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Title 10 - Armed Forces
Subtitle A - General Military Law
Part II - Personnel
| Publication Title | United States Code, 2018 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 | 2018 |
| Laws In Effect As Of Date | January 14, 2019 |
| Positive Law | Yes |
| Disposition | standard |
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
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Chapter 31 - Enlistments
(Sections 501 - 520c)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 501 - Definition
- Sec. 502 - Enlistment oath: who may administer
- Sec. 503 - Enlistments: recruiting campaigns; compilation of directory information
- Sec. 504 - Persons not qualified
- Sec. 505 - Regular components: qualifications, term, grade
- Sec. 506 - Regular components: extension of enlistments during war
- Sec. 507 - Extension of enlistment for members needing medical care or hospitalization
- Sec. 508 - Reenlistment: qualifications
- Sec. 509 - Voluntary extension of enlistments: periods and benefits
- Sec. 510 - Enlistment incentives for pursuit of skills to facilitate national service
- Sec. 511 - College First Program
- Sec. 512 - Renumbered §12104
- Sec. 513 - Enlistments: Delayed Entry Program
- Sec. 514 - Bounties prohibited; substitutes prohibited
- Sec. 515 - Reenlistment after discharge as warrant officer
- Sec. 516 - Effect upon enlisted status of acceptance of appointment as cadet or midshipman
- Sec. 517 - Authorized daily average: members in pay grades E-8 and E-9
- Sec. 518 - Temporary enlistments
- Sec. 519 - Temporary enlistments: during war or emergency
- Sec. 520 - Limitation on enlistment and induction of persons whose score on the Armed Forces Qualification Test is below a prescribed level
- Sec. 520a - Repealed. Pub. L. 106-398, §1 [[div. A
- Sec. 520b - Applicants for enlistment: authority to use funds for the issue of authorized articles
- Sec. 520c - Recruiting functions: provision of meals and refreshments
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Chapter 32 - Officer Strength and Distribution in Grade
(Sections 521 - 528)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 521 - Authority to prescribe total strengths of officers on active duty and officer strengths in various categories
- Sec. 522 - Repealed. Pub. L. 108-375, div. A, title V, §501(b)(1), Oct. 28, 2004, 118 Stat. 1873
- Sec. 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
- Sec. 524 - Renumbered §12011
- Sec. 525 - Distribution of commissioned officers on active duty in general officer and flag officer grades
- Sec. 526 - Authorized strength: general and flag officers on active duty
- Sec. 526a - Authorized strength after December 31, 2022: general officers and flag officers on active duty
- Sec. 527 - Authority to suspend sections 523, 525, and 526
- Sec. 528 - Officers serving in certain intelligence positions: military status; application of distribution and strength limitations; pay and allowances
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Chapter 33 - Original Appointments of Regular Officers in Grades Above Warrant Officer Grades
(Sections 531 - 565)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 531 - Original appointments of commissioned officers
- Sec. 532 - Qualifications for original appointment as a commissioned officer
- Sec. 533 - Service credit upon original appointment as a commissioned officer
- Sec. 541 - Graduates of the United States Military, Naval, and Air Force Academies
- Secs. 555 to 565 - Repealed. Pub. L. 102-190, div. A, title XI, §1112(a), Dec. 5, 1991, 105 Stat. 1492
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Chapter 33A - Appointment, Promotion, and Involuntary Separation and Retirement for Members on the Warrant Officer Active-Duty List
(Sections 571 - 583)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 571 - Warrant officers: grades
- Sec. 572 - Warrant officers: original appointment; service credit
- Sec. 573 - Convening of selection boards
- Sec. 574 - Warrant officer active-duty lists; competitive categories; number to be recommended for promotion; promotion zones
- Sec. 575 - Recommendations for promotion by selection boards
- Sec. 576 - Information to be furnished to selection boards; selection procedures
- Sec. 577 - Promotions: effect of failure of selection for
- Sec. 578 - Promotions: how made; effective date
- Sec. 579 - Removal from a promotion list
- Sec. 580 - Regular warrant officers twice failing of selection for promotion: involuntary retirement or separation
- Sec. 580a - Enhanced authority for selective early discharges
- Sec. 581 - Selective retirement
- Sec. 582 - Warrant officer active-duty list: exclusions
- Sec. 583 - Definitions
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Chapter 35 - Temporary Appointments in Officer Grades
(Sections 601 - 605)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 601 - Positions of importance and responsibility: generals and lieutenant generals; admirals and vice admirals
- Sec. 602 - Repealed. Pub. L. 102-190, div. A, title XI, §1113(a), Dec. 5, 1991, 105 Stat. 1502
- Sec. 603 - Appointments in time of war or national emergency
- Sec. 604 - Senior joint officer positions: recommendations to the Secretary of Defense
- Sec. 605 - Promotion to certain grades for officers with critical skills: colonel, lieutenant colonel, major, captain; captain, commander, lieutenant commander, lieutenant
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Chapter 36 - Promotion, Separation, and Involuntary Retirement of Officers on the Active-Duty List
(Sections 611 - 649k)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Subchapter I - Selection Boards (Sections 611 - 618)
- Subchapter II - Promotions (Sections 619 - 626)
- Subchapter III - Failure of Selection for Promotion and Retirement for Years of Service (Sections 627 - 636)
- Subchapter IV - Continuation on Active Duty and Selective Early Retirement (Sections 637 - 640)
- Subchapter V - Additional Provisions Relating to Promotion, Separation, and Retirement (Sections 641 - 647)
