10 U.S.C. § 7342

Higher grade for service in special positions

Upon retirement, any permanent professor of the United States Military Academy whose grade is below brigadier general, and whose service as such a professor has been long and distinguished, may, in the discretion of the President, be retired in the grade of brigadier general.

( Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041 , 70A Stat. 230 , § 3962; Pub. L. 85–861, § 1(99) , Sept. 2, 1958 , 72 Stat. 1489 ; Pub. L. 89–288, § 2 , Oct. 22, 1965 , 79 Stat. 1050 ; Pub. L. 96–343, § 13(a)(1) –(3), Sept. 8, 1980 , 94 Stat. 1131 ; Pub. L. 96–513, title V, § 502(19) , Dec. 12, 1980 , 94 Stat. 2910 ; Pub. L. 97–22, § 10(a)(2)(B) , July 10, 1981 , 95 Stat. 136 ; Pub. L. 104–106, div. A, title V, § 502(c) , (d)(1), Feb. 10, 1996 , 110 Stat. 293 ; renumbered § 7342, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 808(b)(13) , Aug. 13, 2018 , 132 Stat. 1839 .)