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Code · BILL · 117th Congress · H.R. 7900 (Placed on Calendar Senate) — To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2023 for military activities of the Department of Defense and for militar... · Sec. 202

Sec. 202. Continuation of officers with certain critical skills on active duty

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Chapter 21 of title 14, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 2165 the following: The Commandant may authorize an officer in a grade above grade O–2 to remain on active duty after the date otherwise provided for the retirement of such officer in section 2154 of this title, if the officer possesses a critical skill, or specialty, or is in a career field designated pursuant to subsection (b). The Commandant shall designate any critical skill, specialty, or career field eligible for continuation on active duty as provided in subsection (a).
An officer continued on active duty pursuant to this section shall, if not earlier retired, be retired on the first day of the month after the month in which the officer completes 40 years of active service. The Commandant shall carry out this section by prescribing policy which shall specify the criteria to be used in designating any critical skill, specialty, or career field for purposes of subsection (b). . The analysis for chapter 21 of title 14, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 2165 the following: 2166.
Continuation on active duty; Coast Guard officers with certain critical skills. .
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