Title 10, Chapter 36 — Promotion, Separation, and Involuntary Retirement of Officers on the Active-duty List

Convening of selection boards

Composition of selection boards

Oath of members of selection boards

Nondisclosure of board proceedings

Notice of convening of selection boards

Information furnished to selection boards

Recommendations for promotion by selection boards

Reports of selection boards

Action on reports of selection boards

Eligibility for consideration for promotion: time-in-grade and other requirements

Eligibility for consideration for promotion: designation as joint qualified officer required before promotion to general or flag grade; exceptions

Active-duty lists

Competitive categories for promotion

Numbers to be recommended for promotion

Establishment of promotion zones

Promotions: how made

Authority to vacate promotions to grades of brigadier general and rear admiral (lower half)

Acceptance of promotions; oath of office

Failure of selection for promotion

Special selection boards

Special selection review boards

Removal from a list of officers recommended for promotion

Discharge of commissioned officers with less than six years of active commissioned service or found not qualified for promotion for first lieutenant or lieutenant (junior grade)

Effect of failure of selection for promotion: first lieutenants and lieutenants (junior grade)

Effect of failure of selection for promotion: captains and majors of the Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space Force and lieutenants and lieutenant commanders of the Navy

Retirement for years of service: regular and Space Force lieutenant colonels; regular Navy commanders

Retirement for years of service: regular and Space Force colonels; regular Navy captains

Retirement for years of service: regular and Space Force brigadier generals; regular Navy rear admirals (lower half)

Retirement for years of service: regular and Space Force officers in grades above brigadier general; regular Navy officers in grades above rear admiral (lower half)

Selection of regular officers for continuation on active duty

Continuation on active duty: officers in certain military specialties and career tracks

Selective early retirement

Modification to rules for continuation on active duty; enhanced authority for selective early retirement and early discharges

Voluntary retirement incentive

Continuation on active duty to complete disciplinary action

Deferment of retirement or separation for medical reasons

Applicability of chapter

Entitlement of officers discharged or retired under this chapter to separation pay or retired pay

Chaplains: discharge or retirement upon loss of professional qualifications

Repealed. Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title XVI, § 1622(b), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2961]

Definitions

Consideration of performance as a member of the Joint Staff

Force shaping authority

Officers in designated competitive categories

Selection for promotion

Eligibility for consideration for promotion

Opportunities for consideration for promotion

Promotions

Failure of selection for promotion

Retirement: retirement for years of service; selective early retirement

Continuation on active duty

Continuation on active duty: officers in certain military specialties and career tracks

Other administrative authorities

Regulations