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Title 10 - Armed Forces
Subtitle A - General Military Law (§§ 101 - 2925)
Part II - PERSONNEL (§§ 501 - 1805)
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Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 Edition, Title 10 - ARMED FORCES |
Category | Bills and Statutes |
Collection | United States Code |
SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
Contained Within | Title 10 - ARMED FORCES Subtitle A - General Military Law PART II - PERSONNEL |
Contains | sections 501 to 1805 |
Date | 2012 |
Laws in Effect as of Date | January 15, 2013 |
Positive Law | Yes |
Disposition | standard |
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Chapter 31 - ENLISTMENTS (§§ 501 - 520c)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 501 - Definition
- Section 502 - Enlistment oath: who may administer
- Section 503 - Enlistments: recruiting campaigns; compilation of directory information
- Section 504 - Persons not qualified
- Section 505 - Regular components: qualifications, term, grade
- Section 506 - Regular components: extension of enlistments during war
- Section 507 - Extension of enlistment for members needing medical care or hospitalization
- Section 508 - Reenlistment: qualifications
- Section 509 - Voluntary extension of enlistments: periods and benefits
- Section 510 - Enlistment incentives for pursuit of skills to facilitate national service
- Section 511 - College First Program
- Section 512 - Renumbered §12104
- Section 513 - Enlistments: Delayed Entry Program
- Section 514 - Bounties prohibited; substitutes prohibited
- Section 515 - Reenlistment after discharge as warrant officer
- Section 516 - Effect upon enlisted status of acceptance of appointment as cadet or midshipman
- Section 517 - Authorized daily average: members in pay grades E-8 and E-9
- Section 518 - Temporary enlistments
- Section 519 - Temporary enlistments: during war or emergency
- Section 520 - Limitation on enlistment and induction of persons whose score on the Armed Forces Qualification Test is below a prescribed level
- Section 520a - Repealed. Pub. L. 106-398, §1 [[div. A], title X, §1076(g)(1)], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A-282
- Section 520b - Applicants for enlistment: authority to use funds for the issue of authorized articles
- Section 520c - Recruiting functions: provision of meals and refreshments
- Chapter 32 - OFFICER STRENGTH AND DISTRIBUTION IN GRADE (§§ 521 - 528)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 521 - Authority to prescribe total strengths of officers on active duty and officer strengths in various categories
- Section 522 - Repealed. Pub. L. 108-375, div. A, title V, §501(b)(1), Oct. 28, 2004, 118 Stat. 1873
- Section 523 - Authorized strengths: commissioned officers on active duty in grades of major, lieutenant colonel, and colonel and Navy grades of lieutenant commander, commander, and captain
- Section 524 - Renumbered §12011
- Section 525 - Distribution of commissioned officers on active duty in general officer and flag officer grades
- Section 526 - Authorized strength: general and flag officers on active duty
- Section 527 - Authority to suspend sections 523, 525, and 526
- Section 528 - Officers serving in certain intelligence positions: military status; application of distribution and strength limitations; pay and allowances
- Chapter 33 - ORIGINAL APPOINTMENTS OF REGULAR OFFICERS IN GRADES ABOVE WARRANT OFFICER GRADES (§§ 531 - 565)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 531 - Original appointments of commissioned officers
- Section 532 - Qualifications for original appointment as a commissioned officer
- Section 533 - Service credit upon original appointment as a commissioned officer
- Section 541 - Graduates of the United States Military, Naval, and Air Force Academies
- Section 555 to 565 - Repealed. Pub. L. 102-190, div. A, title XI, §1112(a), Dec. 5, 1991, 105 Stat. 1492
- Chapter 33A - APPOINTMENT, PROMOTION, AND INVOLUNTARY SEPARATION AND RETIREMENT FOR MEMBERS ON THE WARRANT... (§§ 571 - 583)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 571 - Warrant officers: grades
- Section 572 - Warrant officers: original appointment; service credit
- Section 573 - Convening of selection boards
- Section 574 - Warrant officer active-duty lists; competitive categories; number to be recommended for promotion; promotion zones
- Section 575 - Recommendations for promotion by selection boards
- Section 576 - Information to be furnished to selection boards; selection procedures
- Section 577 - Promotions: effect of failure of selection for
- Section 578 - Promotions: how made; effective date
- Section 579 - Removal from a promotion list
- Section 580 - Regular warrant officers twice failing of selection for promotion: involuntary retirement or separation
- Section 580a - Enhanced authority for selective early discharges
- Section 581 - Selective retirement
- Section 582 - Warrant officer active-duty list: exclusions
- Section 583 - Definitions
- Chapter 34 - APPOINTMENTS AS RESERVE OFFICERS (§§ 591)
- Chapter 35 - TEMPORARY APPOINTMENTS IN OFFICER GRADES (§§ 601 - 604)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 601 - Positions of importance and responsibility: generals and lieutenant generals; admirals and vice admirals
- Section 602 - Repealed. Pub. L. 102-190, div. A, title XI, §1113(a), Dec. 5, 1991, 105 Stat. 1502
- Section 603 - Appointments in time of war or national emergency
- Section 604 - Senior joint officer positions: recommendations to the Secretary of Defense
- Chapter 36 - PROMOTION, SEPARATION, AND INVOLUNTARY RETIREMENT OF OFFICERS ON THE ACTIVE-DUTY LIST (§§ 611 - 647)
- Table Of Contents
- Subchapter I - SELECTION BOARDS (§§ 611 - 618)
