The officers are among 120 diplomats who were scheduled under the agency's rules to be involuntarily retired from their posts Sept. 30.

I've recommended that you be involuntarily retired if you didn't agree to request early retirement, the Secretary of Defense agreed, and it was done.

He sent a cable informing the recalcitrant Chairman that if he didn't offer his resignation he would be retired involuntarily.

So Sample sits in his Bergen County home in New Jersey, involuntarily retired at age 32.

They will be involuntarily retired Sept. 30, many of them at midpoint in their diplomatic careers.

If this was a tail, she decided, whoever was doing it should be involuntarily retired from law enforcement.

As required by law, Hershey was involuntarily retired from the army on April 10, 1973, at the age of 79, as a four-star general.

Yes, quite a lot of people are involuntarily retired under the age of 65, but I count these as unemployed.

Jason Patric (right) plays Nick Tellis, a former narcotics officer who has been involuntarily retired since he accidentally shot a pregnant woman.

He also oversees a career transition office for those who are "involuntarily retired."