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10 U.S.C. § 626 — Acceptance of promotions; oath of office
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**(a)** An officer who is appointed to a higher grade under [section 624 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section624&num=0&edition=prelim) is considered to have accepted such appointment on the date on which the appointment is made unless he expressly declines the appointment.
**(b)** An officer who has served continuously since he subscribed to the oath of office prescribed in [section 3331 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section3331&num=0&edition=prelim) is not required to take a new oath upon appointment to a higher grade under [section 624 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section624&num=0&edition=prelim).
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**(a)** An officer who is appointed to a higher grade under [section 624 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section624&num=0&edition=prelim) is considered to have accepted such appointment on the date on which the appointment is made unless he expressly declines the appointment.
**(b)** An officer who has served continuously since he subscribed to the oath of office prescribed in [section 3331 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section3331&num=0&edition=prelim) is not required to take a new oath upon appointment to a higher grade under [section 624 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section624&num=0&edition=prelim).
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**(a)**
(1) When the report of a selection board convened under [section 611(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section611/a&num=0&edition=prelim) is approved by the President, the Secretary of the military department concerned shall place the names of all officers approved for promotion within a competitive category on a single list for that competitive category, to be known as a promotion list, in the order of the seniority of such officers on the active-duty list or based on particular merit, as determined by the promotion board. A promotion list is considered to be established under this section as of the date of the approval of the report of the selection board under the preceding sentence.
(2) Except as provided in subsection (d), officers on a promotion list for a competitive category shall be promoted to the next higher grade when additional officers in that grade and competitive category are needed. Promotions shall be made in the order in which the names of officers appear on the promotion list and after officers previously selected for promotion in that competitive category have been promoted. Officers to be promoted to the grade of first lieutenant or lieutenant (junior grade) shall be promoted in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary concerned.
(3)
(A) Except as provided in subsection (d), officers on the active-duty list in the grade of first lieutenant or, in the case of the Navy, lieutenant (junior grade) who are on an approved all-fully-qualified-officers list shall be promoted to the next higher grade in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary concerned.
(B) An all-fully-qualified-officers list shall be considered to be approved for purposes of subparagraph (
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An individual, except the President, elected or appointed to an office of honor or profit in the civil service or uniformed services, shall take the following oath: “I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.” This section does not affect other oaths required by law.
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**(a) In General.—** The following definitions apply in this title:
(1) The term “United States”, in a geographic sense, means the States and the District of Columbia.
(2) Repealed. Pub. L. 109–163, div. A, title X, § 1057(a)(1), Jan. 6, 2006, 119 Stat. 3440.]
(3) The term “possessions” includes the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Guano Islands, so long as they remain possessions, but does not include any Commonwealth.
(4) The term “armed forces” means the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, and Coast Guard.
(5) The term “uniformed services” means—
(A) the armed forces;
(B) the commissioned corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; and
(C) the commissioned corps of the Public Health Service.
(6) The term “department”, when used with respect to a military department, means the executive part of the department and all field headquarters, forces, reserve components, installations, activities, and functions under the control or supervision of the Secretary of the department. When used with respect to the Department of Defense, such term means the executive part of the department, including the executive parts of the military departments, and all field headquarters, forces, reserve components, installations, activities, and functions under the control or supervision of the Secretary of Defense, including those of the military departments.
(7) The term “executive part of the department” means the executive part of the Department of Defense, Department of the Army, Department of the Navy, or Department of the Air Force, as the case may be, at the seat of government.
(8) The term “military departments” means the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, and the Department of the Air Force.
(9) The term
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**(a) Definition.—** In this section, the term “proposal” means any proposal, including a technical, management, or cost proposal, submitted by a contractor in response to the requirements of a solicitation for a competitive proposal.
**(b) Prohibition.—** Except as provided in subsection (c), a proposal in the possession or control of an agency named in [section 3063 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section3063&num=0&edition=prelim) may not be made available to any person under [section 552 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section552&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(c) Inapplicability.—** Subsection (b) does not apply to any proposal that is set forth or incorporated by reference in a contract entered into between the Department and the contractor that submitted the proposal.
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**(a) Information to Be Furnished to Congressional Committees.—** The Director of the Missile Defense Agency shall provide to the congressional defense committees information on the results of each flight test of the ground-based midcourse national missile defense system.
**(b) Content.—** Information provided under subsection (a) on the results of a flight test shall include the following matters:
(1) A thorough discussion of the content and objectives of the test.
(2) For each such test objective, a statement regarding whether or not the objective was achieved.
(3) For any such test objective not achieved—
(A) a thorough discussion describing the reasons that the objective was not achieved; and
(B) a discussion of any plans for future tests to achieve that objective.
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**(a)** The Secretary of the Navy shall issue a campaign medal, to be known as the Korea Defense Service Medal, to each person who while a member of the Navy or Marine Corps served in the Republic of Korea or the waters adjacent thereto during the KDSM eligibility period and met the service requirements for the award of that medal prescribed under subsection (c).
**(b)** In this section, the term “KDSM eligibility period” means the period beginning on July 28, 1954, and ending on such date after the date of the enactment of this section as may be determined by the Secretary of Defense to be appropriate for terminating eligibility for the Korea Defense Service Medal.
**(c)** The Secretary of the Navy shall prescribe service requirements for eligibility for the Korea Defense Service Medal. Those requirements shall not be more stringent than the service requirements for award of the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal for instances in which the award of that medal is authorized.
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TITLE 10—ARMED FORCES
§ 625
Executive Documents
DELEGATION OF FUNCTIONS
Functions of President under subsec. (c) to appoint
officers in grades of first lieutenant and captain in
Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps or in grades of lieu-
tenant (junior grade) and lieutenant in Navy delegated
to Secretary of Defense to perform, without approval,
ratification, or other action by President, and with au-
thority for Secretary to redelegate, see Ex. Ord. No.
12396, §§ 1(c), 3, Dec. 9, 1982, 47 F.R. 55897, 55898, set out
as a note under section 301 of Title 3, The President.
§ 625. Authority to vacate promotions to grades
of brigadier general and rear admiral (lower
half)
(a) The President may vacate the promotion
to the grade of brigadier general or rear admiral
(lower half) of an officer who has served less
than 18 months in that grade after promotion to
that grade under this chapter.
(b) An officer of the Army, Air Force, or Ma-
rine Corps whose promotion is vacated under
this section holds the regular grade of colonel, if
he is a regular officer, or the reserve grade of
colonel, if he is a reserve officer. An officer of
the Navy whose promotion is vacated under this
section holds the regular grade of captain, if he
is a regular officer, or the reserve grade of cap-
tain, if he is a reserve officer.
(c) The position on the active-duty list of an
officer whose promotion is vacated under this
section is the position he would have held had
he not been promoted to the grade of brigadier
general or rear admiral (lower half).
(Added Pub. L. 96–513, title I, § 105, Dec. 12, 1980,
94 Stat. 2858; amended Pub. L. 97–86, title IV,
§ 405(b)(1), (4)(A), Dec. 1, 1981, 95 Stat. 1105; Pub.
L. 99–145, title V, § 514(b)(1), (4)(A), Nov. 8, 1985,
99 Stat
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