---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 14005"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "14005"
heading: "Competitive categories"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/14005"
units:
  - "Subtitle E — Reserve Components"
  - "Part III — Promotion and Retention of Officers on the Reserve Active-Status List"
  - "Chapter 1401 — Applicability and Reserve Active-Status Lists"
---

# §14005. Competitive categories


Each [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) whose name appears on a [reserve active-status list](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-7) shall be placed in a competitive category. The competitive categories for each armed force shall be specified by the [Secretary](/usc/10/12521.md?p=4) of the military [department](/usc/10/12521.md?p=5) concerned under regulations prescribed by the [Secretary](/usc/10/12521.md?p=4) of Defense. [Officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) in the same competitive category shall compete among themselves for promotion.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title XVI, § 1611, Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2923.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### 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.