---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 579"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "579"
heading: "Removal from a promotion list"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/579"
units:
  - "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"
---

# §579. Removal from a promotion list

- (a) The name of a [warrant officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-3) recommended for promotion by a selection board convened under this chapter may be removed from the report of the selection board by the President.
- (b) The [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/2801.md?p=c-5) may remove the name of a [warrant officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-3) who is on a promotion list as a result of being recommended for promotion by a selection board convened under this chapter at any time before the promotion is effective.
- (c) An [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) whose name is removed from the list of [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) recommended for promotion by a selection board continues to be eligible for consideration for promotion.
- (d) If the next selection board that considers the [warrant officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-3) for promotion under this chapter selects the [warrant officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-3) for promotion and the [warrant officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-3) is promoted, the [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/2801.md?p=c-5) may, upon his promotion, grant him the same effective date for [pay](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-15) and allowances and the same date of [rank](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-8), and the same position on the [warrant officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-3) [active-duty list](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-13) as the [warrant officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-3) would have had if his name had not been so removed.
- (e) If the next selection board does not select the [warrant officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-3) for promotion, or if his name is again removed under [subsection (a)](#a) from the list of [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) recommended for promotion by the selection board or under [subsection (b)](#b) from the [warrant officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-3) promotion list, he shall be treated for all purposes as if he has twice failed of selection for promotion.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 102–190, div. A, title XI, § 1112(a), Dec. 5, 1991, 105 Stat. 1497.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 562 of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 102–190, § 1112(a).

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Feb. 1, 1992, see section 1132 of Pub. L. 102–190, set out as an Effective Date of 1991 Amendment note under section 521 of this title.