- Subchapter VI - Alternative Promotion Authority for Officers in Designated Competitive Categories (Sections 649a - 649k)
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Chapter 37 - General Service Requirements
(Sections 651 - 657)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 651 - Members: required service
- Sec. 652 - Notice to Congress of proposed changes in units, assignments, etc. to which female members may be assigned
- Sec. 653 - Minimum service requirement for certain flight crew positions
- Sec. 654 - Repealed. Pub. L. 111-321, §2(f)(1)(A), Dec. 22, 2010, 124 Stat. 3516
- Sec. 655 - Designation of persons having interest in status of a missing member
- Sec. 656 - Diversity in military leadership: plan
- Sec. 657 - Prohibition on service in the armed forces by individuals convicted of certain sexual offenses
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Chapter 38 - Joint Officer Management
(Sections 661 - 668)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 661 - Management policies for joint qualified officers
- Sec. 662 - Promotion policy objectives for joint officers
- Sec. 663 - Joint duty assignments after completion of joint professional military education
- Sec. 664 - Length of joint duty assignments
- Sec. 665 - Procedures for monitoring careers of joint qualified officers
- Sec. 666 - Reserve officers not on the active-duty list
- Sec. 667 - Repealed. Pub. L. 113-291, div. A, title V, §505(a)(1), Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3356
- Sec. 668 - Definitions
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Chapter 39 - Active Duty
(Sections 671 - 691)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 671 - Members not to be assigned outside United States before completing training
- Sec. 671a - Members: service extension during war
- Sec. 671b - Members: service extension when Congress is not in session
- Sec. 672 - Reference to chapter 1209
- Sec. 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
- Sec. 673a - Renumbered §12303
- Sec. 673b - Renumbered §12304
- Sec. 673c - Renumbered §12305
- Sec. 674 - Temporary administrative reassignment or removal of a member on active duty accused of committing a sexual assault or related offense
- Sec. 675 - Renumbered §12307
- Sec. 676 - Renumbered §12308
- Sec. 677 - Renumbered §12309
- Sec. 678 - Renumbered §12310
- Sec. 679 - Renumbered §12311
- Sec. 680 - Renumbered §12312
- Sec. 681 - Renumbered §12313
- Sec. 682 - Renumbered §12314
- Sec. 683 - Renumbered §12315
- Sec. 684 - Renumbered §12316
- Sec. 685 - Renumbered §12317
- Sec. 686 - Renumbered §12318
- Sec. 687 - Renumbered §12319
- Sec. 688 - Retired members: authority to order to active duty; duties
- Sec. 688a - Retired members: temporary authority to order to active duty in high-demand, low-density assignments
- Sec. 689 - Retired members: grade in which ordered to active duty and upon release from active duty
- Sec. 690 - Retired members ordered to active duty: limitation on number
- Sec. 691 - Permanent end strength levels to support two major regional contingencies
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Chapter 40 - Leave
(Sections 701 - 710)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 701 - Entitlement and accumulation
- Sec. 702 - Cadets and midshipmen
- Sec. 703 - Reenlistment leave
- Sec. 704 - Use of leave; regulations
- Sec. 704a - Administration of leave: prohibition on authorizing, granting, or assigning leave not expressly authorized by law
- Sec. 705 - Rest and recuperation absence: qualified members extending duty at designated locations overseas
- Sec. 705a - Rest and recuperation absence: certain members undergoing extended deployment to a combat zone
- Sec. 706 - Administration of leave required to be taken
- Sec. 707 - Payment upon disapproval of certain court-martial sentences for excess leave required to be taken
- Sec. 707a - Payment upon disapproval of certain board of inquiry recommendations for excess leave required to be taken
- Sec. 708 - Educational leave of absence
- Sec. 709 - Emergency leave of absence
- Sec. 709a - Expenses incurred in connection with leave canceled due to contingency operations: reimbursement
- Sec. 710 - Career flexibility to enhance retention of members
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Chapter 41 - Special Appointments, Assignments, Details, and Duties
(Sections 711 - 722)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 711 - Senior members of Military Staff Committee of United Nations: appointment
- Sec. 711a - American National Red Cross: detail of commissioned officers
- Sec. 712 - Foreign governments: detail to assist
- Sec. 713 - State Department: assignment or detail as couriers and building inspectors
- Sec. 714 - Senior leaders of the Department of Defense and other specified persons: authority to provide protection within the United States
- Sec. 715 - Attending Physician to the Congress: grade
- Sec. 716 - Commissioned officers: transfers among the armed forces, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Public Health Service
- Sec. 717 - Members of the armed forces: participation in international sports
- Sec. 718 - Repealed. Pub. L. 99-433, title I, §110(a)(1), Oct. 1, 1986, 100 Stat. 1001
- Sec. 719 - Department of Commerce: assignment or detail of members of the armed forces to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Sec. 720 - Repealed. Pub. L. 114-328, div. A, title V, §502(g)(1), Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2103
- Sec. 721 - Repealed. Pub. L. 111-84, div. A, title V, §502(i)(1), Oct. 28, 2009, 123 Stat. 2276
- Sec. 722 - Repealed. Pub. L. 114-328, div. A, title V, §502(h)(1), Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2103
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Chapter 43 - Rank and Command
(Sections 741 - 750)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 741 - Rank: commissioned officers of the armed forces
- Sec. 742 - Rank: warrant officers
- Sec. 743 - Rank: Chief of Staff of the Army; Chief of Naval Operations; Chief of Staff of the Air Force; Commandant of the Marine Corps
- Sec. 744 - Repealed. Pub. L. 114-328, div. A, title V, §502(i)(1), Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2103
