14 USC § 2152 - Voluntary retirement after twenty years’ service

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title: "14 USC § 2152 - Voluntary retirement after twenty years’ service"
title_number: 14
title_name: "COAST GUARD"
section_number: "2152"
section_name: "Voluntary retirement after twenty years’ service"
chapter_number: 21
chapter_name: "PERSONNEL; OFFICERS"
subchapter_number: "II"
subchapter_name: "DISCHARGES; RETIREMENTS; REVOCATION OF COMMISSIONS; SEPARATION FOR CAUSE"
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last_updated: "2026-03-26"
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source_credit: "(Added Pub. L. 88–130, § 1(10)(C), Sept. 24, 1963, 77 Stat. 187, § 291; amended Pub. L. 99–348, title II, § 205(b)(5), July 1, 1986, 100 Stat. 700; renumbered § 2152, Pub. L. 115–282, title I, § 112(b), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4216; Pub. L. 116–283, div. A, title IX, § 927(b)(1), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 3831.)"
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# § 2152. Voluntary retirement after twenty years’ service

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.

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**Source Credit**: (Added Pub. L. 88–130, § 1(10)(C), Sept. 24, 1963, 77 Stat. 187, § 291; amended Pub. L. 99–348, title II, § 205(b)(5), July 1, 1986, 100 Stat. 700; renumbered § 2152, Pub. L. 115–282, title I, § 112(b), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4216; Pub. L. 116–283, div. A, title IX, § 927(b)(1), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 3831.)

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2021— substituted “Marine Corps, or Space Force” for “or Marine Corps”.

2018— renumbered  as this section.

1986— 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 provisions in  providing that  does not affect the retired pay of anyone retired on or prior to , are set out as a note under .