Chaplains: discharge or retirement upon loss of professional qualifications

  1. Law
  2. USC 10
  3. Armed Forces
  4. General Military Law
  5. PERSONNEL
  6. PROMOTION, SEPARATION, AND INVOLUNTARY RETIREMENT OF OFFICERS ON THE ACTIVE-DUTY LIST
  7. ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO PROMOTION, SEPARATION, AND RETIREMENT
  8. Chaplains: discharge or retirement upon loss of professional qualifications

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§643. Chaplains: discharge or retirement upon loss of professional qualifications

Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, a commissioned officer on the active-duty list of the Army, Navy, or Air Force who is appointed or designated as a chaplain may, if he fails to maintain the qualifications needed to perform his professional function, be discharged or, if eligible for retirement, may be retired.

(Added Pub. L. 96–513, title I, §105, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2867 .)

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.


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