---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 14510"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "14510"
heading: "Separation at age 62: brigadier generals and rear admirals (lower half)"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/14510"
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"
---

# §14510. Separation at age 62: brigadier generals and rear admirals (lower half)


Unless retired, transferred to the Retired [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6), or discharged at an earlier date, each [reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) of the Army, Air Force, or Marine Corps in the [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7) of brigadier general who has not been recommended for promotion to the [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7) of major general, and each [reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) rear admiral (lower half) of the Navy who has not been recommended for promotion to the [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7) of rear admiral, except an [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) covered by [section 14512 of this title](/usc/10/14512.md), shall be separated in accordance with [section 14515 of this title](/usc/10/14515.md) on the last day of the month in which the [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) becomes 62 years of age.


## 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(b), Oct. 17, 2006, 120 Stat. 2178.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in sections 3843(a) and 8843 of this title, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 103–337, § 1629(a)(3), (c)(3).

### Amendments

2006—Pub. L. 109–364 substituted “age 62: brigadier generals” for “age 60: reserve brigadier generals” in section catchline and “62” for “60” in 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.