- Subchapter II - PROMOTIONS (§§ 619 - 626)
- Subchapter III - FAILURE OF SELECTION FOR PROMOTION AND RETIREMENT FOR YEARS OF SERVICE (§§ 627 - 636)
- Subchapter IV - CONTINUATION ON ACTIVE DUTY AND SELECTIVE EARLY RETIREMENT (§§ 637 - 640)
- Subchapter V - ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO PROMOTION, SEPARATION, AND RETIREMENT (§§ 641 - 647)
- Chapter 37 - GENERAL SERVICE REQUIREMENTS (§§ 651 - 656)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 651 - Members: required service
- Section 652 - Notice to Congress of proposed changes in units, assignments, etc. to which female members may be assigned
- Section 653 - Minimum service requirement for certain flight crew positions
- Section 654 - Repealed. Pub. L. 111-321, §2(f)(1)(A), Dec. 22, 2010, 124 Stat. 3516
- Section 655 - Designation of persons having interest in status of a missing member
- Section 656 - Diversity in military leadership: plan
- Chapter 38 - JOINT OFFICER MANAGEMENT (§§ 661 - 668)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 661 - Management policies for joint qualified officers
- Section 662 - Promotion policy objectives for joint officers
- Section 663 - Joint duty assignments after completion of joint professional military education
- Section 664 - Length of joint duty assignments
- Section 665 - Procedures for monitoring careers of joint qualified officers
- Section 666 - Reserve officers not on the active-duty list
- Section 667 - Annual report to Congress
- Section 668 - Definitions
- Chapter 39 - ACTIVE DUTY (§§ 671 - 691)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 671 - Members not to be assigned outside United States before completing training
- Section 671a - Members: service extension during war
- Section 671b - Members: service extension when Congress is not in session
- Section 672 - Reference to chapter 1209
- Section 673 - Consideration of application for permanent change of station or unit transfer for members on active duty who are the victim of a sexual assault or related offense
- Section 673a - Renumbered §12303
- Section 673b - Renumbered §12304
- Section 673c - Renumbered §12305
- Section 674 - Renumbered §12306
- Section 675 - Renumbered §12307
- Section 676 - Renumbered §12308
- Section 677 - Renumbered §12309
- Section 678 - Renumbered §12310
- Section 679 - Renumbered §12311
- Section 680 - Renumbered §12312
- Section 681 - Renumbered §12313
- Section 682 - Renumbered §12314
- Section 683 - Renumbered §12315
- Section 684 - Renumbered §12316
- Section 685 - Renumbered §12317
- Section 686 - Renumbered §12318
- Section 687 - Renumbered §12319
- Section 688 - Retired members: authority to order to active duty; duties
- Section 688a - Retired members: temporary authority to order to active duty in high-demand, low-density assignments
- Section 689 - Retired members: grade in which ordered to active duty and upon release from active duty
- Section 690 - Retired members ordered to active duty: limitation on number
- Section 691 - Permanent end strength levels to support two major regional contingencies
- Chapter 40 - LEAVE (§§ 701 - 709)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 701 - Entitlement and accumulation
- Section 702 - Cadets and midshipmen
- Section 703 - Reenlistment leave
- Section 704 - Use of leave; regulations
- Section 705 - Rest and recuperation absence: qualified members extending duty at designated locations overseas
- Section 705a - Rest and recuperation absence: certain members undergoing extended deployment to a combat zone
- Section 706 - Administration of leave required to be taken
- Section 707 - Payment upon disapproval of certain court-martial sentences for excess leave required to be taken
- Section 707a - Payment upon disapproval of certain board of inquiry recommendations for excess leave required to be taken
- Section 708 - Educational leave of absence
- Section 709 - Emergency leave of absence
- Chapter 41 - SPECIAL APPOINTMENTS, ASSIGNMENTS, DETAILS, AND DUTIES (§§ 711 - 722)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 711 - Senior members of Military Staff Committee of United Nations: appointment
- Section 711a - American National Red Cross: detail of commissioned officers
- Section 712 - Foreign governments: detail to assist
- Section 713 - State Department: assignment or detail as couriers and building inspectors
- Section 714 - Repealed. Pub. L. 108-136, div. A, title V, §503(a), Nov. 24, 2003, 117 Stat. 1456
- Section 715 - Repealed. Pub. L. 103-337, div. A, title XVI, §1662(g)(2), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2996
- Section 716 - Commissioned officers: transfers among the armed forces, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Public Health Service
- Section 717 - Members of the armed forces: participation in international sports
- Section 718 - Repealed. Pub. L. 99-433, title I, §110(a)(1), Oct. 1, 1986, 100 Stat. 1001
- Section 719 - Department of Commerce: assignment or detail of members of the armed forces to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Section 720 - Chief of Staff to President: appointment
- Section 721 - Repealed. Pub. L. 111-84, div. A, title V, §502(i)(1), Oct. 28, 2009, 123 Stat. 2276
- Section 722 - Attending Physician to the Congress: grade
- Chapter 43 - RANK AND COMMAND (§§ 741 - 750)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 741 - Rank: commissioned officers of the armed forces
- Section 742 - Rank: warrant officers
- Section 743 - Rank: Chief of Staff of the Army; Chief of Naval Operations; Chief of Staff of the Air Force; Commandant of the Marine Corps
- Section 744 - Physician to White House: assignment; grade
- Section 745 - Repealed. Pub. L. 102-190, div. A, title XI, §1114(b), Dec. 5, 1991, 105 Stat. 1502
