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[CITE: 10USC635]

 
                         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. 635. Retirement for years of service: regular brigadier 
        generals and rear admirals (lower half)
        
    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 brigadier general, and each officer of the 
Regular Navy who holds the regular grade of rear admiral (lower half), 
who is not on a list of officers recommended for promotion to the 
regular grade of major general or rear admiral, respectively, shall, if 
not earlier retired, be retired on the first day of the first month 
beginning after the date of the fifth anniversary of his appointment to 
that grade or on the first day of the month after the month in which he 
completes 30 years of active commissioned service, whichever is later.

(Added Pub. L. 96-513, title I. Sec. 105, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2863; 
amended Pub. L. 97-86, title IV, Sec. 405(b)(1), (5)(A), Dec. 1, 1981, 
95 Stat. 1105, 1106; 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), (5)(A), 
Nov. 8, 1985, 99 Stat. 628.)


                               Amendments

    1985--Pub. L. 99-145 substituted ``rear admirals (lower half)'' for 
``commodores'' in section catchline and ``rear admiral (lower half)'' 
for ``commodore'' in text.
    1984--Pub. L. 98-525 substituted ``30'' for ``thirty''.
    1981--Pub. L. 97-86 substituted ``commodores'' for ``commodore 
admirals'' in section catchline and ``commodore'' for ``commodore 
admiral'' in text.


                    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.
