§ 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 capta
(a)
Lieutenant Colonels and Commanders.—
Unless continued on the reserve active-status list under section
14701 or
14702 of this title or retained as provided in section
12646 or
12686 of this title, each reserve officer of the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps who holds the grade of lieutenant colonel or commander and who is not on a list of officers recommended for promotion to the next higher grade shall (if not earlier removed from the reserve active-status list) be removed from that list under section
14514 of this title on the first day of the month after the month in which the officer completes 28 years of commissioned service.
(b)
Colonels and Navy Captains.—
Unless continued on the reserve active-status list under section
14701 or
14702 of this title or retained as provided in section
12646 or
12686 of this title, each reserve officer of the Army, Air Force, or Marine Corps who holds the grade of colonel, and each reserve officer of the Navy who holds the grade of captain, and who is not on a list of officers recommended for promotion to the next higher grade shall (if not earlier removed from the reserve active-status list) be removed from that list under section
14514 of this title on the first day of the month after the month in which the officer completes 30 years of commissioned service. This subsection does not apply to the adjutant general or assistant adjutants general of a State.
(c)
Temporary Authority To Retain Certain Officers Designated as Judge Advocates.—
(1)
Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (a) and (b), the Secretary of the Air Force may retain on the reserve active-status list any reserve officer of the Air Force who is designated as a judge advocate and who obtained the first professional degree in law while on an educational delay program subsequent to being commissioned through the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.
(2)
No more than 50 officers may be retained on the reserve active-status list under the authority of paragraph (1) at any time.