---
kind: "unit"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
key: "stE/ptIII/ch1407"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 1407"
heading: "Failure of Selection for Promotion and Involuntary Separation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/stE-ptIII-ch1407"
sections_count: 20
---

# Chapter 1407 — Failure of Selection for Promotion and Involuntary Separation

Title 10 — Armed Forces › Subtitle E — Reserve Components › Part III — Promotion and Retention of Officers on the Reserve Active-Status List

## Sections

- [§14501. Failure of selection for promotion](/usc/10/14501.md)
- [§14502. Special selection boards: correction of errors](/usc/10/14502.md)
- [§14502a. Special selection review boards](/usc/10/14502a.md)
- [§14503. Discharge of officers with less than six years of commissioned service or found not qualified for promotion to first lieutenant or lieutenant (junior grade)](/usc/10/14503.md)
- [§14504. Effect of failure of selection for promotion: reserve first lieutenants of the Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps and reserve lieutenants (junior grade) of the Navy](/usc/10/14504.md)
- [§14505. Effect of failure of selection for promotion: reserve captains of the Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps and reserve lieutenants of the Navy](/usc/10/14505.md)
- [§14506. Effect of failure of selection for promotion: reserve majors of the Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps and reserve lieutenant commanders of the Navy](/usc/10/14506.md)
- [§14507. Removal from the reserve active-status list for years of service: reserve lieutenant colonels and colonels of the Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps and reserve commanders and captains of the Navy](/usc/10/14507.md)
- [§14508. Removal from the reserve active-status list for years of service: reserve general and flag officers](/usc/10/14508.md)
- [§14509. Separation at age 62: reserve officers in grades below brigadier general or rear admiral (lower half)](/usc/10/14509.md)
- [§14510. Separation at age 62: brigadier generals and rear admirals (lower half)](/usc/10/14510.md)
- [§14511. Separation at age 64: officers in grade of major general or rear admiral and above](/usc/10/14511.md)
- [§14512. Separation at age 66: officers holding certain offices](/usc/10/14512.md)
- [§14513. Failure of selection for promotion: transfer, retirement, or discharge](/usc/10/14513.md)
- [§14514. Discharge or retirement for years of service or after selection for early removal](/usc/10/14514.md)
- [§14515. Discharge or retirement for age](/usc/10/14515.md)
- [§14516. Separation to be considered involuntary](/usc/10/14516.md)
- [§14517. Entitlement of officers discharged under this chapter to separation pay](/usc/10/14517.md)
- [§14518. Continuation of officers to complete disciplinary action](/usc/10/14518.md)
- [§14519. Deferment of retirement or separation for medical reasons](/usc/10/14519.md)