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Code · BILL · 114th Congress · H.R. 4909 (Engrossed in House) — To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2017 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military c... · Sec. 910

Sec. 910. Reduction in general officer and flag officer grades and positions

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Section 164(e) of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding after paragraph
(4)the following new paragraph: The grade of an officer serving as a commander of a service or functional component command under a commander of a combatant command shall be no higher than lieutenant general or vice admiral. . Section 164 of such title is further amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: For purposes of this section— a service component command is subordinate to the commander of a unified command and consists of the service component commander and the service forces (such as individuals, units, detachments, and organizations, including the support forces), as assigned by the Secretary of Defense, that have been assigned to that combatant commander; and a functional component command is a command normally, but not necessarily, composed of forces of two or more military departments which may be established across the range of military operations to perform particular operational missions that may be of short duration or may extend over a period of time. . The Secretary of Defense shall reduce the total number of officers in the grade of general or admiral on active duty by five positions. The Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on how the Department of Defense plans to implement the reductions required by paragraph (1), including how to balance and reduce the total number of general officers and flag officers in accordance with sections 525 and 526 of title 10, United States Code. An officer serving on the date of the enactment of this Act as a commander of a service or functional component command under a commander of a combatant command shall serve in that position until the appointment of another officer in accordance with the amendment made by subsection (a).
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