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Eligibility of a Retired Army Officer to Be Appointed Inspector General of the Department of Defense
A retired officer of the Regular Army, not on active duty, is not a "member of the Armed Forces, active or reserve," under section 8 of the Inspector General Act of 1978 and therefore is not disqualified from being appointed as Inspector General of the Department of Defense. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/opinion/file/832856/download.
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