---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 1432"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "1432"
heading: "Election of annuity: former members of armed forces"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/1432"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 73 — Annuities Based on Retired or Retainer Pay"
  - "Subchapter I — Retired Serviceman’s Family Protection Plan"
---

# §1432. Election of annuity: former members of armed forces


A [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) who was a former member of an armed force on November 1, 1953, and who is granted retired or retainer [pay](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-15) after that date, may, at the time he is granted that [pay](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-15), make an election as provided in [section 1431 of this title](/usc/10/1431.md).


## Source credit

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 109.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 1432 | 37:372(a) (5th sentence). | Aug. 8, 1953, ch. 393, § 3(a) (5th sentence), 67 Stat. 502. |