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8916. 8917. 8918. 8919. 8920. 8921. 8922. 8923. 8924. 8925. 8926. 8927. 8928. 8929.

Twenty-eight years: promotion-list lieutenant colonels. Thirty years or more: regular enlisted members. Thirty years or more: regular commissioned officers. Thirty years or more: regular commissioned officers; excessive number. More than thirty years: professors of the United States Air Force Academy. Thirty years or five years in grade: promotion-list colonels. Thirty years or five years in grade: regular brigadier generals. Thirty-five years or five years in grade: regular major generals. Forty years or more: Air Force officers. Computation of years of service: voluntary retirement; regular enlisted members. Computation of years of service: voluntary retirement; regular and reserve commissioned officers. Computation of years of service: mandatory retirement; regular commissioned officers. Computation of years of service: voluntary retirement; Regular Air Force nurses and women medical specialists. Computation of retired pay: law applicable.

§8911. Twenty years or more: regular or reserve commissioned officers The Secretary of the Air Force may, upon the officer's request, retire a regular or reserve commissioned officer of the Air Force who has at least 20 years of service computed under section 8926 of this title, at least 10 years of which have been active service as a commissioned officer. §8912. Twenty years or more: Regular Air Force nurses and women medical specialists The Secretary of the Air Force may, upon the officer's request, retire an Air Force nurse, or a woman medical specialist, of the Regular Air Force who has at least 20 years of service computed under section 8928 of this title. §8913. Twenty years or more: deferred officers not recommended for promotion (a) A deferred officer who is not recommended for promotion under section 8303(c) of this title, or an officer who is found disqualified for promotion under section 8302(f) of this title, shall, if he has at least 20 years of service computed under section 8927(a) of this title, be retired, except as provided by section 47a of title 5, one year and 30 days after the earlier of the following dates: (1) The date of appointment to the grade concerned of the first officer junior to him on the list considered by the first selection board. (2) The date on which he would have completed, for promotion purposes, 7,14, or 21 years of service, if he is in the grade of first lieutenant, captain, or major, as the case may be, had his years of service not been reduced under section 8303(b) of this title. (b) Unless sooner retired or separated under another provision of law, a deferred officer who is not recommended for promotion under section 8303(c) of this title, or an officer found disqualified for promotion under section 8302(f) of this title, who is not eligible for retirement under subsection (a) of this section or any other provision of law, but is within two years of becoming entitled to retirement under subsection (a) or some other provision of law, shall be re-