 2002. If the Air Force Reserve selection board considers me, it is likely that I will be selected. On the other hand, I will almost certainly not be selected if I must compete with Lieutenant Colonels who have been on full-time active duty for the last two decades. If I take the three-year active duty opportunity, will the active duty board or the Reserve board consider my record?
A: Section 521 of the Fiscal Year 2001 National Defense Authorization Act addresses this question directly, in a way that is most favorable to you. Section 521 adds a new subparagraph "D" to Title 10, United States Code, section 641(1) [10 U.S.C. 641(1)].
Chapter 36 of Title 10 deals with "Promotion, Separation, and Involuntary Retirement of Officers on the Active Duty List." If you are on active duty, you will be considered for promotion along with other officers on the Active Duty List (ADL), unless you fit in one of the classes of officers exempted from the ADL by 10 U.S.C. 641(1). Newly enacted subparagraph D exempts from the ADL any Reserve officer on active duty under an order or call specifying an active duty period of three years or less.
Under the law as recently amended, you will be considered for promotion in 2002 by the Air Force Reserve selection board, not the ADL selection board. The answer was different until this new subparagraph D was added quite recently
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