§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 colonel or (Navy) commander must be taken off the reserve active-status list when they finish 28 years of commissioned service. Reserve officers who are colonel (Army, Air Force, Marine Corps) or captain (Navy) must be taken off when they finish 30 years. That only changes if they are kept on the list under other rules (sections 14701, 14701a, 14702, 12646, or 12686) or if they are officially recommended for promotion. The rule about 30 years does not apply to a State’s adjutant general or assistant adjutant general. The Secretary of the Air Force could keep some Air Force judge advocates on the list if they earned a law degree while on an ROTC educational delay. No more than 50 officers could be kept this way at once. No one could be kept under that rule for more than three years past when they would otherwise be removed. That special Air Force authority ended on September 30, 2003.