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Executive Order 11684—Amendment of Executive Order No. 11554, Suspending the Provisions of Section 5707(c) of Title 10, United States Code, Which Relate to Promotion of Navy and Marine Corps Officers

August 30, 1972

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 5711 (b) of title 10, United States Code, Executive Order No. 11554 of August 29, 1970, is amended to read as follows:

"The operation of so much of the provisions of section 5707(c) of title 10 of the United States Code as restrict, to a percentage of five percent of the total number of officers that a board is authorized to recommend for promotion, the number of Navy and Marine Corps officers below the appropriate promotion zone who may be recommended as best fitted for promotion to the grade concerned, is hereby suspended until June 30, 1974."

RICHARD NIXON

The White House,

August 30, 1972

Richard Nixon, Executive Order 11684—Amendment of Executive Order No. 11554, Suspending the Provisions of Section 5707(c) of Title 10, United States Code, Which Relate to Promotion of Navy and Marine Corps Officers Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/307007

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