- Section 747 - Command: when different commands of Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard join
- Section 749 - Command: commissioned officers in same grade or corresponding grades on duty at same place
- Section 750 - Command: retired officers
- Chapter 45 - THE UNIFORM (§§ 771 - 777a)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 771 - Unauthorized wearing prohibited
- Section 771a - Disposition on discharge
- Section 772 - When wearing by persons not on active duty authorized
- Section 773 - When distinctive insignia required
- Section 774 - Religious apparel: wearing while in uniform
- Section 775 - Issue of uniform without charge
- Section 776 - Applicability of chapter
- Section 777 - Wearing of insignia of higher grade before promotion (frocking): authority; restrictions
- Section 777a - Wearing of insignia of higher grade before appointment to a grade above major general or rear admiral (frocking): authority; restrictions
- Chapter 47 - UNIFORM CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE (§§ 801 - 946)
- Subchapter I - GENERAL PROVISIONS (§§ 801 - 806a)
- Subchapter II - APPREHENSION AND RESTRAINT (§§ 807 - 814)
- Subchapter III - NON-JUDICIAL PUNISHMENT (§§ 815)
- Subchapter IV - COURT-MARTIAL JURISDICTION (§§ 816 - 821)
- Subchapter V - COMPOSITION OF COURTS-MARTIAL (§§ 822 - 829)
- Subchapter VI - PRE-TRIAL PROCEDURE (§§ 830 - 835)
- Subchapter VII - TRIAL PROCEDURE (§§ 836 - 854)
- Subchapter VIII - SENTENCES (§§ 855 - 858b)
- Subchapter IX - POST-TRIAL PROCEDURE AND REVIEW OF COURTS-MARTIAL (§§ 859 - 876b)
- Subchapter X - PUNITIVE ARTICLES (§§ 877 - 934)
- Subchapter XI - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS (§§ 935 - 940)
- Subchapter XII - UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ARMED FORCES (§§ 941 - 946)
- Chapter 47A - MILITARY COMMISSIONS (§§ 948a - 950t)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Subchapter I - GENERAL PROVISIONS (§§ 948a - 948d)
- Subchapter II - COMPOSITION OF MILITARY COMMISSIONS (§§ 948h - 948m)
- Subchapter III - PRE-TRIAL PROCEDURE (§§ 948q - 948s)
- Subchapter IV - TRIAL PROCEDURE (§§ 949a - 949o)
- Subchapter V - CLASSIFIED INFORMATION PROCEDURES (§§ 949p-1 - 949p-7)
- Subchapter VI - SENTENCES (§§ 949s - 949u)
- Subchapter VII - POST-TRIAL PROCEDURE AND REVIEW OF MILITARY COMMISSIONS (§§ 950a - 950j)
- Subchapter VIII - PUNITIVE MATTERS (§§ 950p - 950t)
- Chapter 48 - MILITARY CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES (§§ 951 - 956)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 951 - Establishment; organization; administration
- Section 952 - Parole
- Section 953 - Remission or suspension of sentence; restoration to duty; reenlistment
- Section 954 - Voluntary extension; probation
- Section 955 - Prisoners transferred to or from foreign countries
- Section 956 - Deserters, prisoners, members absent without leave: expenses and rewards
- Chapter 49 - MISCELLANEOUS PROHIBITIONS AND PENALTIES (§§ 971 - 987)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 971 - Service credit: officers may not count service performed while serving as cadet or midshipman
- Section 972 - Members: effect of time lost
- Section 973 - Duties: officers on active duty; performance of civil functions restricted
- Section 974 - Military musical units and musicians: performance policies; restriction on performance in competition with local civilian musicians
- Section 975 - Renumbered §2390
- Section 976 - Membership in military unions, organizing of military unions, and recognition of military unions prohibited
- Section 977 - Repealed. Pub. L. 108-375, div. A, title VI, §651(e)(1), Oct. 28, 2004, 118 Stat. 1972
- Section 978 - Drug and alcohol abuse and dependency: testing of new entrants
- Section 979 - Prohibition on loan and grant assistance to persons convicted of certain crimes
- Section 980 - Limitation on use of humans as experimental subjects
- Section 981 - Limitation on number of enlisted aides
- Section 982 - Members: service on State and local juries
- Section 983 - Institutions of higher education that prevent ROTC access or military recruiting on campus: denial of grants and contracts from Department of Defense, Department of Education, and certain other departments and agencies
- Section 985 - Persons convicted of capital crimes; certain other persons: denial of specified burial-related benefits
- Section 986 - Repealed. Pub. L. 110-181, div. A, title X, §1072(b)(1), Jan. 28, 2008, 122 Stat. 329
- Section 987 - Terms of consumer credit extended to members and dependents: limitations
- Chapter 50 - MISCELLANEOUS COMMAND RESPONSIBILITIES (§§ 991 - 994)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 991 - Management of deployments of members and measurement and data collection of unit operating and personnel tempo
- Section 992 - Consumer education: financial services
- Section 993 - Notification of permanent reduction of sizable numbers of members of the armed forces
- Section 994 - Military working dogs: veterinary care for retired military working dogs
- Chapter 51 - RESERVE COMPONENTS: STANDARDS AND PROCEDURES FOR RETENTION AND PROMOTION (§§ 1001)
- Chapter 53 - MISCELLANEOUS RIGHTS AND BENEFITS (§§ 1030 - 1060b)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 1030 - Bonus to encourage Department of Defense personnel to refer persons for appointment as officers to serve in health professions
- Section 1031 - Administration of oath
- Section 1032 - Disability and death compensation: dependents of members held as captives
- Section 1033 - Participation in management of specified non-Federal entities: authorized activities
- Section 1034 - Protected communications; prohibition of retaliatory personnel actions
- Section 1035 - Deposits of savings
