10 U.S.C. § 8132

Regular Navy: transfers, line and staff corps

(a)

A regular officer of the Navy in a staff corps in a grade not above lieutenant commander may be appointed in the line of the Navy to the same grade.

(b)

A regular officer in the line of the Navy in a grade not above lieutenant commander may be appointed to the same grade in a staff corps under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense.

( Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041 , 70A Stat. 324 , § 5582; Pub. L. 96–513, title III, § 373(d) , Dec. 12, 1980 , 94 Stat. 2903 ; renumbered § 8132, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 807(b)(4) , Aug. 13, 2018 , 132 Stat. 1834 .)