---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 750"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "750"
heading: "Command: retired officers"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/750"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 43 — Rank and Command"
---

# §750. Command: retired officers


A retired [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) has no right to command except when on [active duty](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-1).


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 96–513, title I, § 108, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2870.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Sept. 15, 1981, but the authority to prescribe regulations under this section effective on Dec. 12, 1980, see section 701 of Pub. L. 96–513, set out as an Effective Date of 1980 Amendment note under section 101 of this title.