- Sec. 745 - Repealed. Pub. L. 102-190, div. A, title XI, §1114(b), Dec. 5, 1991, 105 Stat. 1502
- Sec. 747 - Command: when different commands of Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard join
- Sec. 749 - Command: commissioned officers in same grade or corresponding grades on duty at same place
- Sec. 750 - Command: retired officers
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Chapter 45 - The Uniform
(Sections 771 - 777a)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 771 - Unauthorized wearing prohibited
- Sec. 771a - Disposition on discharge
- Sec. 772 - When wearing by persons not on active duty authorized
- Sec. 773 - When distinctive insignia required
- Sec. 774 - Religious apparel: wearing while in uniform
- Sec. 775 - Issue of uniform without charge
- Sec. 776 - Applicability of chapter
- Sec. 777 - Wearing of insignia of higher grade before promotion (frocking): authority; restrictions
- Sec. 777a - Wearing of insignia of higher grade before appointment to a grade above major general or rear admiral (frocking): authority; restrictions
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Chapter 47 - Uniform Code of Military Justice
(Sections 801 - 946a)
- Subchapter I - General Provisions (Sections 801 - 806b)
- Subchapter II - Apprehension and Restraint (Sections 807 - 814)
- Subchapter III - Non-Judicial Punishment (Sections 815 - 815)
- Subchapter IV - Court-Martial Jurisdiction (Sections 816 - 821)
- Subchapter V - Composition of Courts-Martial (Sections 822 - 829)
- Subchapter VI - Pre-Trial Procedure (Sections 830 - 835)
- Subchapter VII - Trial Procedure (Sections 836 - 854)
- Subchapter VIII - Sentences (Sections 855 - 858b)
- Subchapter IX - Post-Trial Procedure and Review of Courts-Martial (Sections 859 - 876b)
- Subchapter X - Punitive Articles (Sections 877 - 934)
- Subchapter XI - Miscellaneous Provisions (Sections 935 - 940a)
- Subchapter XII - United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (Sections 941 - 946a)
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Chapter 47A - Military Commissions
(Sections 948a - 950t)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Subchapter I - General Provisions (Sections 948a - 948d)
- Subchapter II - Composition of Military Commissions (Sections 948h - 948m)
- Subchapter III - Pre-Trial Procedure (Sections 948q - 948s)
- Subchapter IV - Trial Procedure (Sections 949a - 949o)
- Subchapter V - Classified Information Procedures (Sections 949p-1 - 949p-7)
- Subchapter VI - Sentences (Sections 949s - 949u)
- Subchapter VII - Post-Trial Procedure and Review of Military Commissions (Sections 950a - 950j)
- Subchapter VIII - Punitive Matters (Sections 950p - 950t)
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Chapter 48 - Military Correctional Facilities
(Sections 951 - 956)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 951 - Establishment; organization; administration
- Sec. 952 - Parole
- Sec. 953 - Remission or suspension of sentence; restoration to duty; reenlistment
- Sec. 954 - Voluntary extension; probation
- Sec. 955 - Prisoners transferred to or from foreign countries
- Sec. 956 - Deserters, prisoners, members absent without leave: expenses and rewards
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Chapter 49 - Miscellaneous Prohibitions and Penalties
(Sections 971 - 987)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 971 - Service credit: officers may not count service performed while serving as cadet or midshipman
- Sec. 972 - Members: effect of time lost
- Sec. 973 - Duties: officers on active duty; performance of civil functions restricted
- Sec. 974 - Military musical units and musicians: performance policies; restriction on performance in competition with local civilian musicians
- Sec. 975 - Renumbered §2390
- Sec. 976 - Membership in military unions, organizing of military unions, and recognition of military unions prohibited
- Sec. 977 - Conversion of military medical and dental positions to civilian medical and dental positions: limitation
- Sec. 978 - Drug and alcohol abuse and dependency: testing of new entrants
- Sec. 979 - Prohibition on loan and grant assistance to persons convicted of certain crimes
- Sec. 980 - Limitation on use of humans as experimental subjects
- Sec. 981 - Limitation on number of enlisted aides
- Sec. 982 - Members: service on State and local juries
- Sec. 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
- Sec. 985 - Persons convicted of capital crimes; certain other persons: denial of specified burial-related benefits
- Sec. 986 - Repealed. Pub. L. 110-181, div. A, title X, §1072(b)(1), Jan. 28, 2008, 122 Stat. 329
- Sec. 987 - Terms of consumer credit extended to members and dependents: limitations
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Chapter 50 - Miscellaneous Command Responsibilities
(Sections 991 - 994)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 991 - Management of deployments of members and measurement and data collection of unit operating and personnel tempo
- Sec. 992 - Financial literacy training: financial services
- Sec. 993 - Notification of permanent reduction of sizable numbers of members of the armed forces
- Sec. 994 - Military working dogs: veterinary care for retired military working dogs
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Chapter 53 - Miscellaneous Rights and Benefits
(Sections 1030 - 1060b)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 1030 - Bonus to encourage Department of Defense personnel to refer persons for appointment as officers to serve in health professions
- Sec. 1031 - Administration of oath
- Sec. 1032 - Disability and death compensation: dependents of members held as captives
- Sec. 1033 - Participation in management of specified non-Federal entities: authorized activities
- Sec. 1034 - Protected communications; prohibition of retaliatory personnel actions
- Sec. 1035 - Deposits of savings
- Sec. 1036 - Repealed. Pub. L. 113-66, div. A, title VI, §621(a)(2)(A), Dec. 26, 2013, 127 Stat. 783
- Sec. 1037 - Counsel before foreign judicial tribunals and administrative agencies; court costs and bail
