Federal
Title 10 — Armed Forces
4,032 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.
- § 1436 — Computation of reduction in retired pay; withdrawal for severe financial hardship
- § 1436a — Coverage paid up at 30 years and age 70
- § 1437 — Payment of annuity
- § 1438 — Deposits for amounts not deducted
- § 1439 — Refund of amounts deducted from retired pay
- § 144 — Director of Small Business Programs
- § 1440 — Annuities not subject to legal process
- § 1441 — Annuities in addition to other payments
- § 1442 — Recovery of annuity erroneously paid
- § 1443 — Repealed. Pub. L. 92–425, § 1(2)(B) , Sept. 21, 1972 , 86 Stat. 706 ]
- § 1444 — Regulations; determinations
- § 1444a — Regulations regarding payment of annuity to a representative payee
- § 1445 — Correction of administrative deficiencies
- § 1446 — Restriction on participation
- § 1447 — Definitions
- § 1448 — Application of Plan
- § 1448a — Election to discontinue participation: one-year opportunity after second anniversary of commencement of payment of retired pay
- § 1449 — Mental incompetency of member
- § 145 — Principal Advisor on Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction
- § 1450 — Payment of annuity: beneficiaries
- § 14501 — Failure of selection for promotion
- § 14502 — Special selection boards: correction of errors
- § 14502a — Special selection review boards
- § 14503 — Discharge of officers with less than six years of commissioned service or found not qualified for promotion to first lieutenant or lieutenant (junior grade)
- § 14504 — Effect of failure of selection for promotion: reserve first lieutenants of the Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps and reserve lieutenants (junior grade) of the Navy
- § 14505 — Effect of failure of selection for promotion: reserve captains of the Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps and reserve lieutenants of the Navy
- § 14506 — Effect of failure of selection for promotion: reserve majors of the Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps and reserve lieutenant commanders of the Navy
- § 14507 — Removal from the reserve active-status list for years of service: reserve lieutenant colonels and colonels of the Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps and reserve commanders and captains of the Navy
- § 14508 — Removal from the reserve active-status list for years of service: reserve general and flag officers
- § 14509 — Separation at age 62: reserve officers in grades below brigadier general or rear admiral (lower half)
- § 1451 — Amount of annuity
- § 14510 — Separation at age 62: brigadier generals and rear admirals (lower half)
- § 14511 — Separation at age 64: officers in grade of major general or rear admiral and above
- § 14512 — Separation at age 66: officers holding certain offices
- § 14513 — Failure of selection for promotion: transfer, retirement, or discharge
- § 14514 — Discharge or retirement for years of service or after selection for early removal
- § 14515 — Discharge or retirement for age
- § 14516 — Separation to be considered involuntary
- § 14517 — Entitlement of officers discharged under this chapter to separation pay
- § 14518 — Continuation of officers to complete disciplinary action
- § 14519 — Deferment of retirement or separation for medical reasons
- § 1452 — Reduction in retired pay
- § 1453 — Recovery of amounts erroneously paid
- § 1454 — Correction of administrative errors
- § 1455 — Regulations
- § 1456 to 1460b — Repealed. Pub. L. 108–375, div. A, title VI, § 644(b)(2) , Oct. 28, 2004 , 118 Stat. 1961 ]
- § 146 — Renumbered § 198]
- § 1461 — Establishment and purpose of Fund; definition
- § 1462 — Assets of Fund
- § 1463 — Payments from the Fund
- § 1464 — Repealed. Pub. L. 110–181, div. A, title IX, § 906(b)(1)(A) , Jan. 28, 2008 , 122 Stat. 277 ]
- § 1465 — Determination of contributions to the Fund
- § 1466 — Payments into the Fund
- § 1467 — Investment of assets of Fund
- § 147 — Repealed. Pub. L. 119–60, div. A, title IX, § 901(b) , Dec. 18, 2025 , 139 Stat. 1007 ]
- § 14701 — Selection of officers for continuation on the reserve active-status list
- § 14701a — Continuation on reserve active-status list: officers in certain military specialties and career tracks
- § 14702 — Retention on reserve active-status list of certain officers in the grade of major, lieutenant colonel, colonel, or brigadier general
- § 14703 — Authority to retain chaplains and officers in medical specialties until specified age
- § 14704 — Selective early removal from the reserve active-status list
- § 14705 — Selective early retirement: reserve general and flag officers of the Navy and Marine Corps
- § 14706 — Computation of total years of service
- § 1471 — Forensic pathology investigations