- Section 1036 - Escorts for dependents of members: transportation and travel allowances
- Section 1037 - Counsel before foreign judicial tribunals and administrative agencies; court costs and bail
- Section 1038 - Service credit: certain service in Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
- Section 1039 - Crediting of minority service
- Section 1040 - Transportation of dependent patients
- Section 1041 - Replacement of certificate of discharge
- Section 1042 - Copy of certificate of service
- Section 1043 - Service credit: service in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or the Public Health Service
- Section 1044 - Legal assistance
- Section 1044a - Authority to act as notary
- Section 1044b - Military powers of attorney: requirement for recognition by States
- Section 1044c - Advance medical directives of members and dependents: requirement for recognition by States
- Section 1044d - Military testamentary instruments: requirement for recognition by States
- Section 1045 - Voluntary withholding of State income tax from retired or retainer pay
- Section 1046 - Overseas temporary foster care program
- Section 1047 - Allowance for civilian clothing
- Section 1048 - Gratuity payment to persons discharged for fraudulent enlistment
- Section 1049 - Subsistence: miscellaneous persons
- Section 1050 - Latin American cooperation: payment of personnel expenses
- Section 1050a - African cooperation: payment of personnel expenses
- Section 1051 - Multilateral, bilateral, or regional cooperation programs: payment of personnel expenses
- Section 1051a - Liaison officers of certain foreign nations; administrative services and support; travel, subsistence, medical care, and other personal expenses
- Section 1051b - Bilateral or regional cooperation programs: awards and mementos to recognize superior noncombat achievements or performance
- Section 1051c - Multilateral, bilateral, or regional cooperation programs: assignments to improve education and training in information security
- Section 1052 - Adoption expenses: reimbursement
- Section 1053 - Financial institution charges incurred because of Government error in direct deposit of pay: reimbursement
- Section 1053a - Expenses incurred in connection with leave canceled due to contingency operations: reimbursement
- Section 1054 - Defense of certain suits arising out of legal malpractice
- Section 1055 - Waiver of security deposits for members renting private housing; authority to indemnify landlord
- Section 1056 - Relocation assistance programs
- Section 1056a - Reintegration of recovered Department of Defense personnel; post-isolation support activities for other recovered personnel
- Section 1057 - Use of armed forces insignia on State license plates
- Section 1058 - Responsibilities of military law enforcement officials at scenes of domestic violence
- Section 1059 - Dependents of members separated for dependent abuse: transitional compensation; commissary and exchange benefits
- Section 1060 - Military service of retired members with newly democratic nations: consent of Congress
- Section 1060a - Special supplemental food program
- Section 1060b - Military ID cards: dependents and survivors of retirees
- Chapter 54 - COMMISSARY AND EXCHANGE BENEFITS (§§ 1061 - 1065)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 1061 - Survivors of certain Reserve and Guard members
- Section 1062 - Certain former spouses
- Section 1063 - Use of commissary stores and MWR retail facilities: members of reserve components and reserve retirees under age 60
- Section 1063a - Renumbered §1064
- Section 1064 - Use of commissary stores and MWR retail facilities: members of National Guard serving in federally declared disaster or national emergency
- Section 1065 - Renumbered §1063
- Chapter 55 - MEDICAL AND DENTAL CARE (§§ 1071 - 1110b)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 1071 - Purpose of this chapter
- Section 1072 - Definitions
- Section 1073 - Administration of this chapter
- Section 1073a - Contracts for health care: best value contracting
- Section 1073b - Recurring reports
- Section 1074 - Medical and dental care for members and certain former members
- Section 1074a - Medical and dental care: members on duty other than active duty for a period of more than 30 days
- Section 1074b - Medical and dental care: Academy cadets and midshipmen; members of, and designated applicants for membership in, Senior ROTC
- Section 1074c - Medical care: authority to provide a wig
- Section 1074d - Certain primary and preventive health care services
- Section 1074e - Medical care: certain Reserves who served in Southwest Asia during the Persian Gulf Conflict
- Section 1074f - Medical tracking system for members deployed overseas
- Section 1074g - Pharmacy benefits program
- Section 1074h - Medical and dental care: medal of honor recipients; dependents
- Section 1074i - Reimbursement for certain travel expenses
- Section 1074j - Sub-acute care program
- Section 1074k - Long-term care insurance
- Section 1074l - Notification to Congress of hospitalization of combat wounded members
- Section 1074m - Mental health assessments for members of the armed forces deployed in support of a contingency operation
- Section 1075 - Repealed. Pub. L. 108-375, div. A, title VI, §607(a)(1), Oct. 28, 2004, 118 Stat. 1946
- Section 1076 - Medical and dental care for dependents: general rule
- Section 1076a - TRICARE dental program
- Section 1076b - Repealed. Pub. L. 109-364, div. A, title VII, §706(d), Oct. 17, 2006, 120 Stat. 2282
- Section 1076c - Dental insurance plan: certain retirees and their surviving spouses and other dependents
- Section 1076d - TRICARE program: TRICARE Standard coverage for members of the Selected Reserve
