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(1) in subsection (b)(2), by inserting before the 
semicolon at the end the following: ‘‘, but not for more 
than 30 days’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(e)(1) If a transition period for an officer under sub-
section (b)(2) or (b)(4) exceeds the maximum period speci-
fied in that subsection, the officer shall revert to the officer’s 
permanent grade, effective on the day after the date on 
which that period is exceeded. 
‘‘(2) In each case in which the transition period for 
an officer under subsection (b)(2) exceeds 30 days, the Sec-
retary of Defense shall promptly submit to the Committee 
on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on 
Armed Services of the House of Representatives a report on 
the matter. The report shall include the following: 
‘‘(A) The officer’s name. 
‘‘(B) The date on which the transition period 
began and the date on which the 30-day limit was ex-
ceeded. 
‘‘(C) The former position of the officer and the 
position to which the officer has been ordered trans-
ferred. 
‘‘(D) The reason for extended transition to the 
position to which ordered transferred.
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‘‘(E) The date on which the officer reverted to the 
officer’s permanent grade pursuant to paragraph (1). 
’’. 
(c) PROHIBITION OF FROCKING TO GRADES ABOVE 
MAJOR GENERAL AND REAR ADMIRAL.—Section 777(a) of 
such title is amended by inserting ‘‘in a grade below the 
grade of major general or, in the case of the Navy, rear 
admiral,’’ after ‘‘An officer’’ in the first sentence. 
SEC. 505. CONSOLIDATION OF GRADE LIMITATIONS ON OF-
FICER ASSIGNMENT AND INSIGNIA PRACTICE 
KNOWN AS FROCKING. 
Section 777(d) of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘brigadier generals and 
Navy rear admirals (lower half)’’ and inserting 
‘‘colonels, Navy captains, brigadier generals, and 
rear admirals (lower half)’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘the grade of’’ and all that 
follows through ‘‘30’’ and inserting ‘‘the next 
higher grade may not exceed 85’’; 
(2) by striking paragraph (2); and 
(3) by redesignating paragraph (3) as para-
graph (2).
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SEC. 506. AUTHORITY FOR DESIGNATION OF A GENERAL/ 
FLAG OFFICER POSITION ON THE JOINT 
STAFF TO BE HELD BY RESERVE COMPONENT 
GENERAL OR FLAG OFFICER ON ACTIVE 
DUTY. 
Section 526(b)(2)(A) of title 10, United States Code, 
is amended by inserting ‘‘, and a general and flag officer 
position on the Joint Staff,’’ after ‘‘combatant commands’’. 
SEC. 507. AUTHORITY TO RETAIN PERMANENT PROFES-
SORS AT THE NAVAL ACADEMY BEYOND 30 
YEARS OF ACTIVE COMMISSIONED SERVICE. 
(a) WAIVER OF MANDATORY RETIREMENT FOR YEARS 
OF SERVICE.— 
(1) 
LIEUTENANT
COLONELS
AND
COM-
MANDERS.—Section 633 of title 10, United States 
Code, is amended— 
(A) by striking ‘‘Except an’’ and all that 
follows through ‘‘except as provided’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘(a) 28 YEARS OF ACTIVE COMMISSIONED 
SERVICE.—Except as provided in subsection (b) 
and as provided’’; 
(B) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(b) EXCEPTIONS.—Subsection (a) does not apply to 
the following:
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‘‘(1) An officer of the Navy or Marine Corps who 
is an officer designated for limited duty to whom sec-
tion 5596(e) or 6383 of this title applies. 
‘‘(2) An officer of the Navy or Marine Corps who 
is a permanent professor at the United States Naval 
Academy.’’. 
(2) COLONELS
AND
NAVY
CAPTAINS.—Section 
634 of title 10, United States Code, is amended— 
(A) by striking ‘‘Except an’’ and all that 
follows through ‘‘except as provided’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘(a) 30 YEARS OF ACTIVE COMMISSIONED 
SERVICE.—Except as provided in subsection (b) 
and as provided’’; 
(B) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(b) EXCEPTIONS.—Subsection (a) does not apply to 
the following: 
‘‘(1) An officer of the Navy who is designated for 
limited duty to whom section 6383(a)(4) of this title 
applies. 
‘‘(2) An officer of the Navy or Marine Corps who 
is a permanent professor at the United States Naval 
Academy.’’. 
(b) AUTHORITY FOR RETENTION OF PERMANENT PRO-
FESSORS BEYOND 30 YEARS.—
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(1) AUTHORITY.—Chapter 573 of such title is 
amended by inserting after section 6371 the following 
new section: 
‘‘§ 6372. Permanent professors of the United States 
Naval Academy: retirement for years of 
service; authority for deferral 
‘‘(a) RETIREMENT FOR YEARS OF SERVICE.—(1) Ex-
cept as provided in subsection (b), an officer of the Navy 
or Marine Corps serving as a permanent professor at the 
Naval Academy in the grade of commander or lieutenant 
colonel who is not on a list of officers recommended for pro-
motion to the grade of captain or colonel, as the case may 
be, shall, if not earlier retired, be retired on the first day 
of the month after the month in which the officer completes 
28 years of active commissioned service. 
‘‘(2) Except as provided in subsection (b), an officer 
of the Navy or Marine Corps serving as a permanent pro-
fessor at the Naval Academy in the grade of captain or colo-
nel who is not on a list of officers recommended for pro-
motion to the grade of rear admiral (lower half) or briga-
dier general, as the case may be, shall, if not earlier retired, 
be retired on the first day of the month after the month 
in which the officer completes 30 years of active commis-
sioned service.