special board
(1) Special board .— (A) The term “special board” means a board that the Secretary of a military department convenes under any authority to consider whether to recommend a person for appointment, enlistment, reenlistment, assignment, promotion, retention, separation, retirement, or transfer to inactive status in a reserve component, or the Space Force, instead of referring the records of that person for consideration by a previously convened selection board which considered or should have considered that person. (B) Such term includes a board for the correction of military records convened under section 1552 of this title , if designated as a special board by the Secretary concerned. (C) Such term does not include a promotion special selection board convened under section 628 , 14502 , or 20252 of this title .