- Section 1076e - TRICARE program: TRICARE Standard coverage for certain members of the Retired Reserve who are qualified for a non-regular retirement but are not yet age 60
- Section 1077 - Medical care for dependents: authorized care in facilities of uniformed services
- Section 1078 - Medical and dental care for dependents: charges
- Section 1078a - Continued health benefits coverage
- Section 1078b - Provision of food to certain members and dependents not receiving inpatient care in military medical treatment facilities
- Section 1079 - Contracts for medical care for spouses and children: plans
- Section 1079a - CHAMPUS: treatment of refunds and other amounts collected
- Section 1079b - Procedures for charging fees for care provided to civilians; retention and use of fees collected
- Section 1080 - Contracts for medical care for spouses and children: election of facilities
- Section 1081 - Contracts for medical care for spouses and children: review and adjustment of payments
- Section 1082 - Contracts for health care: advisory committees
- Section 1083 - Contracts for medical care for spouses and children: additional hospitalization
- Section 1084 - Determinations of dependency
- Section 1085 - Medical and dental care from another executive department: reimbursement
- Section 1086 - Contracts for health benefits for certain members, former members, and their dependents
- Section 1086a - Certain former spouses: extension of period of eligibility for health benefits
- Section 1086b - Prohibition against requiring retired members to receive health care solely through the Department of Defense
- Section 1087 - Programing facilities for certain members, former members, and their dependents in construction projects of the uniformed services
- Section 1088 - Air evacuation patients: furnished subsistence
- Section 1089 - Defense of certain suits arising out of medical malpractice
- Section 1090 - Identifying and treating drug and alcohol dependence
- Section 1090a - Commanding officer and supervisor referrals of members for mental health evaluations
- Section 1091 - Personal services contracts
- Section 1092 - Studies and demonstration projects relating to delivery of health and medical care
- Section 1092a - Persons entering the armed forces: baseline health data
- Section 1093 - Performance of abortions: restrictions
- Section 1094 - Licensure requirement for health-care professionals
- Section 1094a - Continuing medical education requirements: system for monitoring physician compliance
- Section 1095 - Health care services incurred on behalf of covered beneficiaries: collection from third-party payers
- Section 1095a - Medical care: members held as captives and their dependents
- Section 1095b - TRICARE program: contractor payment of certain claims
- Section 1095c - TRICARE program: facilitation of processing of claims
- Section 1095d - TRICARE program: waiver of certain deductibles
- Section 1095e - TRICARE program: beneficiary counseling and assistance coordinators
- Section 1095f - TRICARE program: referrals for specialty health care
- Section 1096 - Military-civilian health services partnership program
- Section 1097 - Contracts for medical care for retirees, dependents, and survivors: alternative delivery of health care
- Section 1097a - TRICARE Prime: automatic enrollments; payment options
- Section 1097b - TRICARE program: financial management
- Section 1097c - TRICARE program: relationship with employer-sponsored group health plans
- Section 1098 - Incentives for participation in cost-effective health care plans
- Section 1099 - Health care enrollment system
- Section 1100 - Defense Health Program Account
- Section 1101 - Resource allocation methods: capitation or diagnosis-related groups
- Section 1102 - Confidentiality of medical quality assurance records: qualified immunity for participants
- Section 1103 - Contracts for medical and dental care: State and local preemption
- Section 1104 - Sharing of health-care resources with the Department of Veterans Affairs
- Section 1105 - Specialized treatment facility program
- Section 1106 - Submittal of claims: standard form; time limits
- Section 1107 - Notice of use of an investigational new drug or a drug unapproved for its applied use
- Section 1107a - Emergency use products
- Section 1108 - Health care coverage through Federal Employees Health Benefits program: demonstration project
- Section 1109 - Organ and tissue donor program
- Section 1110 - Anthrax vaccine immunization program; procedures for exemptions and monitoring reactions
- Section 1110a - Notification of certain individuals regarding options for enrollment under Medicare part B
- Section 1110b - TRICARE program: extension of dependent coverage
- Chapter 56 - DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE MEDICARE-ELIGIBLE RETIREE HEALTH CARE FUND (§§ 1111 - 1117)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 1111 - Establishment and purpose of Fund; definitions; authority to enter into agreements
- Section 1112 - Assets of Fund
- Section 1113 - Payments from the Fund
- Section 1114 - Board of Actuaries
- Section 1115 - Determination of contributions to the Fund
- Section 1116 - Payments into the Fund
- Section 1117 - Investment of assets of Fund
- Chapter 57 - DECORATIONS AND AWARDS (§§ 1121 - 1135)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 1121 - Legion of Merit: award
- Section 1122 - Medal for Merit: award
- Section 1123 - Right to wear badges of military societies
- Section 1124 - Cash awards for disclosures, suggestions, inventions, and scientific achievements
- Section 1125 - Recognition for accomplishments: award of trophies
- Section 1126 - Gold star lapel button: eligibility and distribution
- Section 1127 - Precedence of the award of the Purple Heart
- Section 1128 - Prisoner-of-war medal: issue