- Sec. 1038 - Service credit: certain service in Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
- Sec. 1039 - Crediting of minority service
- Sec. 1040 - Transportation of dependent patients
- Sec. 1041 - Replacement of certificate of discharge
- Sec. 1042 - Copy of certificate of service
- Sec. 1043 - Service credit: service in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or the Public Health Service
- Sec. 1044 - Legal assistance
- Sec. 1044a - Authority to act as notary
- Sec. 1044b - Military powers of attorney: requirement for recognition by States
- Sec. 1044c - Advance medical directives of members and dependents: requirement for recognition by States
- Sec. 1044d - Military testamentary instruments: requirement for recognition by States
- Sec. 1044e - Special Victims' Counsel for victims of sex-related offenses
- Sec. 1045 - Voluntary withholding of State income tax from retired or retainer pay
- Sec. 1046 - Overseas temporary foster care program
- Sec. 1047 - Allowance for civilian clothing
- Sec. 1048 - Gratuity payment to persons discharged for fraudulent enlistment
- Sec. 1049 - Subsistence: miscellaneous persons
- Sec. 1050 - Repealed. Pub. L. 114-328, div. A, title XII, §1243(b)(1), Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2516
- Secs. 1050a to 1051a - Repealed. Pub. L. 114-328, div. A, title XII, §1243(b)(1), Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2516
- Sec. 1051b - Renumbered §313
- Sec. 1051c - Repealed. Pub. L. 114-328, div. A, title XII, §1253(a)(1)(B), Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2532
- Sec. 1052 - Adoption expenses: reimbursement
- Sec. 1053 - Financial institution charges incurred because of Government error in direct deposit of pay: reimbursement
- Sec. 1053a - Repealed. Pub. L. 113-66, div. A, title VI, §621(c)(2)(A), Dec. 26, 2013, 127 Stat. 784
- Sec. 1054 - Defense of certain suits arising out of legal malpractice
- Sec. 1055 - Waiver of security deposits for members renting private housing; authority to indemnify landlord
- Sec. 1056 - Relocation assistance programs
- Sec. 1056a - Reintegration of recovered Department of Defense personnel; post-isolation support activities for other recovered personnel
- Sec. 1057 - Use of armed forces insignia on State license plates
- Sec. 1058 - Responsibilities of military law enforcement officials at scenes of domestic violence
- Sec. 1059 - Dependents of members separated for dependent abuse: transitional compensation; commissary and exchange benefits
- Sec. 1060 - Military service of retired members with newly democratic nations: consent of Congress
- Sec. 1060a - Special supplemental food program
- Sec. 1060b - Military ID cards: dependents and survivors of retirees
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Chapter 54 - Commissary and Exchange Benefits
(Sections 1061 - 1065)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 1061 - Survivors of certain Reserve and Guard members
- Sec. 1062 - Certain former spouses
- Sec. 1063 - Use of commissary stores and MWR retail facilities: members of reserve components and reserve retirees under age 60
- Sec. 1063a - Renumbered §1064
- Sec. 1064 - Use of commissary stores and MWR retail facilities: members of National Guard serving in federally declared disaster or national emergency
- Sec. 1065 - Use of commissary stores and MWR facilities: certain veterans and caregivers for veterans
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Chapter 55 - Medical and Dental Care
(Sections 1071 - 1110b)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 1071 - Purpose of this chapter
- Sec. 1072 - Definitions
- Sec. 1073 - Administration of this chapter
- Sec. 1073a - Contracts for health care: best value contracting
- Sec. 1073b - Recurring reports and publication of certain data
- Sec. 1073c - Administration of Defense Health Agency and military medical treatment facilities
- Sec. 1073d - Military medical treatment facilities
- Sec. 1074 - Medical and dental care for members and certain former members
- Sec. 1074a - Medical and dental care: members on duty other than active duty for a period of more than 30 days
- Sec. 1074b - Medical and dental care: Academy cadets and midshipmen; members of, and designated applicants for membership in, Senior ROTC
- Sec. 1074c - Medical care: authority to provide a wig
- Sec. 1074d - Certain primary and preventive health care services
- Sec. 1074e - Medical care: certain Reserves who served in Southwest Asia during the Persian Gulf Conflict
- Sec. 1074f - Medical tracking system for members deployed overseas
- Sec. 1074g - Pharmacy benefits program
- Sec. 1074h - Medical and dental care: medal of honor recipients; dependents
- Sec. 1074i - Reimbursement for certain travel expenses
- Sec. 1074j - Sub-acute care program
- Sec. 1074k - Long-term care insurance
- Sec. 1074l - Notification to Congress of hospitalization of combat wounded members
- Sec. 1074m - Mental health assessments for members of the armed forces deployed in support of a contingency operation
- Sec. 1074n - Annual mental health assessments for members of the armed forces
- Sec. 1074o - Provision of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for certain members
- Sec. 1075 - TRICARE Select
- Sec. 1075a - TRICARE Prime: cost sharing
- Sec. 1076 - Medical and dental care for dependents: general rule
- Sec. 1076a - TRICARE dental program
- Sec. 1076b - Repealed. Pub. L. 109-364, div. A, title VII, §706(d), Oct. 17, 2006, 120 Stat. 2282
- Sec. 1076c - Dental insurance plan: certain retirees and their surviving spouses and other dependents
- Sec. 1076d - TRICARE program: TRICARE Reserve Select coverage for members of the Selected Reserve
- Sec. 1076e - TRICARE program: TRICARE Retired Reserve coverage for certain members of the Retired Reserve who are qualified for a non-regular retirement but are not yet age 60
- Sec. 1076f - TRICARE program: extension of coverage for certain members of the National Guard and dependents during certain disaster response duty
- Sec. 1077 - Medical care for dependents: authorized care in facilities of uniformed services
