Westerville is a city in Delaware and Franklin counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. It is a northeastern suburb of Columbus. The population was 36,120 at the 2010 census. Westerville was once known as The Dry Capital of the World for its strict laws prohibiting sales of alcohol.
Mandatory separation. (a) An air traffic controller shall be separated from the service on the last day of the month in which he becomes 56 years of age or completes the age and service requirements for an annuity under section 8336(e), whichever occurs later.
The only person I've met that got an age waiver was in the Air Force and as they were applying received orders to Germany, and when he got there they would not sign his conditional release until he did at least two years or something, so that pushed him over the age limit.