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14 U.S.C. § 2106 — Selection boards; convening of boards
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At least once a year and at such other times as the needs of the service require, the Secretary shall convene selection boards to recommend for promotion to the next higher grade officers on the active duty promotion list in each grade from lieutenant (junior grade) through captain, with separate boards for each grade. However, the Secretary is not required to convene a board to recommend officers for promotion to a grade when no vacancies exist in the grade concerned, and he estimates that none will occur in the next twelve months.
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At least once a year and at such other times as the needs of the service require, the Secretary shall convene selection boards to recommend for promotion to the next higher grade officers on the active duty promotion list in each grade from lieutenant (junior grade) through captain, with separate boards for each grade. However, the Secretary is not required to convene a board to recommend officers for promotion to a grade when no vacancies exist in the grade concerned, and he estimates that none will occur in the next twelve months.
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A board convened under [section 2106 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title14-section2106&num=0&edition=prelim) shall consist of five or more officers on the active duty promotion list who are serving in or above the grade to which the board may recommend officers for promotion. No officer may be a member of two successive boards convened to consider officers of the same grade for promotion.
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**(a)** Before a board is convened under [section 2106 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title14-section2106&num=0&edition=prelim), notice of the convening date, the promotion zone to be considered, and the officers eligible for consideration shall be given to the service at large.
**(b)** Each officer eligible for consideration by a selection board convened under [section 2106 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title14-section2106&num=0&edition=prelim) may send a communication through official channels to the board, to arrive not later than the date the board convenes, inviting attention to any matter of record in the armed forces concerning such officer. A communication sent under this section may not criticize any officer or reflect upon the character, conduct, or motive of any officer.
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Before convening a board under [section 2106 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title14-section2106&num=0&edition=prelim) to recommend officers for promotion to any grade, the Secretary shall determine the total number of officers to be selected for promotion to that grade. This number shall be equal to the number of vacancies existing in the grade, plus the number of additional vacancies estimated for the next twelve months, less the number of officers on the selection list for the grade.
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**(a) In General.—** The Secretary shall furnish the appropriate selection board convened under [section 2106 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title14-section2106&num=0&edition=prelim) with—
(1) the number of officers that the board may recommend for promotion to the next higher grade;
(2) the names and records of all officers who are eligible for consideration for promotion to the grade to which the board will recommend officers for promotion; and
(3) in the case of an eligible officer considered for promotion to a rank above lieutenant, any credible information of an adverse nature, including any substantiated adverse finding or conclusion from an officially documented investigation or inquiry and any information placed in the personnel service record of the officer under section 1745(a) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 (Public Law 113–66; [10 U.S.C. 1561](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section1561&num=0&edition=prelim) note), shall be furnished to the selection board in accordance with standards and procedures set out in the regulations prescribed by the Secretary.
**(b) Provision of Direction and Guidance.—**
(1) In addition to the information provided pursuant to subsection (a), the Secretary may furnish the selection board—
(A) specific direction relating to the needs of the Coast Guard for officers having particular skills, including direction relating to the need for a minimum number of officers with particular skills within a specialty; and
(B) any other guidance that the Secretary believes may be necessary to enable the board to properly perform its functions.
(2) Selections made based on the direction and guidance provided under this subs
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**(a)** A selection board convened to recommend officers for promotion shall recommend those eligible officers whom the board, giving due consideration to the needs of the Coast Guard for officers with particular skills so noted in specific direction furnished to the board by the Secretary under [section 2115 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title14-section2115&num=0&edition=prelim), considers best qualified of the officers under consideration for promotion. No officer may be recommended for promotion unless he receives the recommendation of at least a majority of the members of a board composed of five members, or at least two-thirds of the members of a board composed of more than five members.
**(b)** The number of officers that a board convened under [section 2106 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title14-section2106&num=0&edition=prelim) may recommend for promotion to a grade below rear admiral (lower half) from among eligible officers junior in rank to the junior officer in the appropriate promotion zone may not exceed—
(1) 5 percent of the total number of officers that the board is authorized to recommend for promotion to the grade of lieutenant or lieutenant commander;
(2) 7½ percent of the total number of officers that the board is authorized to recommend for promotion to the grade of commander; and
(3) 10 percent of the total number of officers that the board is authorized to recommend for promotion to the grade of captain;
unless such percentage is a number less than one, in which case the board may recommend one such officer for promotion.
**(c)**
(1) In selecting the officers to be recommended for promotion, a selection board may recommend officers of particular merit,
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**(a)** Each board convened under [section 2106 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title14-section2106&num=0&edition=prelim) shall submit a report in writing, signed by all the members thereof, containing the names of the officers recommended for promotion and the names of those officers recommended to be advanced to the top of the list of selectees established by the Secretary under [section 2121(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title14-section2121/a&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(b)** A board convened under [section 2106 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title14-section2106&num=0&edition=prelim) shall certify that, in the opinion of at least a majority of the members if the board has five members, or in the opinion of at least two-thirds of the members if the board has more than five members, the officers recommended for promotion are the best qualified for promotion to meet the needs of the service (as noted in specific direction furnished the board by the Secretary under [section 2115 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title14-section2115&num=0&edition=prelim)) of those officers whose names have been furnished to the board.
