Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-102

§7320 More Than Thirty Years: Permanent Professors and the Director of Admissions of the United States Military Academy

Title 10 › Subtitle B — Army › PART II — PERSONNEL › CHAPTER 741 — RETIREMENT FOR LENGTH OF SERVICE › § 7320

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Army Secretary may retire commissioned officers who have more than 30 years of service if they are permanent professors at West Point or the Academy’s Admissions Director.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §7320

Armed Forces, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)The Secretary of the Army may retire an officer specified in subsection (b) who has more than 30 years of service as a commissioned officer.
(b)Subsection (a) applies in the case of the following officers:
(1)Any permanent professor of the United States Military Academy.
(2)The Director of Admissions of the United States Military Academy.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 392010:1079a(c) (proviso).Aug. 7, 1947, ch. 512, § 520(c) (proviso), 61 Stat. 912. The word “retire” is substituted for the words “direct the retirement of”. The words “as a commissioned officer” are substituted for the word “commissioned”.

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 7320 was renumbered section 8690 of this title.

Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 3920 of this title as this section. 1996—Pub. L. 104–106 substituted “permanent professors and the Director of Admissions of the United States Military Academy” for “permanent professors of United States Military Academy” in section catchline and amended text generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “The Secretary of the Army may retire any permanent professor of the United States Military Academy who has more than 30 years of service as a commissioned officer.”

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.

Reference

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Citation

10 U.S.C. § 7320

Title 10, Armed Forces

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102