---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 622"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "622"
heading: "Numbers to be recommended for promotion"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/622"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 36 — Promotion, Separation, and Involuntary Retirement of Officers on the Active-Duty List"
  - "Subchapter II — Promotions"
---

# §622. Numbers to be recommended for promotion


Before convening a selection board under [section 611(a) of this title](/usc/10/611.md?p=a) for any [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7) and competitive category, the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of the [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) [department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) concerned, under regulations prescribed by the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense, shall determine (1) the number of positions needed to accomplish mission objectives which require [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) of such competitive category in the [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7) to which the board will recommend [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) for promotion, (2) the estimated number of [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) needed to fill vacancies in such positions during the period in which it is anticipated that [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) selected for promotion will be promoted, and (3) the number of [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) authorized by the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of the [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) [department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) concerned to serve on [active duty](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-1) in the [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7) and competitive category under consideration. Based on such determinations, the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of the [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) [department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) concerned shall determine the maximum number of [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) in such competitive category which the selection board may recommend for promotion.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 96–513, title I, § 105, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2856.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Sept. 15, 1981, but the authority to prescribe regulations under this section effective on Dec. 12, 1980, see section 701 of Pub. L. 96–513, set out as an Effective Date of 1980 Amendment note under section 101 of this title.