Title 10Armed ForcesRelease 119-73

§20216 Reports of selection boards

Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle F— - Alternative Military Personnel Systems › Part PART I— - SPACE FORCE › Chapter CHAPTER 2005— - OFFICERS › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - SELECTION BOARDS › § 20216

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Each selection board must send a written report to the Secretary of the Air Force. The report must be signed by every board member, list the officers the board recommends for promotion, state that the board carefully reviewed the records given under section 615, and say that a majority believes the recommended officers are the best qualified to meet Space Force needs under the guidance in section 615(b). The report must also name any officer whom a majority thinks should have to show cause for continued Space Force active status under section 20503. When allowed by section 20215(g), the board must give names and the order it recommends for placement higher on the promotion list. The board may also recommend that an officer be excluded from future promotion consideration.

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Title 10, §20216

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(a)Each selection board convened under section 20211 of this title shall submit to the Secretary of the Air Force a written report, signed by each member of the board, containing a list of the names of the officers it recommends for promotion and certifying—
(1)that the board has carefully considered the record of each officer whose name was furnished to it under section 615 of this title; and
(2)that, in the opinion of a majority of the members of the board, the officers recommended for promotion by the board are best qualified for promotion to meet the needs of the Space Force (as noted in the guidelines or information furnished the board under section 615(b) of this title) among those officers whose names were furnished to the selection board.
(b)A selection board convened under section 20211 of this title shall include in its report the name of any officer before it for consideration for promotion whose record, in the opinion of a majority of the members of the board, indicates that the officer should be required under section 20503 of this title to show cause for the officer’s retention in a space force active status.
(c)A selection board convened under section 20211 of this title shall, when authorized under section 20215(g) of this title, include in its report the names of those officers recommended by the board to be placed higher on the promotion list and the order in which the board recommends that those officers should be placed on the list.
(d)A selection board convened under section 20211 of this title may include in its report a recommendation that an officer considered by the board be excluded from future consideration for promotion under this chapter.

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2024—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 118–159 substituted “20215(g)” for “20214(g)”.

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10 U.S.C. § 20216

Title 10Armed Forces

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73