44-119 - Retired list of officers, warrant officers and enlisted persons.
§ 44-119. Retired list of officers, warrant officers and enlisted persons.
There shall be a retired list of officers, warrant officers and enlistedpersons of the Virginia National Guard.
The following persons, upon their written applications through regularmilitary channels to the Adjutant General, may be placed on the retired listof the Virginia National Guard:
1. Former Adjutant Generals who have resigned or been relieved;
2. Officers or enlisted persons in the guard who have been honorablydischarged and have served for at least ten years in active service of theguard, or ten years computing the period served in the Virginia NationalGuard and the period of active service in the United States armed forces.
Officers who have served honorably and efficiently in the Virginia NationalGuard or the Virginia militia shall be commissioned on the retired list ofthe Virginia militia, unorganized, in their respective grade, or the highestgrade held by them in the military service of the Commonwealth, except thatofficers who have to their credit fifteen years or more of exemplary servicemay, at the discretion of the Adjutant General, be retired with commission ofthe next higher grade to the highest grade held by them in the militaryservice of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Warrant officers and noncommissioned officers shall be placed on the retiredlist with the highest rank held by them in the Virginia National Guard.
Reentry into the active military service of the Commonwealth or of the UnitedStates shall discharge officers, warrant officers and enlisted persons fromthe retired list, and for any future retirement new application shall be made.
All officers, warrant officers and enlisted personnel heretofore placed onthe retired list by virtue of the provisions of an act approved March 3,1892, as amended, shall be transferred to and borne upon the retired list ofthe Virginia militia, unorganized.
(1930, p. 971; Michie Code 1942, § 2673(104); 1958, c. 393; 1983, c. 157.)