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Title 10 of the United States Code

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Title 10 of the United States Code outlines the role of United States Armed Forces.[1] It provides the legal basis for the roles, missions and organization of each of the services as well as the United States Department of Defense. Each of the five subtitles deals with a separate aspect or component of the armed services.

The current Title 10 was the result of an overhaul and renumbering of the former Title 10 and Title 34 into one title by an act of Congress on August 10, 1956.

Title 32 outlines the related but different legal basis for the roles, missions and organization of the United States National Guard in the United States Code. The provisions of United States Code within Title 10 that are outlined in this article are up to date as of March 13, 2024.

History

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Subtitle A — General Military Law

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Subtitle A

Part I — Organization and General Military Powers

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Part I

Part II — Personnel

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Part II

  • Chapter 31 — Enlistments
  • Chapter 32 — Officer strength and distribution in grade
  • Chapter 33 — Original appointments of regular officers in grades above warrant officer grades
  • Chapter 33A — Appointment, promotion, and involuntary separation and retirement for members on the warrant officer active-duty list
  • Chapter 34 — Appointments as reserve officers
  • Chapter 35 — Temporary appointments in officer grades
  • Chapter 36 — Promotion, separation, and involuntary retirement of officers on the active-duty list
  • Chapter 37 — General service requirements
  • Chapter 38 — Joint officer management
  • Chapter 39 — Active duty
  • Chapter 40 — Leave
  • Chapter 41 — Special appointments, assignments, details, and duties
  • Chapter 43 — Rank and command
  • Chapter 45 — The uniform
  • Chapter 47 — Uniform Code of Military Justice
  • Chapter 47A — Military commissions
  • Chapter 48 — Military correctional facilities
  • Chapter 49 — Miscellaneous prohibitions and penalties
  • Chapter 50 — Miscellaneous command responsibilities
  • Chapter 51 — Reserve components: Standards and procedures for retention and promotion
  • Chapter 53 — Miscellaneous rights and benefits
  • Chapter 54 — Commissary and exchange benefits
  • Chapter 55 — Medical and dental care
  • Chapter 56 — Department of Defense Medicare-eligible retiree health care fund
  • Chapter 57 — Decorations and awards
  • Chapter 58 — Benefits and services for members being separated or recently separated
  • Chapter 59 — Separation
  • Chapter 60 — Separation of regular officers for substandard performance of duty or for certain other reasons
  • Chapter 61 — Retirement or separation for physical disability
  • Chapter 63 — Retirement for age
  • Chapter 65 — Retirement of warrant officers for length of service
  • Chapter 67 — Retired pay for non-regular service
  • Chapter 69 — Retired grade
  • Chapter 71 — Computation of retired pay
  • Chapter 73 — Annuities based on retired or retainer pay
  • Chapter 74 — Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund
  • Chapter 75 — Deceased personnel
  • Chapter 76 — Missing persons
  • Chapter 77 — Posthumous commissions and warrants
  • Chapter 79 — Correction of military records
  • Chapter 80 — Miscellaneous investigation requirements and other duties
  • Chapter 81 — Civilian employees
  • Chapter 83 — Civilian Defense Intelligence Employees
  • Chapter 87 — Defense Acquisition Workforce
  • Chapter 88 — Military family programs and military child care

Part III — Training and Education

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Part III

  • Chapter 101 — Training generally
  • Chapter 102 — Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps
  • Chapter 103 — Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps
  • Chapter 104 — Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
  • Chapter 105 — Armed Forces Health Professions Financial Assistance Programs
  • Chapter 106 — Educational Assistance for Members of the Selected Reserve
  • Chapter 106A — Educational Assistance for Persons Enlisting for Active Duty
  • Chapter 107 — Professional Military Education
  • Chapter 108 — Department of Defense Schools
  • Chapter 109 — Educational Loan Repayment Programs
  • Chapter 110 — Educational Assistance for Members Held as Captives and Their Dependents
  • Chapter 111 — Support of Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Education
  • Chapter 112 — Cyber Scholarship Program
  • Chapter 113 — Defense Civilian Training Corps

