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 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 undersection 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.