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I board next month for 06. Depending on when the list is published and if I'm on it, MRD is just under 3 years is it possible?
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Yes. If you are selected for promotion, your MRD is extended to 30 years (MRD for O-5s is 28 years and 30 years for O-5(P)s/O-6s*).
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10 U.S. Code § 633 (Retirement for years of service: regular lieutenant colonels and commanders) - https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/633
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Does age play a role in this sir (e.g., if the soldier will be 60 at MRD)?
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LTC (Join to see) - Yes, but not in your example. The maximum age was raised to 62 for most officers back in the early 2000s. However, to your general question, both (maximum age and MRD) are "whichever comes first" type of maximums.
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* 10 U.S. Code § 1251 - https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/1251
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COL Randall C.

Thanks sir. Another question concerning retirement rank: if an O5 is promoted to O6 and is in that grade for 2 years 2 months, at which point that officer hits MRD and is forced to retire: what rank would that officer retire at?
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LTC (Join to see) - O6.

If you were voluntarily retiring before your MRD it would be three years, but for officers and enlisted who are involuntarily separated, the requirement is 185 days or 6 calendar months (10 USC 1370a*).

Paraphrase of 10 USC 1370a(c), Service-in-grade Requirement for Offices in Grades Above O–4 - normally a reserve commissioned officer must have satisfactorily served an active status for not less than three years. However, that officer can be credited with meeting that requirement if they have completed at least six months of satisfactory service in that grade and is being discharged solely due to a nondiscretionary provision of law requiring the discharge due to age or years of service.

Multiple ARs address this in some form or fashion:
• AR 15-80*, para 2-3
• AR 135-180*, para 4-6c
• AR 600-8-24*, para 6-1
• AR 600-8-7*, para 6-3c
etc.

This assumes that the officer doesn't have any 'dings' that would require them to go to the Army Grade Determination Review Board because a period of their service might be unsatisfactory (if they haven't been in trouble, then they won't go through the determination).
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* 10 U.S. Code § 1370a - Officers entitled to retired pay for non-regular service - https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/1370a
* AR 15-80 (Army Grade Determination Review Board and Grade Determinations) - https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN11826_AR15-80_FINAL.pdf
* AR 135-180 (Army National Guard and Reserve: Retirement for Regular and Non-Regular Service) - https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/ARN33567-AR_135-180-000-WEB-1.pdf
* AR 600-8-24 (Officer Transfers and Discharges) - https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN3140_AR600-8-24_FINAL.pdf
* AR 600-8-7 (Retirement Services Program) - https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/ARN30707-AR_600-8-7-000-WEB-1.pdf
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I made LTC in 2018 and I had an MRD 31 DEC 22. I retired on 31 DEC 21.


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It's possible, and in the Guard I have seen it happen in a tighter window than that, but it does depend on your state (or another state or the USAR) having a valid vacancy to promote you in to.

That said, according to your profile, your year group is 2004, which should make your current MRD of 28 years 2032, and promotion to O6 adds two years to MRD...
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