Part IV — Service, Supply, and Property

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Part IV

  • Chapter 131 — Planning and Coordination
  • Chapter 133 — Facilities for Reserve Components
  • Chapter 134 — Miscellaneous Administrative Provisions
  • Chapter 135 — Space Programs
  • Chapter 136 — Provisions Relating to Specific Programs
  • Chapter 138 — Cooperative Agreements with NATO Allies and Other Countries
  • Chapter 141 — Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Property
  • Chapter 143 — Production by Military Agencies
  • Chapter 145 — Cataloging and Standardization
  • Chapter 146 — Contracting for Performance of Civilian Commercial or Industrial Type Functions
  • Chapter 147 — Commissaries and Exchanges and Other Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Activities
  • Chapter 152 — Issue of Supplies, Services, and Facilities
  • Chapter 153 — Exchange of Material and Disposal of Obsolete, Surplus, or Unclaimed Property
  • Chapter 155 — Acceptance of Gifts and Services
  • Chapter 157 — Transportation
  • Chapter 159 — Real Property; Related Personal Property; and Lease of Non-Excess Property
  • Chapter 160 — Environmental Restoration
  • Chapter 161 — Property Records and Report of Theft or Loss of Certain Property
  • Chapter 163 — Military Claims
  • Chapter 165 — Accountability and Responsibility
  • Chapter 169 — Military Construction and Military Family Housing
  • Chapter 172 — Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program
  • Chapter 173 — Energy Security

Part V — Acquisition

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Part V

Subtitle B — Army

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Subtitle B

Part I — Organization

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Part I

Part II — Personnel

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Part II

Part III — Training

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Part III

Part IV — Service, Supply, and Procurement

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Part IV

Subtitle C — Navy and Marine Corps

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Subtitle C

Part I — Organization

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Part I

Part II — Personnel

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Part II

Part III — Education and Training

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Part III

  • Chapter 851 — Officer procurement programs
  • Chapter 852 — Training generally
  • Chapter 853 — United States Naval Academy
  • Chapter 855 — United States Naval Postgraduate School
  • Chapter 857 — Retirement of civilian members of the teaching staffs of the United States Naval Academy and United States Naval Postgraduate School
  • Chapter 859 — Professional military education schools

Part IV — General Administration

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Part IV

Subtitle D — Air Force and Space Force

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Subtitle D

Part I — Organization

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Part I

Part II — Personnel

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Part II

Part III — Training

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Part III

Part IV — Service, Supply, and Procurement

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Part IV

Subtitle E — Reserve Components

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Subtitle E

Part I — Organization and Administration

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Part I

Part II — Personnel Generally

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Part II

Part III — Promotion and Retention of Officers on the Reserve Active-Status List

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Part III

  • Chapter 1401 — Applicability and Reserve Active-Status Lists
  • Chapter 1403 — Selection Boards
  • Chapter 1405 — Promotions
  • Chapter 1407 — Failure of Selection for Promotion and Involuntary Separation
  • Chapter 1409 — Continuation of Officers on the Reserve Active-Status List and Selective Early Removal
  • Chapter 1411 — Additional Provisions Relating to Involuntary Separation

Part IV — Training for Reserve Components and Educational Assistance Programs

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Part IV

  • Chapter 1601 — Training Generally
  • Chapter 1606 — Educational Assistance for Members of the Selected Reserve
  • Chapter 1607 — Educational Assistance for Reserve Component Members Supporting Contingency Operations and Certain Other Operations
  • Chapter 1608 — Health Professions Stipend Program
  • Chapter 1609 — Education Loan Repayment Programs
  • Chapter 1611 — Other Educational Assistance Programs

Part V — Service, Supply, and Procurement

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Part V

Subtitle F — Alternative Military Personnel Systems

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PART I — Space Force

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References

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  1. ^ "United States Code". Office of the Law Revision Counsel. Retrieved March 12, 2024.
  2. ^ Klein, John J. (January 2, 2020). "The Creation of a U.S. Space Force: It's Only the End of the Beginning". War on the Rocks. Retrieved January 2, 2020.
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