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Chapter 32 — Officer strength and distribution in grade; Chapter 33 — Original appointments of regular officers in grades above warrant officer grades; Chapter 33A — Appointment, promotion, and involuntary separation and retirement for members on the warrant officer active-duty list; Chapter 34 — Appointments as reserve officers
The vice chief of the National Guard Bureau (VCNGB) was created in 1988 to play the same role for the National Guard as the vice chiefs of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, who all had the same four-star grade as their respective service chiefs. The VCNGB was likewise intended to carry the same three-star grade as the chief of the ...
DOPMA standardized four-star appointments across all services, replacing the previous service-specific mechanisms. Under the Officer Personnel Act, four-star officers held that grade ex officio while serving in a position of importance and responsibility designated to carry that grade, and upon vacating that position reverted to two-star major general or rear admiral, the highest permanent ...
The Joint Chiefs of Staff in May 2024. Clockwise from left: George, Smith, Franchetti, Allvin, Saltzman, Hokanson, Grady, and Brown. Although four-star officers appeared in organizations like the Continental Army before the United States of America was founded in 1776, the legislative history of four-star officers in the United States uniformed services began in 1799, when Congress authorized ...
Officers of the United States Air Force take the following oath: [4]. I, (state your name), having been appointed a (rank) in the United States Air Force, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, Foreign and domestic, that I bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any ...
Raised statutory rank of the directors of the Army National Guard and Air National Guard, under standard promotion procedures, to lieutenant general (Roger C. Schultz). Repealed special requirement for senior reserve component officers, [ai] per Section 12505 of Title 10, for appointment to grade of lieutenant general or vice admiral.
In some years, ECP officers constituted over 60% of all ROTC second lieutenants. [5] The program is a major financial incentive for students who could receive their commissions early and serve as officers while still attending college. In 1984, the California Guard received 95% (74 out of 78) of its ROTC lieutenants from the ECP program.
Congressionally-imposed limits on the size of the Army officer corps, an extremely low turnover (resignations, retirements, and dismissals), and a "hump" of over-age officers in the middle grades caused by aborted provisions in the National Defense Act of 1920 caused a significant logjam in promotions during the interwar period.