(A) Brigadier General selection board-As required by Federal Personnel Acts, a board must be established by the Governor for the purpose of selecting qualified officers of the next lower grade to fill brigadier general officer vacancies in the South Carolina Army National Guard. The board shall consist of three general officers; composed of the Adjutant General and the active general officers of the South Carolina Army National Guard and, if necessary, the number of recently retired active general officers of the South Carolina Army National Guard necessary to constitute the board.

(B) Colonels-As required by Federal Personnel Acts, a board must be established by the Adjutant General for the purpose of selecting qualified officers of the next lower grade to fill colonel vacancies in the South Carolina Army National Guard. This board shall consist of the five senior officers of the South Carolina Army National Guard, to include not over one officer from the state headquarters or one professional officer.

HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 44-66; 1964 (53) 2241; 2011 Act No. 46, Section 9, eff June 7, 2011.

Effect of Amendment

The 2011 amendment redesignated subsections (a) and (b) as subsections (A) and (B); in subsections (A) and (B), inserted "As required by Federal Personnel Acts,"; in subsection (B), in the first sentence, substituted "board must" for "board shall", and in the second sentence, substituted "board shall" for "board will"; and made another nonsubstantive change.