### **CHAPTER 1407—FAILURE OF SELECTION FOR PROMOTION AND INVOLUNTARY SEPARATION**

Sec.
14501.
Failure of selection for promotion.
14502.
Special selection boards: correction of errors.
14502a.
Special selection review boards.
14503.
Discharge of officers with less than six years of commissioned service or found not qualified for promotion to first lieutenant or lieutenant (junior grade).
14504.
Effect of failure of selection for promotion: reserve first lieutenants of the Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps and reserve lieutenants (junior grade) of the Navy.
14505.
Effect of failure of selection for promotion: reserve captains of the Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps and reserve lieutenants of the Navy.
14506.
Effect of failure of selection for promotion: reserve majors of the Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps and reserve lieutenant commanders of the Navy.
14507.
Removal from the reserve active-status list for years of service: reserve lieutenant colonels and colonels of the Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps and reserve commanders and captains of the Navy.
14508.
Removal from the reserve active-status list for years of service: reserve general and flag officers.
14509.
Separation at age 62: reserve officers in grades below brigadier general or rear admiral (lower half).
14510.
Separation at age 62: brigadier generals and rear admirals (lower half).
14511.
Separation at age 64: officers in grade of major general or rear admiral and above.
14512.
Separation at age 66: officers holding certain offices.
14513.
Failure of selection for promotion: transfer, retirement, or discharge.
14514.
Discharge or retirement for years of service or after selection for early removal.
14515.
Discharge or retirement for age.
14516.
Separation to be considered involuntary.
14517.
Entitlement of officers discharged under this chapter to separation pay.
14518.
Continuation of officers to complete disciplinary action.
14519.
Deferment of retirement or separation for medical reasons.

#### **Editorial Notes**

#### Amendments

**2021**—Pub. L. 116–283, div. A, title V, §505(b)(2), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 3571, added item 14502a.

**2008**—Pub. L. 110–181, div. A, title V, §503(c)(3), title XVIII, §1825(a)(2), Jan. 28, 2008, 122 Stat. 95, 502, substituted "six years" for "five years" in item 14503 and "officers in grade of major general or rear admiral and above" for "major generals and rear admirals" in item 14511.

**2006**—Pub. L. 109–364, div. A, title V, §503(f), Oct. 17, 2006, 120 Stat. 2178, struck out "reserve" before "brigadier" in item 14510 and substituted "62" for "60" in items 14509 and 14510, "64" for "62" in item 14511, and "66" for "64" in item 14512.

**2002**—Pub. L. 107–314, div. A, title V, §522(b), Dec. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 2541, added item 14519.

**2001**—Pub. L. 107–107, div. A, title V, §517(b)(2)(B), Dec. 28, 2001, 115 Stat. 1094, substituted "Failure of selection for promotion: transfer, retirement, or discharge" for "Separation for failure of selection of promotion" in item 14513.

**1999**—Pub. L. 106–65, div. A, title V, §511(b), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 592, added item 14518.

**1996**—Pub. L. 104–106, div. A, title XV, §1501(b)(27), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 497, inserted "reserve" after "Marine Corps and" in item 14506, "reserve" after "Removal from the" in item 14507, and "in grades" after "reserve officers" in item 14509.