Sec. 512. Retention on the reserve active-status list following nonselection for promotion of certain health professions officers and first lieutenants and lieutenants (junior grade) pursuing baccalaureate degrees
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Subsection (a)(1) of section 14701 of title 10, United States Code, is amended— by inserting
(A)after
(1); by striking A reserve office of and inserting A reserve officer of the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps described in subparagraph
(B)who is required to be removed from the reserve active-status list under section 14504 of this title, or a reserve officer of ; by inserting a comma after 14507 of this title ; and by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: A reserve officer described in this subparagraph is a reserve officer of the Army, Air Force, or Marine Corps who holds the grade of first lieutenant, or a reserve officer of the Navy who holds the grade of lieutenant (junior grade), who— is a health professions officer; or is actively pursuing an undergraduate program of education leading to a baccalaureate degree. . Such section is further amended— by redesignating subsection
(b)as subsection (c); and by inserting after subsection
(a)the following new subsection (b): Notwithstanding subsection (a)(6), a health professions officer obligated to a period of service incurred under section 16201 of this title who is required to be removed from the reserve active-status list under section 14504, 14505, 14506, or 14507 of this title and who has not completed a service obligation incurred under section 16201 shall be retained on the reserve active-status list until the completion of such service obligation and then discharged, unless sooner retired or discharged under another provision of law. The Secretary concerned may waive the applicability of paragraph
(1)to any officer if the Secretary determines that completion of the service obligation of that officer is not in the best interest of the service. A health professions officer who is continued on the reserve active-status list under this subsection who is subsequently promoted or whose name is on a list of officers recommended for promotion to the next higher grade is not required to be discharged or retired upon completion of the officer’s service obligation. Such officer may continue on the reserve active-status list as other officers of the same grade unless separated under another provision of law. .