Title 10 › Subtitle A — General Military Law › PART II — PERSONNEL › CHAPTER 33A — APPOINTMENT, PROMOTION, AND INVOLUNTARY SEPARATION AND RETIREMENT FOR MEMBERS ON THE WARRANT OFFICER ACTIVE-DUTY LIST › § 583
Tells who counts as being in the promotion zone, above it, or below it, and what active-duty list is included. Promotion zone means a group of warrant officers on the active-duty list in the same rank (or the same rank and competitive category) who, for ranks below chief warrant officer, W–5, have not been passed over for promotion or taken off a recommended promotion list (except if they were placed on that list after being selected from below the promotion zone), and who are more senior than the junior officer the Secretary names as the lowest eligible member. Warrant officers above the promotion zone are officers in the same rank who are eligible for promotion and are senior to the top member of the promotion zone. Warrant officers below the promotion zone are officers in the same rank who are eligible for promotion and are junior to the lowest member of the promotion zone. The active-duty list mentioned in section 573(b) includes the active-duty promotion list created by section 41a of title 14.
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10 U.S.C. § 583
Title 10, Armed Forces
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Sep 23, 2026
Release point: 119-110