10 USC § 14509 - Separation at age 62: reserve officers in grades below brigadier general or rear admiral (lower half)

---
identifier: "/us/usc/t10/s14509"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_legal_evidence"
title: "10 USC § 14509 - Separation at age 62: reserve officers in grades below brigadier general or rear admiral (lower half)"
title_number: 10
title_name: "ARMED FORCES"
section_number: "14509"
section_name: "Separation at age 62: reserve officers in grades below brigadier general or rear admiral (lower half)"
chapter_number: 1407
chapter_name: "FAILURE OF SELECTION FOR PROMOTION AND INVOLUNTARY SEPARATION"
part_number: "III"
part_name: "PROMOTION AND RETENTION OF OFFICERS ON THE RESERVE ACTIVE-STATUS LIST"
positive_law: true
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Added Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title XVI, § 1611, Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2952; amended Pub. L. 109–364, div. A, title V, § 503(c), Oct. 17, 2006, 120 Stat. 2178.)"
---


# § 14509. Separation at age 62: reserve officers in grades below brigadier general or rear admiral (lower half)

section 14515 of this title

Each reserve officer of the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps in a grade below brigadier general or rear admiral (lower half) who has not been recommended for promotion to the grade of brigadier general or rear admiral (lower half) and is not a member of the Retired Reserve shall, on the last day of the month in which that officer becomes 62 years of age, be separated in accordance with .

---

**Source Credit**: (Added Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title XVI, § 1611, Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2952; amended Pub. L. 109–364, div. A, title V, § 503(c), Oct. 17, 2006, 120 Stat. 2178.)

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2006— substituted “62” for “60” in section catchline and text.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective , see , set out as a note under .