- Sec. 1077a - Access to military medical treatment facilities and other facilities
- Sec. 1078 - Medical and dental care for dependents: charges
- Sec. 1078a - Continued health benefits coverage
- Sec. 1078b - Provision of food to certain members and dependents not receiving inpatient care in military medical treatment facilities
- Sec. 1079 - Contracts for medical care for spouses and children: plans
- Sec. 1079a - TRICARE program: treatment of refunds and other amounts collected
- Sec. 1079b - Procedures for charging fees for care provided to civilians; retention and use of fees collected
- Sec. 1079c - Provisional coverage for emerging services and supplies
- Sec. 1080 - Contracts for medical care for spouses and children: election of facilities
- Sec. 1081 - Contracts for medical care for spouses and children: review and adjustment of payments
- Sec. 1082 - Contracts for health care: advisory committees
- Sec. 1083 - Contracts for medical care for spouses and children: additional hospitalization
- Sec. 1084 - Determinations of dependency
- Sec. 1085 - Medical and dental care from another executive department: reimbursement
- Sec. 1086 - Contracts for health benefits for certain members, former members, and their dependents
- Sec. 1086a - Certain former spouses: extension of period of eligibility for health benefits
- Sec. 1086b - Prohibition against requiring retired members to receive health care solely through the Department of Defense
- Sec. 1087 - Programing facilities for certain members, former members, and their dependents in construction projects of the uniformed services
- Sec. 1088 - Air evacuation patients: furnished subsistence
- Sec. 1089 - Defense of certain suits arising out of medical malpractice
- Sec. 1090 - Identifying and treating drug and alcohol dependence
- Sec. 1090a - Commanding officer and supervisor referrals of members for mental health evaluations
- Sec. 1091 - Personal services contracts
- Sec. 1092 - Studies and demonstration projects relating to delivery of health and medical care
- Sec. 1092a - Persons entering the armed forces: baseline health data
- Sec. 1093 - Performance of abortions: restrictions
- Sec. 1094 - Licensure requirement for health-care professionals
- Sec. 1094a - Continuing medical education requirements: system for monitoring physician compliance
- Sec. 1095 - Health care services incurred on behalf of covered beneficiaries: collection from third-party payers
- Sec. 1095a - Medical care: members held as captives and their dependents
- Sec. 1095b - TRICARE program: contractor payment of certain claims
- Sec. 1095c - TRICARE program: facilitation of processing of claims
- Sec. 1095d - TRICARE program: waiver of certain deductibles
- Sec. 1095e - TRICARE program: beneficiary counseling and assistance coordinators
- Sec. 1095f - TRICARE program: referrals and preauthorizations under TRICARE Prime
- Sec. 1095g - TRICARE program: waiver of recoupment of erroneous payments caused by administrative error
- Sec. 1096 - Military-civilian health services partnership program
- Sec. 1097 - Contracts for medical care for retirees, dependents, and survivors: alternative delivery of health care
- Sec. 1097a - TRICARE Prime: automatic enrollments; payment options
- Sec. 1097b - TRICARE program: financial management
- Sec. 1097c - TRICARE program: relationship with employer-sponsored group health plans
- Sec. 1097d - TRICARE program: notice of change to benefits
- Sec. 1098 - Incentives for participation in cost-effective health care plans
- Sec. 1099 - Health care enrollment system
- Sec. 1100 - Defense Health Program Account
- Sec. 1101 - Resource allocation methods: capitation or diagnosis-related groups
- Sec. 1102 - Confidentiality of medical quality assurance records: qualified immunity for participants
- Sec. 1103 - Contracts for medical and dental care: State and local preemption
- Sec. 1104 - Sharing of health-care resources with the Department of Veterans Affairs
- Sec. 1105 - Specialized treatment facility program
- Sec. 1106 - Submittal of claims: standard form; time limits
- Sec. 1107 - Notice of use of an investigational new drug or a drug unapproved for its applied use
- Sec. 1107a - Emergency use products
- Sec. 1108 - Health care coverage through Federal Employees Health Benefits program: demonstration project
- Sec. 1109 - Organ and tissue donor program
- Sec. 1110 - Anthrax vaccine immunization program; procedures for exemptions and monitoring reactions
- Sec. 1110a - Notification of certain individuals regarding options for enrollment under Medicare part B
- Sec. 1110b - TRICARE program: extension of dependent coverage
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Chapter 56 - Department of Defense Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Care Fund
(Sections 1111 - 1117)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 1111 - Establishment and purpose of Fund; definitions; authority to enter into agreements
- Sec. 1112 - Assets of Fund
- Sec. 1113 - Payments from the Fund
- Sec. 1114 - Board of Actuaries
- Sec. 1115 - Determination of contributions to the Fund
- Sec. 1116 - Payments into the Fund
- Sec. 1117 - Investment of assets of Fund
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Chapter 57 - Decorations and Awards
(Sections 1121 - 1135)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 1121 - Legion of Merit: award
- Sec. 1122 - Medal for Merit: award
- Sec. 1123 - Right to wear badges of military societies
- Sec. 1124 - Cash awards for disclosures, suggestions, inventions, and scientific achievements
- Sec. 1125 - Recognition for accomplishments: award of trophies
- Sec. 1126 - Gold star lapel button: eligibility and distribution
- Sec. 1127 - Precedence of the award of the Purple Heart
- Sec. 1128 - Prisoner-of-war medal: issue
- Sec. 1129 - Purple Heart: members killed or wounded in action by friendly fire
- Sec. 1129a - Purple Heart: members killed or wounded in attacks by foreign terrorist organizations
- Sec. 1130 - Consideration of proposals for decorations not previously submitted in timely fashion: procedures for review
