immediate annuity upon attaining twenty years of 
creditable service. 
(2) Members of the Reserve Components must 
wait to receive their annuity until age 60. 
(3) Over the last 15 years, the contributions in 
support of Active Duty missions by both the Guard 
and the Reserve have increased substantially. 
(4) During the Global War on Terrorism Re-
serve Component members have gone into harms 
way and fought alongside members of the Active 
Duty. 
(5) These contributions have been made under 
various forms of active duty orders, including Active 
Duty for Training (ADT), Active Duty for Special 
Work (ADSW), Presidential Recall, and Partial Mo-
bilization. Only a subset of mobilization orders is 
being credited as being ‘‘in support of contingency 
operation.’’ 
(6) Further contributions have been made to 
Active Duty commands within the United States 
during consecutive periods of Inactive Duty Training 
(IDT) and Annual Training (AT). 
(7) Additionally, both enlisted and officers with-
in the Reserve Component are required for pro-
motion to complete professional training and/or 
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Joint Professional Military Education (JPME), 
often by taking non-paid correspondence or on-line 
Distant Learning courses for only inactive duty 
points, while Active Duty are often sent on Tem-
porary Duty Assignment (TDY) to complete such 
courses. Currently there is no mechanism in place to 
compensate National Guard and Reserve Component 
soldiers for required professional courses. 
(8) Active Duty does not differentiate between 
stateside or deployed duty when earning creditable 
duty toward retirement at 20 years. 
(9) As defined by section 12733 of title 10, 
United States Code, RC members earn one inactive 
duty point toward retirement for each Reserve train-
ing drill. They can also earn one active duty point 
for every day of active duty performed. An Active 
Duty year is measured as 360 points. Professional 
courses are assigned inactive duty points. 
(10) Members of the Guard and Reserve under-
stand the point system. 
(11) A minimum of 50 points is required for a 
creditable service year. 
(12) Basing a Reserve Component retirement 
system on the accumulation of retirement points 
would remove differentiation of duty, clarify eligi-
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bility, and by using an appropriately structured ma-
trix would encourage volunteerism and retention. 
SEC. 3. ELIGIBILITY FOR RETIRED PAY FOR NONREGULAR 
SERVICE. 
(a) AGE AND SERVICE REQUIREMENTS.—Subsection 
(a) of section 12731 of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(a)(1) Except as provided in subsection (c), a person 
is entitled, upon application, to retired pay computed 
under section 12739 of this title, if the person— 
‘‘(A) satisfies one of the combinations of re-
quirements for minimum age and minimum number 
of years of creditable service (computed under sec-
tion 12732 of this title) that are specified in the 
table in paragraph (2); 
‘‘(B) performed the last six years of qualifying 
service while a member of any category named in 
section 12732(a)(1) of this title, but not while a 
member of a regular component, the Fleet Reserve, 
or the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve, except that in 
the case of a person who completed 20 years of serv-
ice computed under section 12732 of this title before 
October 5, 1994, the number of years of qualifying 
service under this subparagraph shall be eight; and 
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‘‘(C) is not entitled, under any other provision 
of law, to retired pay from an armed force or re-
tainer pay as a member of the Fleet Reserve or the 
Fleet Marine Corps Reserve. 
‘‘(2) The combinations of minimum age and min-
imum earned points (as defined under section 12732 of 
this title) required of a person under subparagraph (A) 
of paragraph (1) for entitlement to retired pay as provided 
in such paragraph are as follows: 
Age, in years, is at least: 
The minimum earned points required 
for that age is: 
4500
4225
3950
3675
3400
1000’’. 
(b) 20-YEAR LETTER.—Subsection (d) of such sec-
tion is amended by striking ‘‘the years of service required 
for eligibility for retired pay under this chapter’’ in the 
first sentence and inserting ‘‘20 years of service computed 
under section 12732 of this title’’. 
SEC. 4. CONTINUATION OF AGE 60 AS MINIMUM AGE FOR 
ELIGIBILITY OF NONREGULAR SERVICE RE-
TIREES FOR HEALTH CARE. 
Section 1074(b) of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) by inserting ‘‘(1)’’ after ‘‘(b)’’; and 
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(2) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
SEC. 5. EFFECTIVE DATE AND APPLICABILITY. 
This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall 
take effect on the first day of the first month that begins 
no more than 180 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act and shall apply with respect to retired pay pay-
able for that month and subsequent months. 
‘‘(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to a member 
or former member entitled to retired pay for non- 
regular service under chapter 1223 of this title who 
is under 60 years of age.’’. 
Æ 
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