---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 20107"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "20107"
heading: "Transfer to inactive status: initial service obligation not complete"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/20107"
units:
  - "Subtitle F — Alternative Military Personnel Systems"
  - "Part I — Space Force"
  - "Chapter 2003 — Status and Participation"
---

# §20107. Transfer to inactive status: initial service obligation not complete

- (a) **General Rule.—** A member of the Space Force who has not completed the required minimum service obligation referred to in [section 20003 of this title](/usc/10/20003.md) shall, if terminating [space force active status](/usc/10/101.md?p=e-1), be transferred to a [space force inactive status](/usc/10/101.md?p=e-2) and, unless otherwise designated an Individual Ready Guardian under [section 20102 of this title](/usc/10/20102.md), shall remain subject to order to [active duty](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-1) without the member’s consent under [section 20106 of this title](/usc/10/20106.md).
- (b) **Exception.—** [Subsection (a)](#a) does not apply to a member who is separated from the Space Force by the Secretary of the Air Force under [section 20503 of this title](/usc/10/20503.md).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 118–31, div. A, title XVII, § 1715, Dec. 22, 2023, 137 Stat. 630.)