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[CITE: 10USC14512]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                     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
 
Sec. 14512. Separation at age 64: officers holding certain 
        offices
        
    (a) Army and Air Force.--Unless retired, transferred to the Retired 
Reserve, or discharged at an earlier date, a reserve officer of the Army 
or Air Force who is Chief of the National Guard Bureau, an adjutant 
general, or if a reserve officer of the Army, commanding general of the 
troops of a State, shall on the last day of the month in which the 
officer becomes 64 years of age, be separated in accordance with section 
14515 of this title.
    (b) Navy and Marine Corps.--The Secretary of the Navy may defer the 
retirement under section 14510 or 14511 of a reserve officer of the Navy 
in a grade above captain or a reserve officer of the Marine Corps in a 
grade above colonel and retain the officer in an active status until the 
officer becomes 64 years of age. Not more than 10 officers may be so 
deferred at any one time, distributed between the Naval Reserve and the 
Marine Corps Reserve as the Secretary determines.

(Added Pub. L. 103-337, div. A, title XVI, Sec. 1611, Oct. 5, 1994, 108 
Stat. 2953.)


                            Prior Provisions

    Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in 
sections 3845, 6391(b), and 8845 of this title, prior to repeal by Pub. 
L. 103-337, Sec. 1629(a)(3), (b)(3), (c)(3).

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 10214, 14510, 14511, 14515 
of this title.
