--- kind: "section" citation: "10 U.S.C. § 8331" title: "10" title_heading: "Armed Forces" number: "8331" heading: "Members of the Fleet Reserve and Fleet Marine Corps Reserve: transfer to the retired list; retired pay" release: "119-102" date: "2026-07-12" url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/8331" units: - "Subtitle C — Navy and Marine Corps" - "Part II — Personnel" - "Chapter 841 — Voluntary Retirement" --- # §8331. Members of the Fleet Reserve and Fleet Marine Corps Reserve: transfer to the retired list; retired pay - (a) When he has completed 30 years of service, or when he is found not physically qualified in an examination under [section 8385 of this title](/usc/10/8385.md), a member of the Fleet [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) or the Fleet [Marine Corps](/usc/10/8001.md?p=a-2) [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) shall be transferred— - (1) to the retired list of the [Regular](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-12) [Navy](/usc/10/8001.md?p=a-1) or the [Regular](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-12) [Marine Corps](/usc/10/8001.md?p=a-2), as appropriate, if he was a member of the [Regular](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-12) [Navy](/usc/10/8001.md?p=a-1) or the [Regular](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-12) [Marine Corps](/usc/10/8001.md?p=a-2) at the time of his transfer to the Fleet [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) or the Fleet [Marine Corps](/usc/10/8001.md?p=a-2) [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6); or - (2) to the appropriate Retired [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6), if he was a member of the [Navy](/usc/10/8001.md?p=a-1) [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) or the [Marine Corps](/usc/10/8001.md?p=a-2) [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) at the time of his transfer to the Fleet [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) or the Fleet [Marine Corps](/usc/10/8001.md?p=a-2) [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6). - (b) For the purpose of [subsection (a)](#a), a member’s years of service are computed by adding— - (1) the years of service credited to him upon his transfer to the Fleet [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) or the Fleet [Marine Corps](/usc/10/8001.md?p=a-2) [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6); - (2) his years of active and inactive service in the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4) before his transfer to the Fleet [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) or the Fleet [Marine Corps](/usc/10/8001.md?p=a-2) [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) not credited to him upon that transfer; and - (3) his years of service, active and inactive, in the Fleet [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) or the Fleet [Marine Corps](/usc/10/8001.md?p=a-2) [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6). - (c) Unless otherwise entitled to higher [pay](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-15), each member transferred to the retired list or the Retired [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) under this section is entitled to retired [pay](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-15) at the same [rate](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-9) as the retainer [pay](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-15) to which he was entitled at the time of his transfer to the retired list or the Retired [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6). ## Source credit (Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 397, § 6331; Pub. L. 85–583, § 1(4–6), Aug. 1, 1958, 72 Stat. 480; Pub. L. 109–163, div. A, title V, § 515(b)(1)(K), Jan. 6, 2006, 119 Stat. 3233; renumbered § 8331 and amended Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, §§ 807(b)(15), 809(a), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1836, 1840.) ## Notes | Historical and Revision Notes | | | | --- | --- | --- | | Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) | | 6331 | 34 U.S.C. 854c (4th proviso). | June 25, 1938, ch. 690, § 204 (4th proviso), 52 Stat. 1179; Aug. 10, 1946, ch. 952, § 2, 60 Stat. 993. | | | 34 U.S.C. 854e (2d and 4th provisos). | June 25, 1938, ch. 690, § 206 (2d and 4th provisos), 52 Stat. 1179; Apr. 25, 1940, ch. 153, 54 Stat. 162. | | | 34 U.S.C. 854 (note). | July 9, 1952, ch. 608, § 803 (3d sentence), 66 Stat. 505. | In subsection (a) the words “transferred * * * in accordance with the provisions of this section and of sections 853 and 854b of this title”, in the fourth proviso of 34 U.S.C. 854c, and the words “transferred after sixteen years’ or more service in the Regular Navy”, and “men coming under the cognizance of sections 853 and 854b of this title”, in the second proviso of 34 U.S.C. 854e, are omitted as surplusage since the classes designated by these phrases comprise all members of the Fleet Reserve and Fleet Marine Corps Reserve. Subsection (b) is worded so as to cover all members of the Fleet Reserve and the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve regardless of the law under which they attained that status. A member transferring under 34 U.S.C. 854b may count only active naval service in computing the service required for that transfer, but in determining his eligibility for retirement he may add to his active naval service all previous active or inactive service in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, or Coast Guard, and his time in the Fleet Reserve. A member transferring to the Fleet Reserve under 34 U.S.C. 854c may count active service in any armed force toward that transfer, and he determines his eligibility for retirement by adding to the service credited to him at the time of transfer any previous inactive service in the armed forces and his time in the Fleet Reserve. As to the latter member the words “active service” in clause (2) are superfluous, since such service would have been credited to him upon his transfer to the Fleet Reserve, but they are needed in the case of a member transferred under 34 U.S.C. 854b. In subsection (c) references to the “allowances to which enlisted men of the Navy are entitled on retirement after thirty years’ service”, in the second and fourth provisos of 34 U.S.C. 854e, are omitted because of the repeal, by § 19 of the Pay Readjustment Act of 1942, 56 Stat. 369, of the laws authorizing such allowances. ### Editorial Notes ### Amendments 2018—Pub. L. 115–232, § 807(b)(15), renumbered section 6331 of this title as this section. Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 115–232, § 809(a), substituted “section 8385” for “section 6485” in introductory provisions. 2006—Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 109–163 substituted “Navy Reserve” for “Naval Reserve”. 1958—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 85–583, § 1(4), provided for the transfer to the appropriate Retired Reserve of those members of the Fleet Reserve or the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve who had transferred thereto from the Naval Reserve or the Marine Corps Reserve. Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 85–583, § 1(5), struck out “of clause (2)”. Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 85–583, § 1(6), inserted “or the Retired Reserve” after “retired list” wherever appearing. ### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries ### Effective Date of 2018 Amendment Amendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of amendments and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.