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The Secretary concerned must establish funded graduate education programs that:
- assess graduate education program posture to ensure highly qualified officers are developed and maintained in fields that fulfill present needs, anticipated requirements, or future capabilities
- validate positions that require incumbents with graduate education and program utilization tours for those officers who hold or are pursuing graduate degrees as the result of fully or partially funded programs
- assign officers who receive fully or partially funded graduate education to validated positions as soon as practical
- audits the graduate education programs of the Service concerned and provides assessments to the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness
- require officers who receive a fully or partially funded graduate education and who, voluntarily or because of misconduct, fail to complete the period of Active Duty obligation specified in return for that educational opportunity, to reimburse the United States
- require officers who received fully or partially funded graduate education and who fail to earn a graduate degree of the level and discipline for which they were selected, or fail to obtain another validated graduate degree permitted by the Service, serve on Active Duty for a required time period
- allow officers to pursue a graduate degree through a partially funded education program for up to twelve consecutive months without an obligation for assignment to a designated billet |