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[CITE: 10USC634]

 
                         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. 634. Retirement for years of service: regular colonels and 
        Navy captains
        
    Except an officer of the Navy who is designated for limited duty to 
whom section 6383(a)(4) 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 colonel, and each officer of the Regular Navy who holds the regular 
grade of captain, who is not on a list of officers recommended for 
promotion to the regular grade of brigadier general or rear admiral 
(lower half), respectively, shall, if not earlier retired, be retired on 
the first day of the month after the month in which he completes 30 
years of active commissioned service.

(Added Pub. L. 96-513, title I, Sec. 105, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2862; 
amended Pub. L. 97-86, title IV, Sec. 405(b)(1), Dec. 1, 1981, 95 Stat. 
1105; Pub. L. 98-525, title XIV, Sec. 1405(13), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 
2622; Pub. L. 99-145, title V, Sec. 514(b)(1), Nov. 8, 1985, 99 Stat. 
628; Pub. L. 102-484, div. A, title V, Sec. 504(b), 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(b), 
Oct. 17, 1998, 112 Stat. 2004.)


                               Amendments

    1998--Pub. L. 105-261 inserted ``an officer of the Navy who is 
designated for limited duty to whom section 6383(a)(4) of this title 
applies and except'' after ``Except'' 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 Regular Navy 
designated for limited duty to whom section 6383(a)(4) 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 Regular Navy designated for limited 
duty to whom section 6383(a)(4) of this title applies.''
    1985--Pub. L. 99-145 substituted ``rear admiral (lower half)'' for 
``commodore''.
    1984--Pub. L. 98-525 substituted ``30'' for ``thirty''.
    1981--Pub. L. 97-86 substituted ``commodore'' for ``commodore 
admiral''.


                    Effective Date of 1981 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 97-86 effective Sept. 15, 1981, see section 
405(f) of Pub. L. 97-86, set out as a note under section 101 of this 
title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

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