Officer Retirements and Separations Section

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Officer Retirements and Separations Section
Information Briefing
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General Rules for Officers (1 of 2)

• Every service member upon entry in to the Armed
  Services is obligated to serve 8 years (Title 10,
  USC, Section 651). Time may be served by
  combining Active, Reserve, National Guard or
  Inactive Reserve time in officer or enlisted
  status.
• Initial periods of obligated voluntary service
  (OBV) are based on commissioning sources
• -United States Military Academy (USMA) - 5 years
• -Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) - 4
  years scholarship/3 non-scholarship
• -Officer Candidate School (OCS) - 3 years
• -Warrant Officer Candidate School (WOCS) - 6
  years
• -Special Branches (Chaplains, Medical, Judge
  Advocate General (JAG)) have varying OBV based on
  rules of each branch.

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General Rules for Officers (2 of 2)

• Active Duty Officers must, at a minimum, serve
  through their OBV and all other Active Duty
  Service Obligations (ADSO) before applying for
  separation. ADSO may be either statutory (law
  based) or regulatory (policy based). Some ADSO
  may be served concurrent with the OBV some are
  served consecutively.
• ADSOs are anything that further obligates an
  officer before, up to, or beyond their original
  OBV. Some examples are military or civilian
  schooling, permanent change of station, accepting
  promotion (warrant officers), initial entry
  rotary wing training, and tuition assistance.
• Officers may seek waivers to ADSOs. In all
  cases, Headquarters, Department of the Army is
  the waiver approval authority.
• Types of Officers
• - Regular Army (RA) commissioned and warrant
• - Other than Regular Army (OTRA) commissioned
  and warrant

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Officer Separations (1 of 2) (Army Regulation
600-8-24, Chapters 2 and 3)

• There are two types of separations release from
  active duty (REFRAD), chapter 2, and unqualified
  resignations, chapter 3.
• Separation is governed by type of officer
• -Unqualified Resignations.
• RA If officer has not completed the 8 year
  MSO, the officer must accept an appointment as a
  Reserve Officer until completion of the 8 year
  MSO.
• OTRA Who have completed the 8 year MSO and no
  longer desire to serve in the Army Reserves or
  National Guard.
• -REFRAD.
• OTRA If officer has not completed the 8
  year MSO, the officer WILL REMAIN APPOINTED as
  an OTRA until completion of MSO.
• Also submitted by OTRA officers who have
  completed MSO but desire to continue service in
  the Army Reserve or National Guard.

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Officer Separations (2 of 2)

• Some reasons separating Officers seek relief from
  ADSO
• - Pregnancy
• - Hardship
• - Personal Reasons
• - Essential to National Interest
• - To attend school
• Stop Loss
• -The legally based authority of the
  Secretary of the Army to hold all or some service
  members beyond non-statutory separation dates
• -The Army has provisions for separations
  under Stop Loss outlined in an Army-wide message
  defining exemptions and exceptions to policy

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Officer Retirements (Army Regulation 600-8-24,
Chapter 6)

• Eligibility 20 years active federal service
  (w/10 years active commissioned service) may
  retire with approval of SECARMY.
• Mandatory retirement for age Regular Army (RA)
  Commissioned 62 Years Other than Regular Army
  (OTRA) Commissioned 60 Years Warrant Officers
  (WO) 62 Years 60 Days WO with Reserve
  Commission 60 Years.
• Mandatory retirement for years of service RA
  Colonel 30 Years Lieutenant Colonel 28 Years
  OTRA Officers 20 Years WO 30 Years 60 Days
  of AFS.
• Special branches (Chaplains, Medical, JAG) have
  varying rules about maximum age and service rules
  for retirement.

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Officer Retirements and Separations Section
Points of Contact

• CPT Ivan Zasimczuk, Chief of Officer Retirements
  and Separations Section, 703-325-5704 or
  ivan.zasimczuk_at_hoffman.army.mil
• Mr. Harold L. Smedley, Lead Military Analyst for
  Officer Separations, 703-325-7956 or
  harold.smedley_at_hoffman.army.mil
• Mrs. Wanda Rollins, Lead Military Analyst for
  Officer Retirements, 703-325-7141 or
  wanda.rollins_at_hoffman.army.mi
• Please visit our website at https//www.perscomo
  nline.army.mil/opdistacc/RetSep/Ret_Sep.htm