- Section 1129 - Purple Heart: members killed or wounded in action by friendly fire
- Section 1130 - Consideration of proposals for decorations not previously submitted in timely fashion: procedures for review
- Section 1131 - Purple Heart: limitation to members of the armed forces
- Section 1132 - Presentation of decorations: prohibition on entering correctional facilities for presentation to prisoners convicted of serious violent felonies
- Section 1133 - Bronze Star: limitation on persons eligible to receive
- Section 1134 - Medal of honor: award to individual interred in Tomb of the Unknowns as representative of casualties of a war
- Section 1135 - Replacement of military decorations
- Chapter 58 - BENEFITS AND SERVICES FOR MEMBERS BEING SEPARATED OR RECENTLY SEPARATED (§§ 1141 - 1154)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 1141 - Involuntary separation defined
- Section 1142 - Preseparation counseling; transmittal of medical records to Department of Veterans Affairs
- Section 1143 - Employment assistance
- Section 1143a - Encouragement of postseparation public and community service
- Section 1144 - Employment assistance, job training assistance, and other transitional services: Department of Labor
- Section 1145 - Health benefits
- Section 1146 - Commissary and exchange benefits
- Section 1147 - Use of military family housing
- Section 1148 - Relocation assistance for personnel overseas
- Section 1149 - Excess leave and permissive temporary duty
- Section 1150 - Affiliation with Guard and Reserve units: waiver of certain limitations
- Section 1151 - Retention of assistive technology and services provided before separation
- Section 1152 - Assistance to eligible members and former members to obtain employment with law enforcement agencies
- Section 1153 - Assistance to separated members to obtain employment with health care providers
- Section 1154 - Assistance to eligible members and former members to obtain employment as teachers: Troops-to-Teachers Program
- Chapter 59 - SEPARATION (§§ 1161 - 1178)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 1161 - Commissioned officers: limitations on dismissal
- Section 1162, 1163 - Repealed. Pub. L. 103-337, div. A, title XVI, §1662(i)(2), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2998
- Section 1164 - Warrant officers: separation for age
- Section 1165 - Regular warrant officers: separation during three-year probationary period
- Section 1166 - Regular warrant officers: elimination for unfitness or unsatisfactory performance
- Section 1167 - Members under confinement by sentence of court-martial: separation after six months confinement
- Section 1168 - Discharge or release from active duty: limitations
- Section 1169 - Regular enlisted members: limitations on discharge
- Section 1170 - Regular enlisted members: minority discharge
- Section 1171 - Regular enlisted members: early discharge
- Section 1172 - Enlisted members: during war or emergency; discharge
- Section 1173 - Enlisted members: discharge for hardship
- Section 1174 - Separation pay upon involuntary discharge or release from active duty
- Section 1174a - Special separation benefits programs
- Section 1175 - Voluntary separation incentive
- Section 1175a - Voluntary separation pay and benefits
- Section 1176 - Enlisted members: retention after completion of 18 or more, but less than 20, years of service
- Section 1177 - Members diagnosed with or reasonably asserting post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury: medical examination required before administrative separation
- Section 1178 - System and procedures for tracking separations resulting from refusal to participate in anthrax vaccine immunization program
- Chapter 60 - SEPARATION OF REGULAR OFFICERS FOR SUBSTANDARD PERFORMANCE OF DUTY OR FOR CERTAIN OTHER REASONS (§§ 1181 - 1187)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 1181 - Authority to establish procedures to consider the separation of officers for substandard performance of duty and for certain other reasons
- Section 1182 - Boards of inquiry
- Section 1183 - Repealed. Pub. L. 105-261, div. A, title V, §503(a), Oct. 17, 1998, 112 Stat. 2003
- Section 1184 - Removal of officer: action by Secretary upon recommendation of board of inquiry
- Section 1185 - Rights and procedures
- Section 1186 - Officer considered for removal: voluntary retirement or discharge
- Section 1187 - Officers eligible to serve on boards
- Chapter 61 - RETIREMENT OR SEPARATION FOR PHYSICAL DISABILITY (§§ 1201 - 1222)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 1201 - Regulars and members on active duty for more than 30 days: retirement
- Section 1202 - Regulars and members on active duty for more than 30 days: temporary disability retired list
- Section 1203 - Regulars and members on active duty for more than 30 days: separation
- Section 1204 - Members on active duty for 30 days or less or on inactive-duty training: retirement
- Section 1205 - Members on active duty for 30 days or less: temporary disability retired list
- Section 1206 - Members on active duty for 30 days or less or on inactive-duty training: separation
- Section 1206a - Reserve component members unable to perform duties when ordered to active duty: disability system processing
- Section 1207 - Disability from intentional misconduct or willful neglect: separation
- Section 1207a - Members with over eight years of active service: eligibility for disability retirement for pre-existing conditions
- Section 1208 - Computation of service
- Section 1209 - Transfer to inactive status list instead of separation
- Section 1210 - Members on temporary disability retired list: periodic physical examination; final determination of status
