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Title 10 — Armed Forces

3302 sections across 309 chapters.

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Ch. 1 — Definitions 1 section
Ch. 2 — Executive department 3 inactive 14 sections
Ch. 3 — Regulations 4 inactive 28 sections
Ch. 4 — Office of the Secretary of Defense 12 inactive 20 sections
Ch. 5 — Joint Chiefs of Staff: composition 1 inactive 6 sections
Ch. 6 — Combatant commands: establishment 3 inactive 10 sections
Ch. 7 — Armed Forces Policy Council 4 inactive 18 sections
Ch. 8 — Secretary of Defense: authority to provide for common perfor 2 inactive 10 sections
Ch. 9 — Future-years defense program: submission to Congress 6 inactive 29 sections
Ch. 11 — Reference to chapters 1003 1 section
Ch. 12 — Militia: composition and classes 2 sections
Ch. 13 — Federal aid for State governments 5 sections
Ch. 14 — During war or threat to national security 1 section
Ch. 15 — Use of information collected during military operations 14 sections
Ch. 16 — Exchange of defense personnel between United States and frie 13 inactive 29 sections
Ch. 19 — Reporting on cyber incidents with respect to networks and in 7 sections
Ch. 20 — Humanitarian and civic assistance provided in conjunction wi 3 inactive 7 sections
Ch. 21 — Funds for foreign cryptologic support 19 sections
Ch. 22 — Missions 1 inactive 14 sections
Ch. 23 — Reports to Congress: submission in electronic form 6 inactive 7 sections
Ch. 24 — Nuclear weapons employment strategy of the United States: re 12 sections
Ch. 31 — Definition 2 inactive 21 sections
Ch. 32 — Authority to prescribe total strengths of officers on active 2 inactive 7 sections
Ch. 33 — Original appointments of commissioned officers 1 inactive 18 sections
Ch. 34 — Reference to chapters 1205 and 1207 1 section
Ch. 35 — Positions of importance and responsibility: generals and lie 1 inactive 4 sections
Ch. 36 — Convening of selection boards 1 inactive 52 sections
Ch. 37 — Members: required service 1 inactive 6 sections
Ch. 38 — Management policies for joint qualified officers 1 inactive 7 sections
Ch. 39 — Members not to be assigned outside United States before comp 16 inactive 11 sections
Ch. 40 — Entitlement and accumulation 14 sections
Ch. 41 — Senior members of Military Staff Committee of United Nations 4 inactive 9 sections
Ch. 43 — Rank: commissioned officers of the armed forces 2 inactive 6 sections
Ch. 45 — Unauthorized wearing prohibited 9 sections
Ch. 47 — Protection of classified information: applicability of subch 4 inactive 250 sections
Ch. 48 — Parole 6 sections
Ch. 49 — Service credit: officers may not count service performed whi 2 inactive 15 sections
Ch. 50 — Management of deployments of members and measurement and dat 4 sections
Ch. 51 — Reference to chapter 1219 1 section
Ch. 53 — Bonus to encourage Department of Defense personnel to refer 6 inactive 37 sections
Ch. 54 — Survivors of certain Reserve and Guard members 1 inactive 5 sections
Ch. 55 — Administration of this chapter 1 inactive 90 sections
Ch. 56 — Assets of Fund 7 sections
Ch. 57 — Legion of Merit: award 18 sections
Ch. 58 — Involuntary separation defined 1 inactive 15 sections
Ch. 59 — Commissioned officers: limitations on dismissal 1 inactive 18 sections
Ch. 60 — Authority to establish procedures to consider the separation 1 inactive 6 sections
Ch. 61 — Regulars and members on active duty for more than 30 days: r 1 inactive 26 sections
Ch. 63 — Age 62: regular commissioned officers in grades below genera 1 inactive 5 sections
Ch. 65 — Twenty years or more: warrant officers 3 sections
Ch. 67 — Reference to chapter 1223 1 section
Ch. 69 — Commissioned officers: general rule 1 inactive 6 sections
Ch. 71 — Computation of retired pay 1 inactive 18 sections
Ch. 73 — Election of annuity: members of armed forces 2 inactive 27 sections
Ch. 74 — Assets of Fund 1 inactive 6 sections
Ch. 75 — Forensic pathology investigations 19 sections
Ch. 76 — System for accounting for missing persons 14 sections
Ch. 77 — Posthumous commissions 4 sections
Ch. 79 — Correction of name after separation from service under an as 12 sections
Ch. 80 — Complaints of sexual harassment: investigation by commanding 14 sections
Ch. 81 — Emergency essential employees: designation 2 inactive 31 sections
Ch. 83 — Civilian intelligence personnel: general authority to establ 1 inactive 16 sections
Ch. 87 — Management policies 7 inactive 27 sections
Ch. 88 — Office of Military Family Readiness Policy 25 sections
Ch. 89 1 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 101 — Dependents of members of armed forces: language training 3 inactive 17 sections