- § 1475 — Death gratuity: death of members on active duty or inactive duty training and of certain other persons
- § 1476 — Death gratuity: death after discharge or release from duty or training
- § 1477 — Death gratuity: eligible survivors
- § 1478 — Death gratuity: amount
- § 1479 — Death gratuity: delegation of determinations, payments
- § 148 — Joint Energetics Transition Office
- § 1480 — Death gratuity: miscellaneous provisions
- § 1481 — Recovery, care, and disposition of remains: decedents covered
- § 1482 — Expenses incident to death
- § 1482a — Expenses incident to death: civilian employees serving with an armed force
- § 1483 — Prisoners of war and interned enemy aliens
- § 1484 — Pensioners, indigent patients, and persons who die on military reservations
- § 1485 — Dependents of members of armed forces
- § 1486 — Other citizens of United States
- § 1487 — Temporary interment
- § 1488 — Removal of remains
- § 1489 — Death gratuity: members and employees dying outside the United States while assigned to intelligence duties
- § 149 — Office of Strategic Capital
- § 1490 — Transportation of remains: certain retired members and dependents who die in military medical facilities
- § 14901 — Separation of chaplains for loss of professional qualifications
- § 14902 — Separation for substandard performance and for certain other reasons
- § 14903 — Boards of inquiry
- § 14904 — Rights and procedures
- § 14905 — Officer considered for removal: retirement or discharge
- § 14906 — Officers eligible to serve on boards
- § 14907 — Army National Guard of the United States and Air National Guard of the United States: discharge and withdrawal of Federal recognition of officers absent without leave
- § 1491 — Funeral honors functions at funerals for veterans
- § 1492 — Authority to provide travel and transportation allowances in connection with transfer ceremonies of certain civilian employees who die overseas
- § 1501 — System for accounting for missing persons
- § 1501a — Public-private partnerships; other forms of support
- § 1502 — Missing persons: initial report
- § 1503 — Actions of Secretary concerned; initial board inquiry
- § 1504 — Subsequent board of inquiry
- § 1505 — Further review
- § 1506 — Personnel files
- § 1507 — Recommendation of status of death
- § 1508 — Judicial review
- § 1509 — Program to resolve missing person cases
- § 151 — Joint Chiefs of Staff: composition; functions
- § 1510 — Applicability to Coast Guard
- § 15101 — Officers in designated competitive categories
- § 15102 — Selection for promotion
- § 15103 — Eligibility for consideration for promotion
- § 15104 — Opportunities for consideration for promotion
- § 15105 — Promotions
- § 15106 — Failure of selection for promotion
- § 15107 — Retirement: retirement for years of service; selective early retirement
- § 15108 — Continuation on the Reserve Active-Status List
- § 15109 — Other administrative authorities
- § 1511 — Return alive of person declared missing or dead
- § 15110 — Regulations
- § 1512 — Effect on State law
- § 1513 — Definitions
- § 152 — Chairman: appointment; grade and rank
- § 1521 — Posthumous commissions
- § 1522 — Posthumous warrants
- § 1523 — Posthumous commissions and warrants: effect on pay and allowances
- § 1524 — Posthumous commissions and warrants: determination of date of death
- § 153 — Chairman: functions
- § 154 — Vice Chairman
- § 155 — Joint Staff
- § 1551 — Correction of name after separation from service under an assumed name
- § 1552 — Correction of military records: claims incident thereto
- § 1553 — Review of discharge or dismissal
- § 1553a — Review of a request for upgrade of discharge or dismissal
- § 1554 — Review of retirement or separation without pay for physical disability
- § 1554a — Review of separation with disability rating of 20 percent disabled or less
- § 1554b — Confidential review of characterization of terms of discharge of members of the armed forces who are victims of sex-related offenses
- § 1555 — Professional staff
- § 1556 — Ex parte communications prohibited
- § 1557 — Timeliness standards for disposition of applications before Corrections Boards
- § 1558 — Review of actions of selection boards: correction of military records by special boards; judicial review
- § 1559 — Personnel limitation
- § 155a — Repealed. Pub. L. 114–328, div. A, title V, § 502(a)(1) , Dec. 23, 2016 , 130 Stat. 2102 ]
- § 156 — Legal Counsel to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- § 1561 — Complaints of sexual harassment: independent investigation
- § 1561a — Civilian orders of protection: force and effect on military installations
- § 1561b — Confidential reporting of sexual harassment
- § 1562 — Database on domestic violence incidents
