94 STAT. 2864
Involuntary retirement or discharge. Deferred retirement.
Post, p. 2875. Secretary's approval.
Regulations. 10 USC 638.
PUBLIC LAW 96-513—DEC. 12, 1980
"(4) An officer who is selected for continuation on active duty under this subsection but declines to continue on active duty shall be discharged, retired, or retained on active duty, as appropriate, in accordance with section 632 of this title. "(5) Each officer who is continued on active duty under this subsection, is not subsequently promoted or continued on active duty, and is not on a list of officers recommended for continuation or for promotion to the next higher regular grade shall, unless sooner retired or discharged under another provision of law— "(A) be discharged upon the expiration of his period of continued service; or "(B) if he is eligible for retirement under any provision of law, be retired under that law on the first day of the first month following the month in which he completes his period of continued service. Notwithstanding the provisions of clause (A), any officer who would otherwise be discharged under such clause and is within two years of qualifying for retirement under section 3911, 6323, or 8911 of this title, shall, unless he is sooner retired or discharged under some other provision of law, be retained on active duty until he is qualified for retirement under that section and then be retired. "(6) The retirement or discharge of an officer pursuant to this subsection shall be considered to be an involuntary retirement or discharge for purposes of any other provision of law. "(b)(1) An officer subject to retirement under section 633, 634, 635, or 636 of this title may, subject to the needs of the service, have his retirement deferred and be continued on active duty if he is selected for continuation on active duty by a selection board convened under section 611(b) of this title. "(2) An officer subject to retirement under section 635 or 636 of this title who is serving in a grade above major general or rear admiral may, subject to the needs of the service, have his retirement deferred and be continued on active duty by the President. "(3) Any deferral of retirement and continuation on active duty under this subsection shall be for a period not to exceed five years, but such period may not (except as provided under section 1251(b) of this title) extend beyond the date of the officer's sixty-second birthday. "(c) Continuation of an officer on active duty under this section pursuant to the action of a selection board convened under section 611(b) of this title is subject to the approval of the Secretary of the military department concerned. "(d) The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe regulations for the administration of this section. "§638. Selective early retirement "(a) A regular officer on the active-duty list of the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps— "(1) who holds the regular grade of lieutenant colonel or commander and has failed of selection for promotion to the grade of colonel or, in the case of an officer of the Navy, captain two or more times and whose name is not on a list of officers recommended for promotion; "(2) who holds the regular grade of colonel or, in the case of an officer of the Navy, captain and has served at least four years of active duty in that grade and whose name is not on a list of officers recommended for promotion; "(3) who holds the regular grade of brigadier general or commodore admiral and has served at least four years of active
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