§20104 Orders to Active Duty: with Consent of Member

Summary

Space Force members who are in active status but not on long-term duty, or who are in inactive status, can be ordered to go on active duty or kept on active duty if they agree. That can happen for four kinds of reasons that match rules used for reservists: being ordered at any time with consent, for medical or health-care needs, for health-care duty, or while waiting for a line-of-duty decision after a sexual assault. When ordered this way, those Space Force members follow the same nine related rules that apply to reservists ordered with consent. Those rules cover things like staying on duty after qualifying for retirement pay, using reserve officers to expand forces, release from active duty, types of duty, pay and funding, rank when ordered, and limits on assignments to ROTC units.