- Sec. 1131 - Purple Heart: limitation to members of the armed forces
- Sec. 1132 - Presentation of decorations: prohibition on entering correctional facilities for presentation to prisoners convicted of serious violent felonies
- Sec. 1133 - Bronze Star: limitation on persons eligible to receive
- Sec. 1134 - Medal of honor: award to individual interred in Tomb of the Unknowns as representative of casualties of a war
- Sec. 1134a - Medal of honor: Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard Medal of Honor Roll
- Sec. 1135 - Replacement of military decorations
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Chapter 58 - Benefits and Services for Members Being Separated or Recently Separated
(Sections 1141 - 1155)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 1141 - Involuntary separation defined
- Sec. 1142 - Preseparation counseling; transmittal of certain records to Department of Veterans Affairs
- Sec. 1143 - Employment assistance
- Sec. 1143a - Repealed. Pub. L. 115-232, div. A, title V, §553(a)(1), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1772
- Sec. 1144 - Employment assistance, job training assistance, and other transitional services: Department of Labor
- Sec. 1145 - Health benefits
- Sec. 1146 - Commissary and exchange benefits
- Sec. 1147 - Use of military family housing
- Sec. 1148 - Relocation assistance for personnel overseas
- Sec. 1149 - Excess leave and permissive temporary duty
- Sec. 1150 - Affiliation with Guard and Reserve units: waiver of certain limitations
- Sec. 1151 - Retention of assistive technology and services provided before separation
- Sec. 1152 - Assistance to eligible members and former members to obtain employment with law enforcement agencies
- Sec. 1153 - Assistance to separated members to obtain employment with health care providers
- Sec. 1154 - Assistance to eligible members and former members to obtain employment as teachers: Troops-to-Teachers Program
- Sec. 1155 - Statement of benefits
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Chapter 59 - Separation
(Sections 1161 - 1178)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 1161 - Commissioned officers: limitations on dismissal
- Secs. 1162, 1163 - Repealed. Pub. L. 103-337, div. A, title XVI, §1662(i)(2), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2998
- Sec. 1164 - Warrant officers: separation for age
- Sec. 1165 - Regular warrant officers: separation during three-year probationary period
- Sec. 1166 - Regular warrant officers: elimination for unfitness or unsatisfactory performance
- Sec. 1167 - Members under confinement by sentence of court-martial: separation after six months confinement
- Sec. 1168 - Discharge or release from active duty: limitations
- Sec. 1169 - Regular enlisted members: limitations on discharge
- Sec. 1170 - Regular enlisted members: minority discharge
- Sec. 1171 - Regular enlisted members: early discharge
- Sec. 1172 - Enlisted members: during war or emergency; discharge
- Sec. 1173 - Enlisted members: discharge for hardship
- Sec. 1174 - Separation pay upon involuntary discharge or release from active duty
- Sec. 1174a - Special separation benefits programs
- Sec. 1175 - Voluntary separation incentive
- Sec. 1175a - Voluntary separation pay and benefits
- Sec. 1176 - Enlisted members: retention after completion of 18 or more, but less than 20, years of service
- Sec. 1177 - Members diagnosed with or reasonably asserting post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury: medical examination required before administrative separation
- Sec. 1178 - System and procedures for tracking separations resulting from refusal to participate in anthrax vaccine immunization program
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Chapter 60 - Separation of Regular Officers for Substandard Performance of Duty or for Certain Other Reasons
(Sections 1181 - 1187)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 1181 - Authority to establish procedures to consider the separation of officers for substandard performance of duty and for certain other reasons
- Sec. 1182 - Boards of inquiry
- Sec. 1183 - Repealed. Pub. L. 105-261, div. A, title V, §503(a), Oct. 17, 1998, 112 Stat. 2003
- Sec. 1184 - Removal of officer: action by Secretary upon recommendation of board of inquiry
- Sec. 1185 - Rights and procedures
- Sec. 1186 - Officer considered for removal: voluntary retirement or discharge
- Sec. 1187 - Officers eligible to serve on boards
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Chapter 61 - Retirement or Separation for Physical Disability
(Sections 1201 - 1222)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 1201 - Regulars and members on active duty for more than 30 days: retirement
- Sec. 1202 - Regulars and members on active duty for more than 30 days: temporary disability retired list
- Sec. 1203 - Regulars and members on active duty for more than 30 days: separation
- Sec. 1204 - Members on active duty for 30 days or less or on inactive-duty training: retirement
- Sec. 1205 - Members on active duty for 30 days or less: temporary disability retired list
- Sec. 1206 - Members on active duty for 30 days or less or on inactive-duty training: separation
- Sec. 1206a - Reserve component members unable to perform duties when ordered to active duty: disability system processing
- Sec. 1207 - Disability from intentional misconduct or willful neglect: separation
- Sec. 1207a - Members with over eight years of active service: eligibility for disability retirement for pre-existing conditions
- Sec. 1208 - Computation of service
- Sec. 1209 - Transfer to inactive status list instead of separation
- Sec. 1210 - Members on temporary disability retired list: periodic physical examination; final determination of status
- Sec. 1211 - Members on temporary disability retired list: return to active duty; promotion
- Sec. 1212 - Disability severance pay
- Sec. 1213 - Effect of separation on benefits and claims
- Sec. 1214 - Right to full and fair hearing
- Sec. 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
- Sec. 1215 - Members other than Regulars: applicability of laws
- Sec. 1216 - Secretaries: powers, functions, and duties
