Volume 75
Public Law 87–165
To amend title 10, United States Code, to permit the crediting of certain minority service for the purpose of determining eligibility for retirement, and for other purposes.
Approved August 25, 1961
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend title 10, United States Code, to permit the crediting of certain minority service for the purpose of determining eligibility for retirement, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate; and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That chapter 53 of
Armed Forces.
Minority service, credit.
10 USC 1031–1038.
title 10, United States Code, is amended as follows:
By adding the following new section at the end thereof:
Ҥ 1039. Crediting of minority service
“For the purpose of determining eligibility for retirement or transfer to the Fleet Reserve or Fleet Marine Corps Reserve, entitlement to retired or retainer pay, and years of service m computing retired or retainer pay of a member of the armed forces, any service which would be creditable but for the fact that it was performed by him under an enlistment or induction entered into before he attained the age prescribed by law for that enlistment or induction, shall be credited.”
By adding the following item at the end of the analysis:
Sec. 2.
Section 1 applies to service performed, and retirements or transfers to the Fleet Reserve or the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve effected, before and after this Act takes effect.
Approved August 25, 1961.