---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 20253"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "20253"
heading: "Retirement: retirement for years of service"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/20253"
units:
  - "Subtitle F — Alternative Military Personnel Systems"
  - "Part I — Space Force"
  - "Chapter 2005 — Officers"
  - "Subchapter IV — Failure of Selection for Promotion and Involuntary Separation"
---

# §20253. Retirement: retirement for years of service


Sections [633](/usc/10/633.md) through [636](/usc/10/636.md) of this title shall apply to the retirement of [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) on the Space Force [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) list in the same manner as to [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) of the [Regular](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-12) Air Force.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 118–31, div. A, title XVII, § 1716(c), Dec. 22, 2023, 137 Stat. 653.)