Federal · Title 10 — Armed Forces

10 U.S.C. § 12684: Reserves: separation for absence without authority or sentence to imprisonment

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This statute establishes administrative procedures for separating military reserves based on unauthorized absence of three months or more, court-martial confinement sentences, or civilian criminal convictions resulting in imprisonment.

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who has been absent without authority for at least three months; who may be separated under section 12687 of this title by reason of a sentence to confinement adjudged by a court-martial; or who is sentenced to confinement in a Federal or State penitentiary or correctional institution after having been found guilty of an offense by a court other than a court-martial or other military court, and whose sentence has become final.

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