Ch. 102 — Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps 5 sections
Ch. 103 — Eligibility for membership 15 sections
Ch. 104 — Continued operation of University 1 inactive 8 sections
Ch. 105 — Eligibility for participation 10 sections
Ch. 106 — Reference to chapter 1606 6 inactive 11 sections
Ch. 107 — Joint professional military education: general requirements 1 inactive 6 sections
Ch. 108 — Degree granting authority for National Intelligence Universi 1 inactive 9 sections
Ch. 109 — Education loan repayment program: enlisted members on active 1 inactive 3 sections
Ch. 110 — Educational assistance: dependents of captives 5 sections
Ch. 111 — Graduate fellowships 13 sections
Ch. 112 — Programs 7 sections
Ch. 113 — Program elements 4 sections
Ch. 131 — Apportionment of funds: authority for exemption 3 inactive 32 sections
Ch. 133 — Reference to chapter 1803 1 section
Ch. 134 — Availability of appropriations for certain purposes 8 inactive 23 sections
Ch. 135 — Management of space programs: joint program offices and offi 3 inactive 11 sections
Ch. 136 — Global Positioning System 1 inactive 3 sections
Ch. 137 — Simplified acquisition threshold 7 inactive 55 sections
Ch. 138 — Authority to acquire logistic support 2 inactive 23 sections
Ch. 139 — Availability of appropriations 7 inactive 31 sections
Ch. 140 — Relationship of other provisions of law to procurement of co 1 inactive 7 sections
Ch. 141 — Contracts: regulations for bids 16 inactive 38 sections
Ch. 142 — Cooperative agreements 10 sections
Ch. 143 — Plantations and farms: operation 4 sections
Ch. 144 — Major defense acquisition program defined 2 inactive 27 sections
Ch. 145 — Defense supply management 1 inactive 7 sections
Ch. 146 — Definition of depot-level maintenance and repair 6 inactive 13 sections
Ch. 147 — Defense commissary and exchange systems: existence and purpo 19 sections
Ch. 148 — National security strategy for national technology and indus 7 inactive 41 sections
Ch. 149 — Civilian management of the defense acquisition system 5 sections
Ch. 152 — Equipment and barracks: national veterans’ organizations 1 inactive 19 sections
Ch. 153 — Interchange of supplies and services 2 inactive 13 sections
Ch. 155 — General gift funds 1 inactive 15 sections
Ch. 157 — Supplies: preference to United States vessels 1 inactive 25 sections
Ch. 159 — Miscellaneous administrative provisions relating to real pro 12 inactive 34 sections
Ch. 160 — Environmental restoration program 1 inactive 11 sections
Ch. 161 — Property records: maintenance on quantitative and monetary b 3 sections
Ch. 163 — Definition 13 sections
Ch. 165 — Final settlement of accounts: deceased members 1 inactive 22 sections
Ch. 167 8 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 169 — Scope of chapter 5 inactive 82 sections
Ch. 171 1 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 172 — Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program 4 sections
Ch. 173 — Energy policy of the Department of Defense 21 sections
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Ch. 203 1 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 205 1 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 207 1 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 209 1 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 221 1 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 223 1 inactive 0 sections
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Ch. 253 1 inactive 0 sections
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Ch. 271 1 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 273 1 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 275 1 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 277 1 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 279 1 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 281 1 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 283 1 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 285 1 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 287 1 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 301 1 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 303 1 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 305 1 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 321 1 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 323 1 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 325 1 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 327 1 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 329 1 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 341 1 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 343 1 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 345 1 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 361 1 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 363 1 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 365 1 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 367 1 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 381 1 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 383 1 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 385 1 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 701 — Definitions 1 section
