PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

If a service member is retired for a physical disability, they must be given the highest retired rank from four options, unless another law gives them a higher retired rank. The four options are: the rank they held when placed on the temporary disability retired list or when retired; the highest temporary rank they served in satisfactorily, as decided by the Secretary of their service; the permanent regular or reserve rank they would have been promoted to if the disability found by a medical exam had not stopped the promotion; or the temporary rank they would have been promoted to if that promotion depended on years of service and the disability was found by a medical exam.

Title 10, §1372

Armed Forces, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

Unless entitled to a higher retired grade under some other provision of law, any member of an armed force who is retired for physical disability under section 1201 or 1204 of this title, or whose name is placed on the temporary disability retired list under section 1202 or 1205 of this title, is entitled to the grade equivalent to the highest of the following:

(1)The grade or rank in which he is serving on the date when his name is placed on the temporary disability retired list or, if his name was not carried on that list, on the date when he is retired.

(2)The highest temporary grade or rank in which he served satisfactorily, as determined by the Secretary of the armed force from which he is retired.

(3)The permanent regular or reserve grade to which he would have been promoted had it not been for the physical disability for which he is retired and which was found to exist as a result of a physical examination.

(4)The temporary grade to which he would have been promoted had it not been for the physical disability for which he is retired, if eligibility for that promotion was required to be based on cumulative years of service or years of service in grade and the disability was discovered as a result of a physical examination.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 137237:272(d) (104th through 128th words, as applicable to retired grade; and 2d and 5th provisos).37:279 (less applicability to 37:272(d) (last proviso)).Oct. 12, 1949, ch. 681, §§ 402(d) (104th through 128th words, as applicable to retired grade; and 2d and 5th provisos), 409 (less applicability to § 402(d) (last proviso)), 63 Stat. 818, 823. Clause (1) is substituted for 37:272(d) (104th through 128th words, as applicable to retired grade). The words “if his name was not carried on that list” are substituted for the words “whichever is earlier”.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1996—Pars. (3), (4). Pub. L. 104–201 substituted “a physical examination” for “his physical examination for promotion”.

§1372 Grade on Retirement for Physical Disability: Members of Armed Forces