10 U.S.C. § 12732 — Entitlement to retired pay: computation of years of service

(a) How years of service are added up (except as subsection (b) limits): the person's years of service equal the sum of: (1) Years of service before July 1, 1949, in any of these: (A) the armed forces; (B) the federally recognized National Guard before June 15, 1933; (C) a federally recognized status in the National Guard before that date; (D) the National Guard after June 14, 1933, if service was continuous from enlistment (or federal recognition as an officer) through later enlistment or appointment in the National Guard of the United States, the Army National Guard of the United States, or the Air National Guard of the United States; (E) the Navy Reserve Force; (F) the Naval Militia, if it met standards set by the Secretary of the Navy; (G) the National Naval Volunteers; (H) the Army Nurse Corps, the Navy Nurse Corps, or their Reserve corps, at any time after February 2, 1901; (I) the Army under a specific 1942 appointment law; or (J) full-time civilian work with the Army Medical Department (other than as a student or apprentice), in dietetic or physical therapy roles before April 1, 1943 (and after April 6, 1917), or in occupational therapy before a later appointment in the Army Nurse Corps, the Women's Medical Specialist Corps, or the Air Force before January 1, 1949. (2) After July 1, 1949, each one-year period in which the person earned at least 50 points, counted as: (A) one point for each day of active service, or of full-time duty under listed sections of title 32 while on annual training or attending a designated service school, as long as it met required standards; (B) one point for each drill or equivalent instruction period the Secretary concerned prescribed and that met legal requirements; (C) 15 points a year just for membership in a reserve component, in the Army or Air Force without a component, or in another qualifying category (other than a regular component); (D) points credited under section 2126(b); (E) one point for each day of funeral honors duty of at least two hours, unless already credited under another category; (F)(i) one point for each day of active service or drill during a "covered emergency period," if travel or duty restrictions from the President, the Secretary of Defense, or (for the Coast Guard) the Secretary of Homeland Security prevented the person from performing that duty — (ii) capped at 35 points in any one year — where (iii) "covered emergency period" means the period from March 1, 2020, through 60 days after the person's travel or duty restriction was lifted; and (G) one point for each inactive-duty training period missed while the member was on parental leave under section 711. For purposes of (A) through (G), National Guard service counts as reserve component service if the person was later appointed into the National Guard of the United States, the Army or Air National Guard of the United States, or as a Reserve officer of the Army or Air Force, and served continuously from federal recognition to that appointment. (3) The person's years of active service in the Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service. (4) The person's years of active commissioned service in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including its predecessor agencies (the Environmental Science Services Administration and the Coast and Geodetic Survey). (b) Service that cannot be counted under subsection (a): (1) Inactive service (other than active service) in the Organized Reserve Corps, the Army Reserve, or the officers' section of the Air Force Reserve; (2) Inactive service after June 30, 1949 while on the Honorary Retired List of the Navy Reserve or Marine Corps Reserve; (3) Service in the inactive National Guard; (4) Service in a non-federally-recognized National Guard status; (5) Service in the Fleet Reserve or Fleet Marine Corps Reserve; (6) Service as an inactive Reserve nurse of the Army Nurse Corps (established in 1901), or, before July 1, 1938, of the Navy Nurse Corps (established in 1908); (7) Service in any role besides commissioned officer, warrant officer, nurse, flight officer, aviation midshipman, appointed aviation cadet, or enlisted member (except the categories described in subsection (a)(1)(I) and (J)); and (8) Screening performed under section 10149 through electronic means, whether or not the member was paid a stipend for it under section 433a of title 37.