Executive Order 11799—Amending Executive Order No. 11554 as it Relates to the Establishment of a Maximum Percentage of Navy and Marine Corps Officers Who May be Recommended for Promotion from Below the Appropriate Promotion Zone

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 5 711 (b) of title 10 of the United States Code, Executive Order No. 11554 of August 29, 1970, as amended, is amended to read as follows:

"The operation of so much of the provisions of section 5 707 (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, 1976."

GERALD R. FORD

The White House,

August 17, 1974.