---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 14509"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "14509"
heading: "Separation at age 62: reserve officers in grades below brigadier general or rear admiral (lower half)"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/14509"
units:
  - "Subtitle E — Reserve Components"
  - "Part III — Promotion and Retention of Officers on the Reserve Active-Status List"
  - "Chapter 1407 — Failure of Selection for Promotion and Involuntary Separation"
---

# §14509. Separation at age 62: reserve officers in grades below brigadier general or rear admiral (lower half)


Each [reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) of the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps in a [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7) below brigadier general or rear admiral (lower half) who has not been recommended for promotion to the [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7) of brigadier general or rear admiral (lower half) and is not a member of the Retired [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) shall, on the last day of the month in which that [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) becomes 62 years of age, be separated in accordance with [section 14515 of this title](/usc/10/14515.md).


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title XVI, § 1611, Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2952; amended Pub. L. 109–364, div. A, title V, § 503(c), Oct. 17, 2006, 120 Stat. 2178.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2006—Pub. L. 109–364 substituted “62” for “60” in section catchline and text.

### 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.