§ 7342.
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].)