The Fleet Reserve and the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve are composed of members of the naval service transferred thereto under this section. An enlisted member of the Regular Navy or the Navy Reserve who has completed 20 or more years of active service in the armed forces may, at his request, be transferred to the Fleet Reserve.
A job notice or advertisement may specify an age limit only in the rare circumstances where age is shown to be a bona fide occupational qualification (BFOQ) reasonably necessary to the normal operation of the business.
This Comment considers the BFOQ exception to the pro-. hibition of age discrimination as it is applied to the protective. service employee. The focal point of the BFOQ exception in-. quiry is the particular business.. Courts differ over whether. that term should be broadly or narrowly defined.