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**(a)** A board convened under [section 2106 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title14-section2106&num=0&edition=prelim) shall submit its report to the Secretary. If the board has acted contrary to law or regulation, the Secretary may return the report for proceedings in revision and resubmission to the Secretary. After his final review, the Secretary shall submit the report of the board to the President for his approval, modification, or disapproval.
**(b)** If any officer recommended for promotion is not acceptable to the President, the President may remove the name of that officer from the report of the board.
**(c)** Upon approval by the President the names of officers selected for promotion by a board convened under [section 2106 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title14-section2106&num=0&edition=prelim) shall be promptly disseminated to the service at large.
**(d)** Except as required by this section, the proceedings of a selection board, including a special selection board convened under section 2120, shall not be disclosed to any individual who is not a member of the board.
**(e)** If the Secretary makes a recommendation under this section that the name of an officer be removed from a report of a selection board and the recommendation is accompanied by information that was not presented to that selection board, that information shall be made available to that officer. The officer shall then be afforded a reasonable opportunity to submit comments on that information to the officials making the recommendation and the officials reviewing the recommendation. If an eligible officer cannot be given access to such information because of its classification status, the officer shall,
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**(a) In General.—**
(1) If the Secretary determines that a person recommended by a promotion board for promotion to a grade at or below the grade of rear admiral is the subject of credible information of an adverse nature, including any substantiated adverse finding or conclusion described in [section 2115(a)(3) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title14-section2115/a/3&num=0&edition=prelim) that was not furnished to the promotion board during its consideration of the person for promotion as otherwise required by such section, the Secretary shall convene a special selection review board under this section to review the person and recommend whether the recommendation for promotion of the person should be sustained.
(2) If a person and the recommendation for promotion of the person is subject to review under this section by a special selection review board convened under this section, the name of the person—
(A) shall not be disseminated or publicly released on the list of officers recommended for promotion by the promotion board recommending the promotion of the person; and
(B) shall not be forwarded to the President or the Senate, as applicable, or included on a promotion list under [section 2121 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title14-section2121&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(b) Convening.—**
(1) Any special selection review board convened under this section shall be convened in accordance with the provisions of [section 2120(c) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title14-section2120/c&num=0&edition=prelim).
(2) Any special selection review board convened under this section may review such number of persons, and recommendations for promot
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**(a)** Each officer of the Regular Coast Guard appointed under [section 2101 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title14-section2101&num=0&edition=prelim) who is serving in the grade of lieutenant and who has failed of selection for promotion to the grade of lieutenant commander for the second time shall:
(1) be honorably discharged on June 30 of the promotion year in which his second failure of selection occurs; or
(2) if he so requests, be honorably discharged at an earlier date without loss of benefits that would accrue if he were discharged on that date under clause (1); or
(3) if, on the date specified for his discharge in this section, he has completed at least 20 years of active service or is eligible for retirement under any law, be retired on that date; or
(4) if, on the date specified for his discharge in clause (1), he has completed at least eighteen years of active service, be retained on active duty and retired on the last day of the month in which he completes twenty years of active service, unless earlier removed under another provision of law.
**(b)**
(1) When the needs of the service require, the Secretary may direct a selection board, which has been convened under [section 2106 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title14-section2106&num=0&edition=prelim), to recommend for continuation on active duty for terms of not less than two nor more than four years a designated number of officers of the grade of lieutenant who would otherwise be discharged or retired under this section. When so directed, the board shall recommend for continuation on active duty those officers under consideration who are, in the opinion of the board, best qualified for continuation. Each officer
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**(a)** Each officer of the Regular Coast Guard serving in the grade of lieutenant commander or commander, who has failed of selection for promotion to the grade of commander or captain, respectively, for the second time shall:
(1) if he has completed at least 20 years of active service or is eligible for retirement under any law on June 30 of the promotion year in which his second failure of selection occurs, be retired on that date; or
(2) if ineligible for retirement on the date specified in clause (1) be retained on active duty and retired on the last day of the month in which he completes twenty years of active service, unless earlier removed under another provision of law.
**(b)** A lieutenant commander or commander of the Regular Coast Guard subject to discharge or retirement under subsection (a) may be continued on active duty when the Secretary directs a selection board convened under [section 2106 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title14-section2106&num=0&edition=prelim) to continue up to a specified number of lieutenant commanders or commanders on active duty. When so directed, the selection board shall recommend those officers who in the opinion of the board are best qualified to advance the needs and efficiency of the Coast Guard. When the recommendations of the board are approved by the Secretary, the officers recommended for continuation shall be notified that they have been recommended for continuation and offered an additional term of service that fulfills the needs of the Coast Guard.
**(c)**
(1) An officer who holds the grade of lieutenant commander of the Regular Coast Guard may not be continued on active duty under subsection (b) for a period that extends beyond 24 years of active commissioned service
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