§20212 Composition of Selection Boards

Summary

The Secretary of the Air Force must pick the members of Space Force promotion boards. Each board must have five or more Space Force officers. Every member must be a higher rank than the officers being considered and no member can be below the rank of major. Each board must include at least one member on sustained duty and at least one who is in an active Space Force status but not on sustained duty. The mix of those two kinds of members should, when possible, match the mix of officers being considered. Boards should also try to reflect the Space Force’s diversity. A board should include at least one officer from each competitive category being considered unless there are no eligible officers of that category in a higher rank. If there are not enough eligible officers, the Secretary may add retired Space Force officers of higher rank, and if still needed, retired Air Force officers who served long enough in Space Force or space-related Air Force jobs. A retired general brought back to active duty just to serve on a board does not count against limits on active-duty generals. No officer may sit on two back-to-back boards that consider the same category and rank, except this rule does not apply for boards that consider colonels or brigadier generals. If a board will consider someone who served on the Joint Staff or is joint qualified, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff must name at least one joint-qualified officer to that board, although the Secretary of Defense can waive that requirement for Space Force boards.