§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

Summary

Reserve officers who are lieutenant colonels or commanders must be taken off the reserve active-status list when they reach 28 years of commissioned service, unless they are kept on that list under sections 14701, 14701a, or 14702, are retained under sections 12646 or 12686, or are on a list recommended for promotion to the next higher rank. Colonels (and Navy captains) must be removed when they reach 30 years of commissioned service, with the same exceptions. For both, the removal happens on the first day of the month after the month they hit the required years. The rule for colonels and captains does not apply to a State’s adjutant general or assistant adjutants general. The Secretary of the Air Force may temporarily keep certain Air Force reserve officers who are judge advocates if they earned their first law degree while on an educational delay after commissioning through ROTC. No more than 50 such officers may be kept at one time. Each may be kept no more than three years past when they otherwise would have been removed. That retention authority expired on September 30, 2003.