---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 20216"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "20216"
heading: "Reports of selection boards"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/20216"
units:
  - "Subtitle F — Alternative Military Personnel Systems"
  - "Part I — Space Force"
  - "Chapter 2005 — Officers"
  - "Subchapter II — Selection Boards"
---

# §20216. Reports of selection boards

- (a) **In General.—** Each selection board convened under [section 20211 of this title](/usc/10/20211.md) shall submit to the Secretary of the Air Force a written report, signed by each member of the board, containing a list of the names of the [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) it recommends for promotion and certifying—
  - (1) that the board has carefully considered the record of each [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) whose name was furnished to it under [section 615 of this title](/usc/10/615.md); and
  - (2) that, in the opinion of a majority of the members of the board, the [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) recommended for promotion by the board are best qualified for promotion to meet the needs of the Space Force (as noted in the guidelines or information furnished the board under [section 615(b) of this title](/usc/10/615.md?p=b)) among those [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) whose names were furnished to the selection board.
- (b) **Officers Who Should Be Required to Show Cause for Retention.—** A selection board convened under [section 20211 of this title](/usc/10/20211.md) shall include in its report the name of any [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) before it for consideration for promotion whose record, in the opinion of a majority of the members of the board, indicates that the [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) should be required under [section 20503 of this title](/usc/10/20503.md) to show cause for the [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1)’s retention in a [space force active status](/usc/10/101.md?p=e-1).
- (c) **Officers Recommended to Be Placed Higher on the Promotion List.—** A selection board convened under [section 20211 of this title](/usc/10/20211.md) shall, when authorized under [section 20215(g) of this title](/usc/10/20215.md?p=g), include in its report the names of those [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) recommended by the board to be placed higher on the promotion list and the order in which the board recommends that those [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) should be placed on the list.
- (d) **Recommendation for Officers to Be Excluded From Future Consideration for Promotion.—** A selection board convened under [section 20211 of this title](/usc/10/20211.md) may include in its report a recommendation that an [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) considered by the board be excluded from future consideration for promotion under this chapter.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 118–31, div. A, title XVII, § 1716(c), Dec. 22, 2023, 137 Stat. 637; amended Pub. L. 118–159, div. A, title V, § 521(p), Dec. 23, 2024, 138 Stat. 1882.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2024—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 118–159 substituted “20215(g)” for “20214(g)”.