- Section 1211 - Members on temporary disability retired list: return to active duty; promotion
- Section 1212 - Disability severance pay
- Section 1213 - Effect of separation on benefits and claims
- Section 1214 - Right to full and fair hearing
- Section 1214a - Members determined fit for duty in Physical Evaluation Board: prohibition on involuntary administrative separation or denial of reenlistment due to unsuitability based on medical conditions considered in evaluation
- Section 1215 - Members other than Regulars: applicability of laws
- Section 1216 - Secretaries: powers, functions, and duties
- Section 1216a - Determinations of disability: requirements and limitations on determinations
- Section 1217 - Academy cadets and midshipmen: applicability of chapter
- Section 1218 - Discharge or release from active duty: claims for compensation, pension, or hospitalization
- Section 1218a - Discharge or release from active duty: transition assistance for reserve component members injured while on active duty
- Section 1219 - Statement of origin of disease or injury: limitations
- Section 1220 - Repealed. Pub. L. 87-651, title I, §107(d), Sept. 7, 1962, 76 Stat. 509
- Section 1221 - Effective date of retirement or placement of name on temporary disability retired list
- Section 1222 - Physical evaluation boards
- Chapter 63 - RETIREMENT FOR AGE (§§ 1251 - 1275)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 1251 - Age 62: regular commissioned officers in grades below general and flag officer grades; exceptions
- Section 1252 - Age 64: permanent professors at academies
- Section 1253 - Age 64: regular commissioned officers in general and flag officer grades; exception
- Section 1255 - Repealed. Pub. L. 90-130, §1(6), Nov. 8, 1967, 81 Stat. 374
- Section 1263 - Age 62: warrant officers
- Section 1275 - Computation of retired pay: law applicable
- Chapter 65 - RETIREMENT OF WARRANT OFFICERS FOR LENGTH OF SERVICE (§§ 1293 - 1315)
- Chapter 67 - RETIRED PAY FOR NON-REGULAR SERVICE (§§ 1331)
- Chapter 69 - RETIRED GRADE (§§ 1370 - 1376)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 1370 - Commissioned officers: general rule; exceptions
- Section 1371 - Warrant officers: general rule
- Section 1372 - Grade on retirement for physical disability: members of armed forces
- Section 1373 - Higher grade for later physical disability: retired officers recalled to active duty
- Section 1374 - Repealed. Pub. L. 103-337, div. A, title XVI, §1662(k)(2), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 3006
- Section 1375 - Entitlement to commission: commissioned officers advanced on retired list
- Section 1376 - Temporary disability retired lists
- Chapter 71 - COMPUTATION OF RETIRED PAY (§§ 1401 - 1414)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 1401 - Computation of retired pay
- Section 1401a - Adjustment of retired pay and retainer pay to reflect changes in Consumer Price Index
- Section 1402 - Recomputation of retired or retainer pay to reflect later active duty of members who first became members before September 8, 1980
- Section 1402a - Recomputation of retired or retainer pay to reflect later active duty of members who first became members after September 7, 1980
- Section 1403 - Disability retired pay: treatment under Internal Revenue Code of 1986
- Section 1404 - Applicability of section 8301 of title 5
- Section 1405 - Years of service
- Section 1406 - Retired pay base for members who first became members before September 8, 1980: final basic pay
- Section 1407 - Retired pay base for members who first became members after September 7, 1980: high-36 month average
- Section 1407a - Retired pay base: officers retired in general or flag officer grades
- Section 1408 - Payment of retired or retainer pay in compliance with court orders
- Section 1409 - Retired pay multiplier
- Section 1410 - Restoral of full retirement amount at age 62 for certain members entering on or after August 1, 1986
- Section 1411 - Rules of construction
- Section 1412 - Administrative provisions
- Section 1413 - Repealed. Pub. L. 108-136, div. A, title VI, §641(b), Nov. 24, 2003, 117 Stat. 1514
- Section 1413a - Combat-related special compensation
- Section 1414 - Members eligible for retired pay who are also eligible for veterans’ disability compensation for disabilities rated 50 percent or higher: concurrent payment of retired pay and veterans’ disability compensation
- Chapter 73 - ANNUITIES BASED ON RETIRED OR RETAINER PAY (§§ 1431 - 1460b)
- Chapter 74 - DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE MILITARY RETIREMENT FUND (§§ 1461 - 1467)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 1461 - Establishment and purpose of Fund; definition
- Section 1462 - Assets of Fund
- Section 1463 - Payments from the Fund
- Section 1464 - Repealed. Pub. L. 110-181, div. A, title IX, §906(b)(1)(A), Jan. 28, 2008, 122 Stat. 277
- Section 1465 - Determination of contributions to the Fund
- Section 1466 - Payments into the Fund
- Section 1467 - Investment of assets of Fund
- Chapter 75 - DECEASED PERSONNEL (§§ 1471 - 1491)
- Chapter 76 - MISSING PERSONS (§§ 1501 - 1513)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 1501 - System for accounting for missing persons
- Section 1502 - Missing persons: initial report
- Section 1503 - Actions of Secretary concerned; initial board inquiry
- Section 1504 - Subsequent board of inquiry
- Section 1505 - Further review
- Section 1506 - Personnel files
- Section 1507 - Recommendation of status of death
- Section 1508 - Judicial review
- Section 1509 - Program to resolve preenactment missing person cases
- Section 1510 - Applicability to Coast Guard
- Section 1511 - Return alive of person declared missing or dead
- Section 1512 - Effect on State law
- Section 1513 - Definitions
