Title 14, Coast GuardRelease 119-102
§2152 Voluntary Retirement After Twenty Years’ Service
Title 14 › SUBTITLE II — PERSONNEL › CHAPTER 21 — PERSONNEL; OFFICERS › SUBCHAPTER II — DISCHARGES; RETIREMENTS; REVOCATION OF COMMISSIONS; SEPARATION FOR CAUSE › § 2152
Summary
If a regular commissioned officer has finished 20 years of active service in the Coast Guard, Navy, Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, or their Reserve units (including active duty for training), they can apply to be retired from active duty. At least 10 of those years must be active commissioned service, and the President decides whether to approve the retirement.
Full Legal Text
Title 14, §2152
Coast Guard, Source: USLM XML via OLRC
Any regular commissioned officer who has completed twenty years’ active service in the Coast Guard, Navy, Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Space Force, or the Reserve components thereof, including active duty for training, at least ten years of which shall have been active commissioned service, may, upon his own application, in the discretion of the President, be retired from active service.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2021—Pub. L. 116–283 substituted “Marine Corps, or Space Force” for “or Marine Corps”. 2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 291 of this title as this section. 1986—Pub. L. 99–348 struck out “, with retired pay of the grade with which retired” after “from active service”.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Retired Pay on or Prior to September 24, 1963
Savings Provision
s in section 5(g) of Pub. L. 88–130 providing that Pub. L. 88–130 does not affect the retired pay of anyone retired on or prior to Sept. 24, 1963, are set out as a note under section 2101 of this title.
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Citation
14 U.S.C. § 2152
Title 14, Coast Guard
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102