- Sec. 1216a - Determinations of disability: requirements and limitations on determinations
- Sec. 1217 - Academy cadets and midshipmen: applicability of chapter
- Sec. 1218 - Discharge or release from active duty: claims for compensation, pension, or hospitalization
- Sec. 1218a - Discharge or release from active duty: transition assistance for reserve component members injured while on active duty
- Sec. 1219 - Statement of origin of disease or injury: limitations
- Sec. 1220 - Repealed. Pub. L. 87-651, title I, §107(d), Sept. 7, 1962, 76 Stat. 509
- Sec. 1221 - Effective date of retirement or placement of name on temporary disability retired list
- Sec. 1222 - Physical evaluation boards
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Chapter 63 - Retirement for Age
(Sections 1251 - 1275)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 1251 - Age 62: regular commissioned officers in grades below general and flag officer grades; exceptions
- Sec. 1252 - Age 64: permanent professors at academies
- Sec. 1253 - Age 64: regular commissioned officers in general and flag officer grades; exceptions
- Sec. 1255 - Repealed. Pub. L. 90-130, §1(6), Nov. 8, 1967, 81 Stat. 374
- Sec. 1263 - Age 62: warrant officers
- Sec. 1275 - Computation of retired pay: law applicable
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Chapter 69 - Retired Grade
(Sections 1370 - 1376)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 1370 - Commissioned officers: general rule; exceptions
- Sec. 1371 - Warrant officers: general rule
- Sec. 1372 - Grade on retirement for physical disability: members of armed forces
- Sec. 1373 - Higher grade for later physical disability: retired officers recalled to active duty
- Sec. 1374 - Repealed. Pub. L. 103-337, div. A, title XVI, §1662(k)(2), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 3006
- Sec. 1375 - Entitlement to commission: commissioned officers advanced on retired list
- Sec. 1376 - Temporary disability retired lists
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Chapter 71 - Computation of Retired Pay
(Sections 1401 - 1415)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 1401 - Computation of retired pay
- Sec. 1401a - Adjustment of retired pay and retainer pay to reflect changes in Consumer Price Index
- Sec. 1402 - Recomputation of retired or retainer pay to reflect later active duty of members who first became members before September 8, 1980
- Sec. 1402a - Recomputation of retired or retainer pay to reflect later active duty of members who first became members after September 7, 1980
- Sec. 1403 - Disability retired pay: treatment under Internal Revenue Code of 1986
- Sec. 1404 - Applicability of section 8301 of title 5
- Sec. 1405 - Years of service
- Sec. 1406 - Retired pay base for members who first became members before September 8, 1980: final basic pay
- Sec. 1407 - Retired pay base for members who first became members after September 7, 1980: high-36 month average
- Sec. 1407a - Retired pay base: officers retired in general or flag officer grades
- Sec. 1408 - Payment of retired or retainer pay in compliance with court orders
- Sec. 1409 - Retired pay multiplier
- Sec. 1410 - Restoral of full retirement amount at age 62 for certain members entering on or after August 1, 1986
- Sec. 1411 - Rules of construction
- Sec. 1412 - Administrative provisions
- Sec. 1413 - Repealed. Pub. L. 108-136, div. A, title VI, §641(b), Nov. 24, 2003, 117 Stat. 1514
- Sec. 1413a - Combat-related special compensation
- Sec. 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
- Sec. 1415 - Lump sum payment of certain retired pay
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Chapter 73 - Annuities Based on Retired or Retainer Pay
(Sections 1431 - 1460b)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Subchapter I - Retired Serviceman's Family Protection Plan (Sections 1431 - 1446)
- Subchapter II - Survivor Benefit Plan (Sections 1447 - 1455)
- Subchapter III - Repealed (Sections 1456 - 1460b)
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Chapter 74 - Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund
(Sections 1461 - 1467)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 1461 - Establishment and purpose of Fund; definition
- Sec. 1462 - Assets of Fund
- Sec. 1463 - Payments from the Fund
- Sec. 1464 - Repealed. Pub. L. 110-181, div. A, title IX, §906(b)(1)(A), Jan. 28, 2008, 122 Stat. 277
- Sec. 1465 - Determination of contributions to the Fund
- Sec. 1466 - Payments into the Fund
- Sec. 1467 - Investment of assets of Fund
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Chapter 75 - Deceased Personnel
(Sections 1471 - 1491)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Subchapter I - Death Investigations (Sections 1471 - 1471)
- Subchapter II - Death Benefits (Sections 1475 - 1491)
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Chapter 76 - Missing Persons
(Sections 1501 - 1513)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 1501 - System for accounting for missing persons
- Sec. 1501a - Public-private partnerships; other forms of support
- Sec. 1502 - Missing persons: initial report
- Sec. 1503 - Actions of Secretary concerned; initial board inquiry
- Sec. 1504 - Subsequent board of inquiry
- Sec. 1505 - Further review
- Sec. 1506 - Personnel files
- Sec. 1507 - Recommendation of status of death
- Sec. 1508 - Judicial review
- Sec. 1509 - Program to resolve missing person cases
- Sec. 1510 - Applicability to Coast Guard
- Sec. 1511 - Return alive of person declared missing or dead
- Sec. 1512 - Effect on State law
- Sec. 1513 - Definitions
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Chapter 79 - Correction of Military Records
(Sections 1551 - 1559)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 1551 - Correction of name after separation from service under an assumed name
- Sec. 1552 - Correction of military records: claims incident thereto
- Sec. 1553 - Review of discharge or dismissal
- Sec. 1554 - Review of retirement or separation without pay for physical disability
- Sec. 1554a - Review of separation with disability rating of 20 percent disabled or less
