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[CITE: 10USC1039]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
              CHAPTER 53--MISCELLANEOUS RIGHTS AND BENEFITS
 
Sec. 1039. Crediting of minority service

    For the purpose of determining eligibility for retirement or 
transfer to the Fleet Reserve or Fleet Marine Corps Reserve, entitlement 
to retired or retainer pay, and years of service in computing retired or 
retainer pay of a member of the armed forces, any service which would be 
creditable but for the fact that it was performed by him under an 
enlistment or induction entered into before he attained the age 
prescribed by law for that enlistment or induction, shall be credited.

(Added Pub. L. 87-165, Sec. 1(1), Aug. 25, 1961, 75 Stat. 401.)


                             Effective Date

    Section 2 of Pub. L. 87-165 provided that: ``Section 1 [enacting 
this section] applies to service performed, and retirements or transfers 
to the Fleet Reserve or the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve effected, before 
and after this Act takes effect [Aug. 25, 1961].''
