REDUCTION IN TIME-IN-GRADE REQUIREMENT FOR RETENTION OF GRADE UPON VOLUNTARY RETIREMENT

SEC. 522. REDUCTION IN TIME-IN-GRADE REQUIREMENT FOR RETENTION OF GRADE UPON VOLUNTARY RETIREMENT Section 1370(a)(2) of title 10, United States Code, is amended— (1) by inserting “(A)” after “(2)”; (2) by inserting after “not less than three years” at the end of the first sentence the following: “, except that the Secretary of Defense may authorize the Secretary of a military department to reduce such period to a period not less than two years in the case of retirements effective during the five-year period beginning on October 1, 1990”; (3) by designating the second, and third sentences as subparagraph (B) and by striking out “the preceding sentence” in the first sentence of such subparagraph (as so designated) and inserting in lieu thereof “subparagraph (A)”; and (4) by adding at the end the following: “(C) The number of officers in an armed force in a grade for whom a reduction is made during any fiscal year in the period of service-in-104 STAT. 1562grade otherwise required under this paragraph may not exceed the number equal to two percent of the authorized active-duty strength for that fiscal year for officers of that armed force in that grade.”.