(a) Under such regulations as the Secretary of the Air Force may prescribe, and with the consent of the governor or other appropriate authority of the State concerned, an officer of the Air National Guard of the United States may be transferred in grade to the Air Force Reserve.
(b) Unless discharged from his appointment as a Reserve, an officer of the Air National Guard of the United States whose Federal recognition as a member of the Air National Guard is withdrawn becomes a member of the Air Force Reserve. An officer who so becomes a member of the Air Force Reserve ceases to be a member of the Air National Guard of the United States.
Structure US Code
Subtitle E— Reserve Components
CHAPTER 1205— APPOINTMENT OF RESERVE OFFICERS
§ 12201. Reserve officers: qualifications for appointment
§ 12202. Commissioned officer grades
§ 12203. Commissioned officers: appointment, how made; term
§ 12204. Commissioned officers: original appointment; limitation
§ 12205. Commissioned officers: appointment; educational requirement
§ 12206. Commissioned officers: appointment of former commissioned officers
§ 12207. Commissioned officers: service credit upon original appointment
§ 12208. Officers: appointment upon transfer
§ 12209. Officer candidates: enlisted Reserves
§ 12210. Attending Physician to the Congress: reserve grade
§ 12211. Officers: Army National Guard of the United States
§ 12212. Officers: Air National Guard of the United States
§ 12213. Officers; Army Reserve: transfer from Army National Guard of the United States
§ 12214. Officers; Air Force Reserve: transfer from Air National Guard of the United States
§ 12215. Commissioned officers: reserve grade of adjutants general and assistant adjutants general