- Sec. 1554b - Confidential review of characterization of terms of discharge of members of the armed forces who are victims of sex-related offenses
- Sec. 1555 - Professional staff
- Sec. 1556 - Ex parte communications prohibited
- Sec. 1557 - Timeliness standards for disposition of applications before Corrections Boards
- Sec. 1558 - Review of actions of selection boards: correction of military records by special boards; judicial review
- Sec. 1559 - Personnel limitation
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Chapter 80 - Miscellaneous Investigation Requirements and Other Duties
(Sections 1561 - 1567a)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 1561 - Complaints of sexual harassment: investigation by commanding officers
- Sec. 1561a - Civilian orders of protection: force and effect on military installations
- Sec. 1562 - Database on domestic violence incidents
- Sec. 1563 - Consideration of proposals for posthumous and honorary promotions and appointments: procedures for review
- Sec. 1564 - Security clearance investigations
- Sec. 1564a - Counterintelligence polygraph program
- Sec. 1564b - Security vetting for foreign nationals
- Sec. 1565 - DNA identification information: collection from certain offenders; use
- Sec. 1565a - DNA samples maintained for identification of human remains: use for law enforcement purposes
- Sec. 1565b - Victims of sexual assault: access to legal assistance and services of Sexual Assault Response Coordinators and Sexual Assault Victim Advocates
- Sec. 1566 - Voting assistance: compliance assessments; assistance
- Sec. 1566a - Voting assistance: voter assistance offices
- Sec. 1567 - Duration of military protective orders
- Sec. 1567a - Mandatory notification of issuance of military protective order to civilian law enforcement
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Chapter 81 - Civilian Employees
(Sections 1580 - 1599h)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 1580 - Emergency essential employees: designation
- Sec. 1580a - Emergency essential employees: notification of required participation in anthrax vaccine immunization program
- Sec. 1581 - Foreign National Employees Separation Pay Account
- Sec. 1582 - Assistive technology, assistive technology devices, and assistive technology services
- Sec. 1583 - Employment of certain persons without pay
- Sec. 1584 - Employment of non-citizens
- Sec. 1585 - Carrying of firearms
- Sec. 1585a - Special agents of the Defense Criminal Investigative Service: authority to execute warrants and make arrests
- Sec. 1586 - Rotation of career-conditional and career employees assigned to duty outside the United States
- Sec. 1587 - Employees of nonappropriated fund instrumentalities: reprisals
- Sec. 1587a - Employees of nonappropriated fund instrumentalities: senior executive pay levels
- Sec. 1588 - Authority to accept certain voluntary services
- Sec. 1589 - Participation in management of specified non-Federal entities: authorized activities
- Sec. 1590 - Repealed. Pub. L. 104-201, div. A, title XVI, §1633(a), Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2751
- Sec. 1591 - Reimbursement for travel and transportation expenses when accompanying Members of Congress
- Sec. 1592 - Prohibition on payment of severance pay to foreign nationals in the event of certain overseas base closures
- Sec. 1593 - Uniform allowance: civilian employees
- Sec. 1594 - Reimbursement for financial institution charges incurred because of Government error in direct deposit of pay
- Sec. 1595 - Civilian faculty members at certain Department of Defense schools: employment and compensation
- Sec. 1596 - Foreign language proficiency: special pay for proficiency beneficial for intelligence interests
- Sec. 1596a - Foreign language proficiency: special pay for proficiency beneficial for other national security interests
- Sec. 1596b - Foreign language proficiency: National Foreign Language Skills Registry
- Sec. 1597 - Civilian positions: guidelines for reductions
- Sec. 1598 - Assistance to terminated employees to obtain certification and employment as teachers or employment as teachers' aides
- Sec. 1599 - Renumbered §1611
- Sec. 1599a - Financial assistance to certain employees in acquisition of critical skills
- Sec. 1599b - Employees abroad: travel expenses; health care
- Sec. 1599c - Health care professionals: enhanced appointment and compensation authority for personnel for care and treatment of wounded and injured members of the armed forces
- Sec. 1599d - Financial management positions: authority to prescribe professional certification and credential standards
- Sec. 1599e - Probationary period for employees
- Sec. 1599f - United States Cyber Command recruitment and retention
- Sec. 1599g - Public-private talent exchange
- Sec. 1599h - Personnel management authority to attract experts in science and engineering
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Chapter 83 - Civilian Defense Intelligence Employees
(Sections 1601 - 1623)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Subchapter I - Defense-Wide Intelligence Personnel Policy (Sections 1601 - 1614)
- Subchapter II - Defense Intelligence Agency Personnel (Sections 1621 - 1623)
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Chapter 87 - Defense Acquisition Workforce
(Sections 1701 - 1764)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Subchapter I - General Authorities and Responsibilities (Sections 1701 - 1707)
- Subchapter II - Defense Acquisition Positions (Sections 1721 - 1725)
- Subchapter III - Acquisition Corps (Sections 1731 - 1737)
- Subchapter IV - Education and Training (Sections 1741 - 1748)
- Subchapter V - General Management Provisions (Sections 1761 - 1764)
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Chapter 88 - Military Family Programs and Military Child Care
(Sections 1781 - 1800)
- Table of Contents
- Subchapter I - Military Family Programs (Sections 1781 - 1790)
- Subchapter II - Military Child Care (Sections 1791 - 1800)
- + Chapter 89 - Repealed (Sections 1801 - 1805)
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