---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 14516"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "14516"
heading: "Separation to be considered involuntary"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/14516"
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"
---

# §14516. Separation to be considered involuntary


The separation of an [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) pursuant to section [14513](/usc/10/14513.md), [14514](/usc/10/14514.md), or [14515](/usc/10/14515.md) of this title shall be considered to be an involuntary separation for purposes of any other provision of law.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title XVI, § 1611, Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2954.)

## 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.