Federal
Title 10 — Armed Forces
4,032 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.
- § 1097c — TRICARE program: relationship with employer-sponsored group health plans
- § 1097d — TRICARE program: notice of change to benefits
- § 1098 — Incentives for participation in cost-effective health care plans
- § 1099 — Health care enrollment system and payment options
- § 1100 — Defense Health Program Account
- § 1101 — Resource allocation methods: capitation or diagnosis-related groups
- § 1102 — Confidentiality of medical quality assurance records: qualified immunity for participants
- § 1103 — Contracts for medical and dental care: State and local preemption
- § 1104 — Sharing of health-care resources with the Department of Veterans Affairs
- § 1104a — Shared medical facilities with Department of Veterans Affairs
- § 1105 — Specialized treatment facility program
- § 1106 — Submittal of claims: standard form; time limits
- § 1107 — Notice of use of an investigational new drug or a drug unapproved for its applied use
- § 1107a — Emergency use products
- § 1108 — Health care coverage through Federal Employees Health Benefits program: demonstration project
- § 1109 — Organ and tissue donor program
- § 111 — Executive department
- § 1110 — System for tracking and recording vaccine information; anthrax vaccine immunization program
- § 1110a — Notification of certain individuals regarding options for enrollment under Medicare part B
- § 1110b — TRICARE program: extension of dependent coverage
- § 1111 — Establishment and purpose of Fund; definitions; authority to enter into agreements
- § 1112 — Assets of Fund
- § 1113 — Payments from the Fund
- § 1114 — Board of Actuaries
- § 1115 — Determination of contributions to the Fund
- § 1116 — Payments into the Fund
- § 1117 — Investment of assets of Fund
- § 112 — Department of Defense: seal
- § 1121 — Legion of Merit: award
- § 1122 — Medal for Merit: award
- § 1123 — Right to wear badges of military societies
- § 1124 — Cash awards for disclosures, suggestions, inventions, and scientific achievements
- § 1124a — Cyber operations-peculiar awards
- § 1125 — Recognition for accomplishments: award of trophies
- § 1126 — Gold star lapel button: eligibility and distribution
- § 1127 — Precedence of the award of the Purple Heart
- § 1128 — Prisoner-of-war medal: issue
- § 1129 — Purple Heart: members killed or wounded in action by friendly fire
- § 1129a — Purple Heart: members killed or wounded in attacks by foreign terrorist organizations
- § 113 — Secretary of Defense
- § 1130 — Consideration of proposals for decorations not previously submitted in timely fashion: procedures for review
- § 1131 — Purple Heart: limitation to members of the armed forces
- § 1132 — Presentation of decorations: prohibition on entering correctional facilities for presentation to prisoners convicted of serious violent felonies
- § 1133 — Bronze Star: limitation on persons eligible to receive
- § 1134 — Medal of honor: award to individual interred in Tomb of the Unknowns as representative of casualties of a war
- § 1134a — Medal of honor: Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard Medal of Honor Roll
- § 1135 — Replacement of military decorations
- § 1136 — Honorable service requirement for award of military decorations
- § 113a — Transmission of annual defense authorization request
- § 114 — Annual authorization of appropriations
- § 1141 — Involuntary separation defined
- § 1142 — Preseparation counseling; transmittal of certain records to Department of Veterans Affairs
- § 1143 — Employment assistance
- § 1143a — Repealed. Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title V, § 553(a)(1) , Aug. 13, 2018 , 132 Stat. 1772 ]
- § 1144 — Employment assistance, job training assistance, and other transitional services: Department of Labor
- § 1145 — Health benefits
- § 1146 — Commissary and exchange benefits
- § 1147 — Use of military family housing
- § 1148 — Relocation assistance for personnel overseas
- § 1149 — Excess leave and permissive temporary duty
- § 114a — Renumbered § 221]
- § 115 — Personnel strengths: requirement for annual authorization
- § 1150 — Affiliation with Guard and Reserve units: waiver of certain limitations
- § 1151 — Retention of assistive technology and services provided before separation
- § 1152 — Assistance to eligible members and former members to obtain employment with law enforcement agencies
- § 1153 — Assistance to separated members to obtain employment with health care providers
- § 1154 — Assistance to eligible members and former members to obtain employment as teachers: Troops-to-Teachers Program
- § 1155 — Statement of benefits
- § 115a — Annual defense manpower profile report and related reports
- § 115b — Repealed. Pub. L. 114–328, div. A, title XI, § 1102(a) , Dec. 23, 2016 , 130 Stat. 2444 ]
- § 116 — Annual operations and maintenance report