- § 1562a — Complaints of retaliation by victims of sexual assault or sexual harassment and related persons: tracking by Department of Defense
- § 1563 — Consideration of proposals from Members of Congress for honorary promotions: procedures for review and promotion
- § 1563a — Honorary promotions on the initiative of the Department of Defense
- § 1564 — Security clearance investigations
- § 1564a — Counterintelligence polygraph program
- § 1564b — Security vetting for foreign nationals
- § 1565 — DNA identification information: collection from certain offenders; use
- § 1565a — DNA samples maintained for identification of human remains: use for law enforcement purposes
- § 1565b — Victims of sexual assault: access to legal assistance and services of Sexual Assault Response Coordinators and Sexual Assault Victim Advocates
- § 1566 — Voting assistance: compliance assessments; assistance
- § 1566a — Voting assistance: voter assistance offices
- § 1567 — Duration of military protective orders
- § 1567a — Mandatory notification of issuance of military protective order to civilian law enforcement
- § 1580 — Emergency essential employees: designation
- § 1580a — Emergency essential employees: notification of required participation in anthrax vaccine immunization program
- § 1581 — Foreign National Employees Separation Pay Account
- § 1582 — Assistive technology, assistive technology devices, and assistive technology services
- § 1583 — Employment of certain persons without pay
- § 1584 — Employment of non-citizens
- § 1585 — Carrying of firearms
- § 1585a — Special agents of the Defense Criminal Investigative Service: authority to execute warrants and make arrests
- § 1586 — Rotation of career-conditional and career employees assigned to duty outside the United States
- § 1587 — Employees of nonappropriated fund instrumentalities: reprisals
- § 1587a — Employees of nonappropriated fund instrumentalities: senior executive pay levels
- § 1588 — Authority to accept certain voluntary services
- § 1589 — Participation in management of specified non-Federal entities: authorized activities
- § 1590 — Repealed. Pub. L. 104–201, div. A, title XVI, § 1633(a) , Sept. 23, 1996 , 110 Stat. 2751 ]
- § 1591 — Reimbursement for travel and transportation expenses when accompanying Members of Congress
- § 1592 — Prohibition on payment of severance pay to foreign nationals in the event of certain overseas base closures
- § 1593 — Uniform allowance: civilian employees
- § 1594 — Reimbursement for financial institution charges incurred because of Government error in direct deposit of pay
- § 1595 — Civilian faculty members at certain Department of Defense schools: employment and compensation
- § 1596 — Foreign language proficiency: special pay for proficiency beneficial for intelligence interests
- § 1596a — Foreign language proficiency: special pay for proficiency beneficial for other national security interests
- § 1596b — Foreign language proficiency: National Foreign Language Skills Registry
- § 1596c — Programming language proficiency: special pay for proficiency beneficial for national security interests
- § 1597 — Civilian positions: guidelines for reductions
- § 1598 — Assistance to terminated employees to obtain certification and employment as teachers or employment as teachers’ aides
- § 1599 — Renumbered § 1611]
- § 1599a — Financial assistance to certain employees in acquisition of critical skills
- § 1599b — Employees abroad: travel expenses; health care
- § 1599c — Health care professionals: enhanced appointment and compensation authority for personnel for care and treatment of wounded and injured members of the armed forces
- § 1599d — Financial management positions: authority to prescribe professional certification and credential standards
- § 1599e — Payment of retention bonuses to DOD civilian employees in Guam.
- § 1599f — United States Cyber Command recruitment and retention
- § 1599g — Public-private talent exchange
- § 1599h — Renumbered § 4092]
- § 1599i — Recruitment incentives for placement at remote locations
- § 1599j — Restricted reports of incidents of adult sexual assault
- § 1601 — Civilian intelligence personnel: general authority to establish excepted positions, appoint personnel, and fix rates of pay
- § 1602 — Basic pay
- § 1603 — Additional compensation, incentives, and allowances
- § 1604 — Repealed. Pub. L. 104–201, div. A, title XVI, § 1632(a)(3) , Sept. 23, 1996 , 110 Stat. 2745 ]
- § 1605 — Benefits for certain employees assigned outside the United States
- § 1606 — Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service
- § 1607 — Intelligence Senior Level positions
- § 1608 — Time-limited appointments
- § 1609 — Termination of defense intelligence employees