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§8132 Regular Navy: transfers, line and staff corps

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Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Regular Navy officers at or below lieutenant commander may transfer between staff corps and the line at the same grade; moves into a staff corps must follow rules set by the Secretary of Defense.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §8132

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(a)A regular officer of the Navy in a staff corps in a grade not above lieutenant commander may be appointed in the line of the Navy to the same grade.
(b)A regular officer in the line of the Navy in a grade not above lieutenant commander may be appointed to the same grade in a staff corps under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 5582(a)34 U.S.C. 14 (less statement of appointing authority).
July 22, 1935, ch. 402, § 7 (less statement of appointing authority), 49 Stat. 490. 5582(b)34 U.S.C. 13 (less statement of appointing authority).
July 22, 1935, ch. 402, § 6 (less statement of appointing authority), 49 Stat. 490. The words “active list” are inserted so that this section will apply only to officers of the Regular Navy holding permanent appointments in grades above commissioned warrant officer, as this was the intent of the source statute. The words “same grade” are substituted for the words “corresponding rank and grade” in subsection (a) and for the words “corresponding grade” in subsection (b), since, under § 405 of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947 (34 U.S.C. 10a), the grades in the staff corps are the same as those in the line. The words “transfer and” and “transferred and” are omitted as surplusage. In subsection (a) the words “and precedence in the line” are omitted as surplusage. In subsection (b) reference to the

Construction

Corps is omitted because that corps was abolished by the Act of June 25, 1940, ch. 420, § 1, 54 Stat. 528. The word “male” is inserted in both subsections to limit their application to men. Authority to appoint women is covered in § 5590 of this title.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 5582 of this title as this section. 1980—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 96–513 substituted “A regular officer” for “Any male officer on the active list” and “in the line” for “to the active list in the line” and deleted provision assigning an officer so appointed the lineal position he would have held had he originally been appointed in and had he remained in the line and provision that such an officer was to be considered an additional number in each grade in which he served. Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 96–513 substituted “A regular officer” for “Any male officer on the active list” and “the same grade in a staff corps under

Regulations

prescribed by the Secretary of Defense” for “the active list of the Navy in the Supply Corps or the Civil Engineer Corps, in the same grade, without regard to his age.”

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2018 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of

Amendments

and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.

Effective Date

of 1980 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 96–513 effective Sept. 15, 1981, but the authority to prescribe

Regulations

under the amendment by Pub. L. 96–513 effective on Dec. 12, 1980, see section 701 of Pub. L. 96–513, set out as a note under section 101 of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

10 U.S.C. § 8132

Title 10Armed Forces

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

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