- § 1161 — Commissioned officers: limitations on dismissal
- § 1162, 1163 — Repealed. Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title XVI, § 1662(i)(2) , Oct. 5, 1994 , 108 Stat. 2998 ]
- § 1164 — Warrant officers: separation for age
- § 1165 — Regular warrant officers: separation during three-year probationary period
- § 1166 — Regular warrant officers: elimination for unfitness or unsatisfactory performance
- § 1167 — Members under confinement by sentence of court-martial: separation after six months confinement
- § 1168 — Discharge or release from active duty: limitations
- § 1169 — Regular enlisted members: limitations on discharge
- § 117 — Readiness reporting system
- § 1170 — Regular enlisted members: minority discharge
- § 1171 — Regular enlisted members: early discharge
- § 1172 — Enlisted members: during war or emergency; discharge
- § 1173 — Enlisted members: discharge for hardship
- § 1174 — Separation pay upon involuntary discharge or release from active duty
- § 1174a — Special separation benefits programs
- § 1175 — Voluntary separation incentive
- § 1175a — Voluntary separation pay and benefits
- § 1176 — Enlisted members: retention after completion of 18 or more, but less than 20, years of service
- § 1177 — Members diagnosed with or reasonably asserting post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury: medical examination required before administrative separation
- § 1178 — System and procedures for tracking separations resulting from refusal to participate in anthrax vaccine immunization program
- § 118 — Materiel readiness metrics and materiel readiness objectives for major weapon systems
- § 1181 — Authority to establish procedures to consider the separation of officers for substandard performance of duty and for certain other reasons
- § 1182 — Boards of inquiry
- § 1183 — Repealed. Pub. L. 105–261, div. A, title V, § 503(a) , Oct. 17, 1998 , 112 Stat. 2003 ]
- § 1184 — Removal of officer: action by Secretary upon recommendation of board of inquiry
- § 1185 — Rights and procedures
- § 1186 — Officer considered for removal: voluntary retirement or discharge
- § 1187 — Officers eligible to serve on boards
- § 118a — Quadrennial quality of life review
- § 118b — National Defense Sustainment and Logistics Review
- § 118c — National Defense Science and Technology Strategy
- § 119 — Special access programs: congressional oversight
- § 119a — Programs managed under alternative compensatory control measures: congressional oversight
- § 120 — Department of Defense executive aircraft controlled by Secretaries of military departments
- § 12001 — Authorized strengths: reserve components
- § 12002 — Authorized strengths: Army and Air Force reserve components, exclusive of members on active duty
- § 12003 — Authorized strengths: commissioned officers in an active status
- § 12004 — Strength in grade: reserve general and flag officers in an active status
- § 12005 — Strength in grade: commissioned officers in grades below brigadier general or rear admiral (lower half) in an active status
- § 12006 — Strength limitations: authority to waive in time of war or national emergency
- § 12007 — Reserve officers of the Army: distribution
- § 12008 — Army Reserve and Air Force Reserve: warrant officers
- § 12009 — Army and Air Force reserve components: temporary increases
- § 1201 — Regulars and members on active duty for more than 30 days: retirement
- § 12010 — Computations for Navy Reserve and Marine Corps Reserve: rule when fraction occurs in final result
- § 12011 — Authorized strengths: reserve officers on active duty or on full-time National Guard duty for administration of the reserves or the National Guard
- § 12012 — Authorized strengths: senior enlisted members on active duty or on full-time National Guard duty for administration of the reserves or the National Guard
- § 1202 — Regulars and members on active duty for more than 30 days: temporary disability retired list
- § 1203 — Regulars and members on active duty for more than 30 days: separation
- § 1204 — Members on active duty for 30 days or less or on inactive-duty training: retirement
- § 1205 — Members on active duty for 30 days or less: temporary disability retired list
- § 1206 — Members on active duty for 30 days or less or on inactive-duty training: separation
- § 1206a — Reserve component members unable to perform duties when ordered to active duty: disability system processing
- § 1207 — Disability from intentional misconduct or willful neglect: separation
- § 1207a — Members with over eight years of active service: eligibility for disability retirement for pre-existing conditions
- § 1208 — Computation of service
- § 1209 — Transfer to inactive status list instead of separation
- § 121 — Regulations
- § 1210 — Members on temporary disability retired list: periodic physical examination; final determination of status
