§ 9342.
Upon retirement, any permanent professor of the United States Air Force 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. 554], § 8962; [Pub. L. 85–861, § 1(197)], Sept. 2, 1958, [72 Stat. 1541]; [Pub. L. 89–288, § 6], Oct. 22, 1965, [79 Stat. 1050]; [Pub. L. 96–343, § 13(b)(1)], (2), Sept. 8, 1980, [94 Stat. 1131]; [Pub. L. 96–513, title V, § 504(20)], Dec. 12, 1980, [94 Stat. 2917]; [Pub. L. 104–106, div. A, title V, § 502(c)], (d)(1), Feb. 10, 1996, [110 Stat. 293]; renumbered § 9342, [Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 806(b)(14)], Aug. 13, 2018, [132 Stat. 1833].)