### Question
How is the term special board defined?


### Answer
The term **special board** is defined in *10 U.S.C. § 1558* as the following:

> 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

#### Citation:
  - *10 U.S.C. § 1558*
  - Heading: **Subtitle A-General Military Law > PART II-PERSONNEL > CHAPTER 79-CORRECTION OF MILITARY RECORDS**

