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§ 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.)