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10 U.S.C. § 663 — Joint duty assignments after completion of joint professional military education

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10 U.S.C. § 663 — Joint duty assignments after completion of joint professional military education

**(a) Joint Qualified Officers.—** The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that each officer designated as a joint qualified officer who graduates from a school within the National Defense University specified in subsection (c) 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). **(b) Other Officers.—** (1) The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that a high proportion (which shall be greater than 50 percent) of the officers graduating from a school within the National Defense University specified in subsection (c) who are not designated as a joint qualified officer shall receive assignments to a joint duty assignment (or, as authorized by the Secretary in an individual case, to a joint assignment other than a joint duty assignment) as their next duty assignment after such graduation or, to the extent authorized in paragraph (2), as their second duty assignment after such graduation. (2) 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 assignment requirement in paragraph (1) to be assigned to such an assignment as their second (rather than first) assignment after such graduation from a school referred to in paragraph (1). **(c) Covered Schools Within the National Defense University.—** For purposes of this section, a school within the National Defense University specified in this subsection is one of the following: (1) The National War College. (2) The Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy. (3) The Joint Forces Staff College. **(

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10 U.S.C. § 2153 — Capstone course: newly selected general and flag officers

**(a) Requirement.—** Each officer selected for promotion to the grade of brigadier general or, in the case of the Navy or the commissioned officer corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, rear admiral (lower half) shall be required, after such selection, to attend a military education course designed specifically to prepare new general and flag officers to work with the other uniformed services. **(b) Waiver Authority.—** (1) Subject to paragraph (2), the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of Commerce, as applicable, may waive subsection (a)— (A) in the case of an officer whose immediately previous assignment was in a joint duty assignment and who is thoroughly familiar with joint matters; (B) when necessary for the good of the service; (C) in the case of an officer whose proposed selection for promotion is based primarily upon scientific and technical qualifications for which joint requirements do not exist (as determined under regulations prescribed under section 619(e)(4) 11 See References in Text note below. of this title); and (D) in the case of a medical officer, dental officer, veterinary officer, medical service officer, nurse, biomedical science officer, or chaplain. (2) The authority of the Secretary of Defense to grant a waiver under paragraph (1) may only be delegated to the Deputy Secretary of Defense, an Under Secretary of Defense, or an Assistant Secretary of Defense. Such a waiver may be granted only on a case-by-case basis in the case of an individual officer.

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10 U.S.C. § 2156 — Joint Forces Staff College: duration of principal course of instruction

**(a) Duration.—** The duration of the principal course of instruction offered at the Joint Forces Staff College may not be less than 10 weeks of resident instruction. **(b) Definition.—** In this section, the term “principal course of instruction” means any course of instruction offered at the Joint Forces Staff College as Phase II joint professional military education.

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10 U.S.C. § 2152 — Joint professional military education: general requirements

**(a) In General.—** The Secretary of Defense shall implement a comprehensive framework for the joint professional military education of officers, including officers nominated under [section 661 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section661&num=0&edition=prelim) for the joint specialty. **(b) Joint Military Education Schools.—** The Secretary of Defense, with the advice and assistance of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, shall periodically review and revise the curriculum of each school of the National Defense University (and of any other joint professional military education school) to enhance the education and training of officers in joint matters. The Secretary shall require such schools to maintain rigorous standards for the military education of officers with the joint specialty. **(c) Other Professional Military Education Schools.—** The Secretary of Defense shall require that each Department of Defense school concerned with professional military education periodically review and revise its curriculum for senior and intermediate grade officers in order to strengthen the focus on— (1) joint matters; and (2) preparing officers for joint duty assignments.

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10 U.S.C. § 663 — Joint duty assignments after completion of

Page 647 TITLE 10—ARMED FORCES § 663 2006—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 109–364 inserted ‘‘and’’ at end of par. (1), added par. (2), and struck out former pars. (2) and (3) which read as follows: ‘‘(2) officers who have the joint specialty are ex- pected, as a group, to be promoted— ‘‘(A) during the period beginning on December 28, 2001, and ending on December 27, 2006, at a rate not less than the rate for officers of the same armed force in the same grade and competitive category; and ‘‘(B) after December 27, 2006, at a rate not less than the rate for officers of the same armed force in the same grade and competitive category who are serving on, or have served on, the headquarters staff of their armed force; and ‘‘(3) officers who are serving in, or have served in, joint duty assignments (other than officers covered in paragraphs (1) and (2)) are expected, as a group, to be promoted to the next higher grade at a rate not less than the rate for all officers of the same armed force in the same grade and competitive category.’’ 2004—Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 108–375 substituted ‘‘De- cember 27, 2006’’ for ‘‘December 27, 2004’’ in two places. 2002—Subsec. (a)(2)(A). Pub. L. 107–314, § 1062(a)(4)(A), substituted ‘‘during the period beginning on December 28, 2001, and ending on December 27, 2004,’’ for ‘‘during the three-year period beginning on the date of the en- actment of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002,’’. Subsec. (a)(2)(B). Pub. L. 107–314, § 1062(a)(4)(B), sub- stituted ‘‘after December 27, 2004’’ for ‘‘after the end of the period specified in subparagraph (A)’’. 2001—Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 107–107 substituted ‘‘pro- moted—’’ for ‘‘promoted at a rate’’, added subpar. (A), designated ‘‘not less than the rate for officers of t

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