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[CITE: 10USC633]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
    CHAPTER 36--PROMOTION, SEPARATION, AND INVOLUNTARY RETIREMENT OF 
                    OFFICERS ON THE ACTIVE-DUTY LIST
 
 SUBCHAPTER III--FAILURE OF SELECTION FOR PROMOTION AND RETIREMENT FOR 
                            YEARS OF SERVICE
 
Sec. 633. Retirement for years of service: regular lieutenant 
        colonels and commanders
        
    Except an officer of the Navy or Marine Corps who is an officer 
designated for limited duty to whom section 5596(e) or 6383 of this 
title applies and except as provided under section 637(b) of this title, 
each officer of the Regular Army, Regular Air Force, or Regular Marine 
Corps who holds the regular grade of lieutenant colonel, and each 
officer of the Regular Navy who holds the regular grade of commander, 
who is not on a list of officers recommended for promotion to the 
regular grade of colonel or captain, respectively, shall, if not earlier 
retired, be retired on the first day of the month after the month in 
which he completes 28 years of active commissioned service.

(Added Pub. L. 96-513, title I, Sec. 105, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2862; 
amended Pub. L. 98-525, title V, Sec. 529(b), title XIV, Sec. 1405(12), 
Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2526, 2622; Pub. L. 102-484, div. A, title V, 
Sec. 504(a), Oct. 23, 1992, 106 Stat. 2403; Pub. L. 103-160, div. A, 
title V, Sec. 561(e), Nov. 30, 1993, 107 Stat. 1667; Pub. L. 105-261, 
div. A, title V, Sec. 504(a), Oct. 17, 1998, 112 Stat. 2004.)


                               Amendments

    1998--Pub. L. 105-261 substituted ``Except an officer of the Navy or 
Marine Corps who is an officer designated for limited duty to whom 
section 5596(e) or 6383 of this title applies'' for ``Except an officer 
of the Navy designated for limited duty to whom section 5596(e) of this 
title applies and an officer of the Marine Corps designated for limited 
duty to whom section 5596(e) or section 6383 of this title applies'' and 
struck out at end ``During the period beginning on July 1, 1993, and 
ending on October 1, 1999, the preceding sentence shall not apply to an 
officer of the Navy designated for limited duty to whom section 6383 of 
this title applies.''
    1993--Pub. L. 103-160 substituted ``October 1, 1999'' for ``October 
1, 1995''.
    1992--Pub. L. 102-484 inserted at end ``During the period beginning 
on July 1, 1993, and ending on October 1, 1995, the preceding sentence 
shall not apply to an officer of the Navy designated for limited duty to 
whom section 6383 of this title applies.''
    1984--Pub. L. 98-525, Sec. 1405(12), substituted ``28'' for 
``twenty-eight''.
    Pub. L. 98-525, Sec. 529(b), substituted ``Except an officer of the 
Navy designated for limited duty to whom section 5596(e) of this title 
applies and an officer of the Marine Corps designated for limited duty 
to whom section 5596(e) or section 6383 of this title applies'' for 
``Except an officer of the Navy and Marine Corps who is an officer 
designated for limited duty (to whom section 5596(e) or 6383 of this 
title applies)''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 637, 1401, 1406 of this 
title.
