10 U.S.C. § 8135

Regular Marine Corps: order of filling vacancies in grade of second lieutenant

Vacancies on the active-duty list of the Marine Corps in the grade of second lieutenant shall be filled, so far as practicable, first, from members of the graduating class of the Naval Academy; second, from meritorious noncommissioned officers of the Regular Marine Corps; and third, from other persons.

( Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041 , 70A Stat. 324 , § 5585; Pub. L. 96–513, title V, § 503(29) , Dec. 12, 1980 , 94 Stat. 2913 ; renumbered § 8135, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 807(b)(4) , Aug. 13, 2018 , 132 Stat. 1834 .)