---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 20242"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "20242"
heading: "Authority to vacate promotions to grade of brigadier general"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/20242"
units:
  - "Subtitle F — Alternative Military Personnel Systems"
  - "Part I — Space Force"
  - "Chapter 2005 — Officers"
  - "Subchapter III — Promotions"
---

# §20242. Authority to vacate promotions to grade of brigadier general

- (a) **Authority.—** The President may vacate the appointment of a Space Force [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) to the [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7) of brigadier general if the period of time during which the [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) has served in that [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7) after promotion to that [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7) is less than 18 months.
- (b) **Effect of Promotion Being Vacated.—** An [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) whose promotion to the [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7) of brigadier general is vacated under this section holds the [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7) of colonel. Upon assuming the [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7) of colonel under this section, the [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) shall have the same position on the Space Force [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) list as the [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) would have had if the [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) had not served in the higher [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 118–31, div. A, title XVII, § 1716(c), Dec. 22, 2023, 137 Stat. 648.)