---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 1252"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "1252"
heading: "Age 64: permanent professors at academies"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/1252"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 63 — Retirement for Age"
---

# §1252. Age 64: permanent professors at academies

- (a) **Mandatory Retirement for Age.—** Unless retired or separated earlier, each [regular](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-12) [commissioned officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-2) of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Space Force covered by [subsection (b)](#b) shall be retired on the first day of the month following the month in which the [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) becomes 64 years of age.
- (b) **Covered Officers.—** This section applies to the following [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1):
  - (1) An [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) who is a permanent professor or the director of admissions of the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) [Military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) Academy.
  - (2) An [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) who is a permanent professor at the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) Naval Academy.
  - (3) An [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) who is a permanent professor or the registrar of the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) Air Force Academy.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 109–163, div. A, title V, § 509(c)(1), Jan. 6, 2006, 119 Stat. 3230; amended Pub. L. 116–283, div. A, title IX, § 924(b)(3)(U), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 3821.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2021—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 116–283 substituted “Marine Corps, or Space Force” for “or Marine Corps”.