---
kind: "unit"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
key: "stA/ptII/ch36/schIII"
level: "subchapter"
label: "Subchapter III"
heading: "Failure of Selection for Promotion and Retirement for Years of Service"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/stA-ptII-ch36-schIII"
sections_count: 11
---

# Subchapter III — Failure of Selection for Promotion and Retirement for Years of Service

Title 10 — Armed Forces › Subtitle A — General Military Law › Part II — Personnel › Chapter 36 — Promotion, Separation, and Involuntary Retirement of Officers on the Active-Duty List

## Sections

- [§627. Failure of selection for promotion](/usc/10/627.md)
- [§628. Special selection boards](/usc/10/628.md)
- [§628a. Special selection review boards](/usc/10/628a.md)
- [§629. Removal from a list of officers recommended for promotion](/usc/10/629.md)
- [§630. Discharge of commissioned officers with less than six years of active commissioned service or found not qualified for promotion for first lieutenant or lieutenant (junior grade)](/usc/10/630.md)
- [§631. Effect of failure of selection for promotion: first lieutenants and lieutenants (junior grade)](/usc/10/631.md)
- [§632. Effect of failure of selection for promotion: captains and majors of the Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space Force and lieutenants and lieutenant commanders of the Navy](/usc/10/632.md)
- [§633. Retirement for years of service: regular and Space Force lieutenant colonels; regular Navy commanders](/usc/10/633.md)
- [§634. Retirement for years of service: regular and Space Force colonels; regular Navy captains](/usc/10/634.md)
- [§635. Retirement for years of service: regular and Space Force brigadier generals; regular Navy rear admirals (lower half)](/usc/10/635.md)
- [§636. Retirement for years of service: regular and Space Force officers in grades above brigadier general; regular Navy officers in grades above rear admiral (lower half)](/usc/10/636.md)