Reserve Officer Continuation and Retention
 
This page addresses only Reserve officers who are serving in Ready Reserve (SELRES, VTU, IRR) or Standby Reserve-Active (USNR-S1) status.  It does not address Administration of the Reserve (TAR)
officers.
 
There are provisions of law and policy that allow continuation and retention of certain Navy Reserve officers past mandatory attrition dates when they become subject to the following provisions of law:
 
Attrition Provisions of Law (Promotion Failures/Years of Service)
Title 10 U.S. Code, Chapter 1407 requires the following attrition actions:

Lieutenants - in an active status (USNR-R or USNR-S1) who twice fail of selection to LCDR and have completed the eight-year Military Service Obligation (MSO) will be transferred to the Retired Reserve, if qualified, or be honorably discharged from the Navy Reserve not later than the first day of the seventh month after approval of the Board report which considered the officer for the second time. Lieutenants that have 2 times failed to select to Lieutenant Commander may submit a request for continuation for a third look for Lieutenant Commander. Lieutenants can request continuation up to 20 years of commissioned service as a Lieutenant. Continuation is dependent on the final adjudication of the request. Continuation is not automatic.

• The following LT designators are authorized a fourth look for LCDR: Information Professional (IP), Intelligence (Intel), Cryptologic Warfare (CW), Judge Advocate General’s Corps (JAG), Public Affairs Officer (PAO), Chaplain Corps (CHC), Medical Corps (MC), Dental Corps (DC), Medical Service Corps (MSC), Nurse Corps (NC), Oceanography (Oceano), Supply Corps (SC), Unrestricted Line (URL), Human resources (HR)

•  The officer will submit to SECNAV an exception to policy request via their chain of command.  The adjudicated request will be included with the retention request submitted to the PERS-9 Continuation and Retention Panel. The age 68 Waiver must be submitted to PERS-911D by the member’s 67^th birthday along with their retention request package.
   

 
Separation at Specified Age: An officer may not be retained in active status under this section later than the date on which the officer becomes 68 years of age.   The Secretary concerned may, with the consent of the officer, retain in an active status an officer in a medical specialty  beyond the date described above if the Secretary concerned determines that such retention is necessary to the military department concerned. Each such retention shall be made on a case-by-case basis and for such period as the Secretary concerned determines appropriate.
 
Officers who are eligible for retired pay and benefits at age 60 must request retention beyond age 60 to remain in the Navy Reserve until age 62.  Certain officers may be retained past age 62 but not later than the date they reach age 68.
 
Continuation Eligibility
Officers eligible for continuation are defined in Title 10 US Code, Chapter 1407, and SECNAV’s Retention and Continuation Plan (See link above right).
 
Retention Eligibility

     Retention Until Age 62     
Captains, Commanders, and Lieutenant Commanders, in the Medical Corps (2105), Dental Corps (2205), Nurse Corps (2905), Medical Service Corps (2305), (Designated to perform service as an optometrist, podiatrist, allied health officer, or biomedical sciences officer) and Chaplain Corps (4105) may be retained until age 62.
All officers (below flag rank) in any designator who have reached non-regular (reserve) retirement eligibility may, with the officer's consent and by order of the Secretary of the Navy, be retained until age 62.
 
      Retention Past Age 62

Captains, Commanders, and Lieutenant Commanders, in the Medical Corps (2105), Dental Corps (2205), Nurse Corps (2905), Medical Service Corps (2305), (Designated to perform service as an optometrist, podiatrist, allied health officer, or biomedical sciences officer) and Chaplain Corps (4105) may be retained past age 62 not to exceed age 68. Age 68 Waivers must be submitted to PERS-911D by the member’s 67 birthday.
 
Continuation and Retention Process
 
CONTINUATION AND RETENTION REQUESTS RESULTS LETTERS ARE EMAILED TO THE MEMBERS EMAIL ADDRESS LISTED IN NSIPS
Officers’ records will be screened by PERS-911D, and those eligible for continuation or retention will be notified 9 to 11 months before their mandatory attrition date and will be provided information on procedures for requesting continuation/retention.
 
Continuation/Retention Panels
Beginning January 2022, the submission deadline is the 15^th of the month prior to the following months’ panel.  If the 15^th falls on a weekend or holiday the packages will be due the last business day prior to the 15^th.  If a Continuation/Retention request is submitted after the 15^th, it will be held until the next panel. The only items needed in a continuation/retention package are the following:
 
a. Resolution of Status form
b. Letter from member
c. NRC CO endorsement
d. Gaining command CO endorsement if on  active duty orders
e. Other endorsements if member chooses
f. Copy of active duty orders: Mobilization, Recall, CANREC, and ADOS if on orders
g. All other items submitted will not be reviewed/considered.

Submit packages to Pers-911D.

Continuation/Retention Panel will meet monthly, on the 1st Wednesday of each month barring holidays.  The Panel considers the member's current status, history of participation/performance, community manning, correspondence to the panel, any adverse information (if applicable), active-duty orders currently serving under (if applicable), and any previous periods of continuation or retention (if applicable).

Your Continuation request should be submitted per the Correspondence Manual. e.g.
From:  CAPTAIN John S. Sailor, INTEL, 1835
To:  Commander, Navy Personnel Command (PERS-911D)
 
Subj: Request for Continuation or Retention
 
1.  Member needs to explain reason(s) for requesting continuation or retention.  For example, if a 2XFOS Lieutenant is requesting a third look for Lieutenant Commander. The time the member is requesting, for example, a 6 month extension to wait for Board results, to complete mobilization orders, to go beyond age 60, etc.

The results of the panel are promulgated by official letter normally within 10 business days after the panel results have been approved by PERS-9.

Change In Your Navy Reserve Status
As of 1FEB23 all Change In Your Navy Reserve Status letters are being emailed to your official email address in NSIPS.
It is imperative that you verify and update your email address in NSIPS so that you do not miss any communications and deadlines.