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Title 10 — Armed ForcesRelease 119-73

§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

Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle E— - Reserve Components › Part PART III— - PROMOTION AND RETENTION OF OFFICERS ON THE RESERVE ACTIVE-STATUS LIST › Chapter CHAPTER 1407— - FAILURE OF SELECTION FOR PROMOTION AND INVOLUNTARY SEPARATION › § 14507

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Reserve officers who are lieutenant colonels (Army, Air Force, Marine Corps) or commanders (Navy) must be taken off the reserve active‑status list on the first day of the month after they complete 28 years of commissioned service, unless they are kept on the list under sections 14701, 14701a, or 14702, retained under sections 12646 or 12686, or are on a promotion recommendation list. Reserve colonels (Army, Air Force, Marine Corps) and Navy captains must be removed on the first day of the month after they complete 30 years of commissioned service, with the same retention exceptions; that rule does not apply to a State’s adjutant general or assistant adjutants general. The Secretary of the Air Force could keep up to 50 judge advocates who earned their first law degree while on an ROTC educational delay for up to three extra years, but that authority expired on September 30, 2003.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §14507

Armed Forces — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Unless continued on the reserve active-status list under section 14701, 14701a, or 14702 of this title or retained as provided in section 12646 or 12686 of this title, each reserve officer of the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps who holds the grade of lieutenant colonel or commander and who is not on a list of officers recommended for promotion to the next higher grade shall (if not earlier removed from the reserve active-status list) be removed from that list under section 14514 of this title on the first day of the month after the month in which the officer completes 28 years of commissioned service.
(b)Unless continued on the reserve active-status list under section 14701, 14701a, or 14702 of this title or retained as provided in section 12646 or 12686 of this title, each reserve officer of the Army, Air Force, or Marine Corps who holds the grade of colonel, and each reserve officer of the Navy who holds the grade of captain, and who is not on a list of officers recommended for promotion to the next higher grade shall (if not earlier removed from the reserve active-status list) be removed from that list under section 14514 of this title on the first day of the month after the month in which the officer completes 30 years of commissioned service. This subsection does not apply to the adjutant general or assistant adjutants general of a State.
(c)(1)Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (a) and (b), the Secretary of the Air Force may retain on the reserve active-status list any reserve officer of the Air Force who is designated as a judge advocate and who obtained the first professional degree in law while on an educational delay program subsequent to being commissioned through the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.
(2)No more than 50 officers may be retained on the reserve active-status list under the authority of paragraph (1) at any time.
(3)No officer may be retained on the reserve active-status list under the authority of paragraph (1) for a period exceeding three years from the date on which, but for that authority, that officer would have been removed from the reserve active-status list under subsection (a) or (b).
(4)The authority of the Secretary of the Air Force under paragraph (1) expires on September 30, 2003.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2024—Subsecs. (a), (b). Pub. L. 118–159 inserted “, 14701a,” after “14701”. 1996—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 104–201 added subsec. (c).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1996 Amendment Pub. L. 104–201, div. A, title V, § 508(b), Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2513, provided that: “Subsection (c) of section 14507 of title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection (a), shall take effect on October 1, 1996.”

Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1996, see section 1691(b)(1) of Pub. L. 103–337, set out as a note under section 10001 of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

10 U.S.C. § 14507

Title 10 — Armed Forces

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73