---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 20261"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "20261"
heading: "Selection of officers for continuation on the Space Force officer list"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/20261"
units:
  - "Subtitle F — Alternative Military Personnel Systems"
  - "Part I — Space Force"
  - "Chapter 2005 — Officers"
  - "Subchapter V — Continuation on Active Duty and Selective Early Retirement; Other Provisions"
---

# §20261. Selection of officers for continuation on the Space Force officer list


[Section 14701 of this title](/usc/10/14701.md) shall apply in continuation or retention on the Space Force [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) in the same manner as to continuation on the [reserve active-status list](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-7).


## Source credit

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