Are retirees subject to UCMJ?

This is interesting, according to Article 2 of UCMJ.
4. Retired members of a regular component of the armed forces who are entitled to pay.
5. Retired members of a reserve component who are receiving hospitalization from an armed force.
If retired members of a reserve component who are NOT receiving hospitalization from an armed force, will not be subject to UCMJ then?

While serving at Subic Bay there was a retired Radioman Chief who was stealing classified message from the message center. NIS put a camera above the copier that the chief used. The agents sat down in my space watching him and documenting everything the chief did. They were afraid that if they arrested the chief that his wife would get him put on legal hold. What they did was get the Navy to put him back on active duty the moment they arrested him. When they did arrest him, he was taken straight to Cubi Point where he was flown to Guam. If I remember correctly, he got busted down to E-1, loss his retirement, and got 25 years for his efforts..

Sure wish something like that applied to politicians.
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A retired service member really has to screw up pretty bad to be brought out of retirement to face UCMJ. I have to say this is a weird question to post and I wonder why this question would come up and the person who posted it would be so concerned??? Strange!!!

I remember there was a retired SGM in Germany who worked at a foreign car dealership. He helped active duty soldiers defraud the government into shipping cars to the he sold to them to the U.S. Once caught he received an Article 15.

Before I retired from the Army in 2008, I received a briefing about this. Yes, retirees are still subject to the UCMJ. This is based upon the fact that retirees receive their pensions(pay).

yes they are.

Yes they can. The case you are referring to is MSG Hennis who was brought back in AD to go through CM on charges he murdered his wife and child, several years after retirement, based on new evidence in the case. There is a movie about it and at least one book. In order for them to bring you back on AD to face UCMJ it would have to be something extreme for them to justify spending the money it would take to go through all the logistics of it.

Yes until we die