Title 32National GuardRelease 119-73

§309 Federal recognition of National Guard officers: officers promoted to fill vacancies

Title 32 › Chapter CHAPTER 3— - PERSONNEL › § 309

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

National Guard officers promoted to fill federally recognized vacancies who have at least one year on Army or Air Force active or reserve lists and meet the time‑in‑grade required by 10 U.S.C. 14303 must be examined for federal recognition.

Full Legal Text

Title 32, §309

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Each officer of the National Guard who is promoted to fill a vacancy in a federally recognized unit of the National Guard, and who has been on the reserve active-status list or the active-duty list of the Army or the Air Force for at least one year and has completed the minimum years of service in grade specified in section 14303 of title 10, shall be examined for Federal recognition in the grade to which the officer is promoted.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 30950:1251.Sept. 3, 1954, ch. 1257, § 319, 68 Stat. 1160. The words “authorized under section 1227(a) of this title” are omitted as surplusage.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–337 substituted “National Guard officers: officers” for “officers: Army National Guard; officers” in section catchline and amended text generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “Each officer of the Army National Guard who is promoted to fill a vacancy in a federally recognized unit thereof, and who is eligible for promotion under section 3363(b) of title 10, shall be examined for Federal recognition in the grade to which he is promoted. However, a second lieutenant or first lieutenant of the Army National Guard who has served creditably for at least one year in a position prescribed to be filled by a captain, and who has not previously been federally recognized under this section, may be examined for Federal recognition in the next higher grade without regard to section 3363(b) of title 10.”

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1994 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 103–337 effective Oct. 1, 1996, see section 1691 of Pub. L. 103–337, set out as an

Effective Date

note under section 10001 of Title 10, Armed Forces. Suspension of This SectionFor authority of the President to suspend this section in time of war or emergency declared by Congress, see section 111 of this title.

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Citation

32 U.S.C. § 309

Title 32National Guard

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73