---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 649i"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "649i"
heading: "Continuation on active duty: officers in certain military specialties and career tracks"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/649i"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 36 — Promotion, Separation, and Involuntary Retirement of Officers on the Active-Duty List"
  - "Subchapter VI — Alternative Promotion Authority for Officers in Designated Competitive Categories"
---

# §649i. Continuation on active duty: officers in certain military specialties and career tracks


In addition to continuation on [active duty](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-1) provided for in [section 649h of this title](/usc/10/649h.md), an [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) to whom [section 637a of this title](/usc/10/637a.md) applies may be continued on [active duty](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-1) in accordance with the provisions of such section 637a.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title V, § 507(a)(1), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1748.)