- Chapter 77 - POSTHUMOUS COMMISSIONS AND WARRANTS (§§ 1521 - 1524)
- Chapter 79 - CORRECTION OF MILITARY RECORDS (§§ 1551 - 1559)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 1551 - Correction of name after separation from service under an assumed name
- Section 1552 - Correction of military records: claims incident thereto
- Section 1553 - Review of discharge or dismissal
- Section 1554 - Review of retirement or separation without pay for physical disability
- Section 1554a - Review of separation with disability rating of 20 percent disabled or less
- Section 1555 - Professional staff
- Section 1556 - Ex parte communications prohibited
- Section 1557 - Timeliness standards for disposition of applications before Corrections Boards
- Section 1558 - Review of actions of selection boards: correction of military records by special boards; judicial review
- Section 1559 - Personnel limitation
- Chapter 80 - MISCELLANEOUS INVESTIGATION REQUIREMENTS AND OTHER DUTIES (§§ 1561 - 1567a)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 1561 - Complaints of sexual harassment: investigation by commanding officers
- Section 1561a - Civilian orders of protection: force and effect on military installations
- Section 1562 - Database on domestic violence incidents
- Section 1563 - Consideration of proposals for posthumous and honorary promotions and appointments: procedures for review
- Section 1564 - Security clearance investigations
- Section 1564a - Counterintelligence polygraph program
- Section 1565 - DNA identification information: collection from certain offenders; use
- Section 1565a - DNA samples maintained for identification of human remains: use for law enforcement purposes
- Section 1565b - Victims of sexual assault: access to legal assistance and services of Sexual Assault Response Coordinators and Sexual Assault Victim Advocates
- Section 1566 - Voting assistance: compliance assessments; assistance
- Section 1566a - Voting assistance: voter assistance offices
- Section 1567 - Duration of military protective orders
- Section 1567a - Mandatory notification of issuance of military protective order to civilian law enforcement
- Chapter 81 - CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES (§§ 1580 - 1599d)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Section 1580 - Emergency essential employees: designation
- Section 1580a - Emergency essential employees: notification of required participation in anthrax vaccine immunization program
- Section 1581 - Foreign National Employees Separation Pay Account
- Section 1582 - Assistive technology, assistive technology devices, and assistive technology services
- Section 1583 - Employment of certain persons without pay
- Section 1584 - Employment of non-citizens
- Section 1585 - Carrying of firearms
- Section 1585a - Special agents of the Defense Criminal Investigative Service: authority to execute warrants and make arrests
- Section 1586 - Rotation of career-conditional and career employees assigned to duty outside the United States
- Section 1587 - Employees of nonappropriated fund instrumentalities: reprisals
- Section 1587a - Employees of nonappropriated fund instrumentalities: senior executive pay levels
- Section 1588 - Authority to accept certain voluntary services
- Section 1589 - Participation in management of specified non-Federal entities: authorized activities
- Section 1590 - Repealed. Pub. L. 104-201, div. A, title XVI, §1633(a), Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2751
- Section 1591 - Reimbursement for travel and transportation expenses when accompanying Members of Congress
- Section 1592 - Prohibition on payment of severance pay to foreign nationals in the event of certain overseas base closures
- Section 1593 - Uniform allowance: civilian employees
- Section 1594 - Reimbursement for financial institution charges incurred because of Government error in direct deposit of pay
- Section 1595 - Civilian faculty members at certain Department of Defense schools: employment and compensation
- Section 1596 - Foreign language proficiency: special pay for proficiency beneficial for intelligence interests
- Section 1596a - Foreign language proficiency: special pay for proficiency beneficial for other national security interests
- Section 1596b - Foreign language proficiency: National Foreign Language Skills Registry
- Section 1597 - Civilian positions: guidelines for reductions
- Section 1598 - Assistance to terminated employees to obtain certification and employment as teachers or employment as teachers’ aides
- Section 1599 - Renumbered §1611
- Section 1599a - Financial assistance to certain employees in acquisition of critical skills
- Section 1599b - Employees abroad: travel expenses; health care
- Section 1599c - Health care professionals: enhanced appointment and compensation authority for personnel for care and treatment of wounded and injured members of the armed forces
- Section 1599d - Financial management positions: authority to prescribe professional certification and credential standards
- Chapter 83 - CIVILIAN DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE EMPLOYEES (§§ 1601 - 1623)
- Chapter 87 - DEFENSE ACQUISITION WORKFORCE (§§ 1701 - 1764)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Subchapter I - GENERAL AUTHORITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES (§§ 1701 - 1707)
- Subchapter II - DEFENSE ACQUISITION POSITIONS (§§ 1721 - 1725)
- Subchapter III - ACQUISITION CORPS (§§ 1731 - 1737)
- Subchapter IV - EDUCATION AND TRAINING (§§ 1741 - 1748)
- Subchapter V - GENERAL MANAGEMENT PROVISIONS (§§ 1761 - 1764)
- Chapter 88 - MILITARY FAMILY PROGRAMS AND MILITARY CHILD CARE (§§ 1781 - 1800)
- Chapter 89 - REPEALED (§§ 1801 - 1805)
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