- § 12101 — Definition
- § 12102 — Reserve components: qualifications
- § 12103 — Reserve components: terms
- § 12104 — Reserve components: transfers
- § 12105 — Army Reserve and Air Force Reserve: transfer from Guard components
- § 12106 — Army and Air Force Reserve: transfer to upon withdrawal as member of National Guard
- § 12107 — Army National Guard of United States; Air National Guard of the United States: enlistment in
- § 12108 — Enlisted members: discharge or retirement for years of service or for age
- § 1211 — Members on temporary disability retired list: return to active duty; promotion
- § 1212 — Disability severance pay
- § 1213 — Effect of separation on benefits and claims
- § 1214 — Right to full and fair hearing
- § 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
- § 1215 — Members other than Regulars: applicability of laws
- § 1216 — Secretaries: powers, functions, and duties
- § 1216a — Determinations of disability: requirements and limitations on determinations
- § 1217 — Academy cadets and midshipmen: applicability of chapter
- § 1218 — Discharge or release from active duty: claims for compensation, pension, or hospitalization
- § 1218a — Discharge or release from active duty: transition assistance for reserve component members injured while on active duty
- § 1219 — Statement of origin of disease or injury: limitations
- § 122 — Official registers
- § 1220 — Repealed. Pub. L. 87–651, title I, § 107(d) , Sept. 7, 1962 , 76 Stat. 509 ]
- § 12201 — Reserve officers: qualifications for appointment
- § 12202 — Commissioned officer grades
- § 12203 — Commissioned officers: appointment, how made; term
- § 12204 — Commissioned officers: original appointment; limitation
- § 12205 — Commissioned officers: appointment; educational requirement
- § 12206 — Commissioned officers: appointment of former commissioned officers
- § 12207 — Commissioned officers: service credit upon original appointment
- § 12208 — Officers: appointment upon transfer
- § 12209 — Officer candidates: enlisted Reserves
- § 1221 — Effective date of retirement or placement of name on temporary disability retired list
- § 12210 — Attending Physician to the Congress: reserve grade
- § 12211 — Officers: Army National Guard of the United States
- § 12212 — Officers: Air National Guard of the United States
- § 12213 — Officers; Army Reserve: transfer from Army National Guard of the United States
- § 12214 — Officers; Air Force Reserve: transfer from Air National Guard of the United States
- § 12215 — Commissioned officers: reserve grade of adjutants general and assistant adjutants general
- § 1222 — Physical evaluation boards
- § 12241 — Warrant officers: grades; appointment, how made; term
- § 12242 — Warrant officers: promotion
- § 12243 — Warrant officers: suspension of laws for promotion or mandatory retirement or separation during war or emergency
- § 12244 — Warrant officers: discharge or retirement for years of service or for age
- § 122a — Public availability of Department of Defense reports required by law
- § 123 — Authority to suspend officer personnel laws during war or national emergency
- § 12301 — Reserve components generally
- § 12302 — Ready Reserve
- § 12303 — Ready Reserve: members not assigned to, or participating satisfactorily in, units
- § 12304 — Selected Reserve and certain Individual Ready Reserve members; order to active duty other than during war or national emergency
- § 12304a — Army Reserve, Navy Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve, and Air Force Reserve: order to active duty to provide assistance in response to a major disaster or emergency
- § 12304b — Selected Reserve: order to active duty for preplanned missions in support of the combatant commands
- § 12305 — Authority of President to suspend certain laws relating to promotion, retirement, and separation
- § 12306 — Standby Reserve
- § 12307 — Retired Reserve
- § 12308 — Retention after becoming qualified for retired pay
- § 12309 — Reserve officers: use of in expansion of armed forces
- § 12310 — Reserves: for organizing, administering, etc., reserve components
- § 12311 — Active duty agreements
- § 12312 — Active duty agreements: release from duty
- § 12313 — Reserves: release from active duty
- § 12314 — Reserves: kinds of duty
- § 12315 — Reserves: duty with or without pay
- § 12316 — Payment of certain Reserves while on duty
- § 12317 — Reserves: theological students; limitations
- § 12318 — Reserves on active duty: duties; funding
- § 12319 — Ready Reserve: muster duty
- § 12320 — Reserve officers: grade in which ordered to active duty
- § 12321 — Reserve Officer Training Corps units: limitation on number of Reserves assigned
- § 12322 — Active duty for health care
- § 12323 — Active duty pending line of duty determination required for response to sexual assault