---
kind: "unit"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
key: "stA/ptII/ch35"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 35"
heading: "Temporary Appointments in Officer Grades"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/stA-ptII-ch35"
sections_count: 5
---

# Chapter 35 — Temporary Appointments in Officer Grades

Title 10 — Armed Forces › Subtitle A — General Military Law › Part II — Personnel

## Sections

- [§601. Positions of importance and responsibility: generals and lieutenant generals; admirals and vice admirals](/usc/10/601.md)
- [§602. Flexibility in determining terms of appointment for certain senior officer positions](/usc/10/602.md)
- [§603. Appointments in time of war or national emergency](/usc/10/603.md)
- [§604. Senior joint officer positions: recommendations to the Secretary of Defense](/usc/10/604.md)
- [§605. Promotion to certain grades for officers with critical skills: colonel, lieutenant colonel, major, captain; captain, commander, lieutenant commander, lieutenant](/usc/10/605.md)