Ch. 703 — Organization 14 sections
Ch. 705 — The Army Staff: function 8 sections
Ch. 707 — Regulations 1 inactive 16 sections
Ch. 711 — Officers on active duty: minimum strength based on requireme 2 sections
Ch. 713 — Definition 3 sections
Ch. 715 — Commissioned officer grades 3 sections
Ch. 719 — Retention on active duty 1 section
Ch. 721 — Non-regular officers: status 2 sections
Ch. 723 — Corps of Engineers: assignment or transfer of officers to du 5 sections
Ch. 725 — Rank: commissioned officers serving under temporary appointm 5 sections
Ch. 729 — Enlisted members: officers not to use as servants 1 section
Ch. 733 — Presentation of United States flag upon retirement 3 sections
Ch. 735 — When Secretary may require 1 section
Ch. 737 — Medal of honor: award 16 sections
Ch. 741 — Twenty years or more: regular or reserve commissioned office 10 sections
Ch. 743 — General rule 6 sections
Ch. 745 — Computation of retired pay 2 sections
Ch. 747 — Army War College and United States Army Command and General 4 sections
Ch. 749 — Fatality reviews 1 section
Ch. 751 — Members of Army: detail as students 13 sections
Ch. 753 — Departments and professors: titles 31 sections
Ch. 757 — Operation 6 sections
Ch. 763 — Factories and arsenals: manufacture at 7 sections
Ch. 764 — Policy 5 sections
Ch. 765 — Rations 5 sections
Ch. 767 — Utilities: proceeds from overseas operations 5 sections
Ch. 769 — Quartermaster supplies: members of armed forces 8 sections
Ch. 771 — Rifles and ammunition for target practice: educational insti 6 sections
Ch. 773 — Obsolete or excess material: sale to National Council of Boy 9 sections
Ch. 775 — Disposition of effects of deceased persons by summary court- 2 sections
Ch. 776 — Authority and responsibilities of the Secretary of the Army 7 sections
Ch. 777 — Property: for United States surveys 1 section
Ch. 779 — Acceptance of donations: land for mobilization 8 sections
Ch. 781 — Definition 5 sections
Ch. 783 — Custody of departmental records and property 7 sections
Ch. 801 — Definitions 1 section
Ch. 803 — Organization 18 sections
Ch. 805 — Office of the Chief of Naval Operations: function 7 sections
Ch. 806 — Headquarters 7 sections
Ch. 807 — Department of the Navy: composition 3 sections
Ch. 809 — Bureaus: names 14 sections
Ch. 811 — Prescribed number 3 sections
Ch. 812 — Navy: grades above chief warrant officer 4 sections
Ch. 813 — Expiration: rights of member 1 section
Ch. 815 — Regular Navy: transfers 6 sections
Ch. 821 — Aviation commands: eligibility 10 sections
Ch. 823 — State Department: assignment of enlisted members as custodia 3 sections
Ch. 825 — Navy Regulations 14 sections
Ch. 827 — Navy ration: persons entitled to 7 sections
Ch. 829 — Loans: Supply Corps officers 1 section
Ch. 831 — Presentation of United States flag upon retirement 9 sections
Ch. 833 — Members of the naval service in other United States hospital 3 sections
Ch. 835 — United States Navy Band 2 sections
Ch. 837 — Medal of honor 1 inactive 17 sections
Ch. 839 — Minors enlisted upon false statement of age 1 section
Ch. 841 — Officers: 40 years 16 sections
Ch. 843 — Mandatory retirement: Superintendent of the United States Na 5 sections
Ch. 845 — Retired members: grade 4 sections
Ch. 847 — Disposition of effects 1 section
Ch. 851 — Aviation cadets: grade 4 sections
Ch. 852 — Recruit basic training: separate housing for male and female 2 sections
Ch. 853 — Location 32 sections
Ch. 855 — Function 10 sections
Ch. 857 — Civilian member: definition 8 sections
Ch. 859 — Degree granting authority for Naval War College 4 sections
Ch. 861 — Schools near naval activities: financial aid 22 sections
Ch. 863 — Classification 33 sections
Ch. 865 — Authority to provide for necessary salvage facilities 4 sections
Ch. 867 — Naval Observatory: administration 2 sections
Ch. 869 — Jurisdiction and control 18 sections
Ch. 871 — Physical examination: employees engaged in hazardous occupat 8 sections
Ch. 873 — Contracts for research 3 sections
Ch. 875 — Obsolete and other material: gift or sale to Boy Scouts of A 9 sections
Ch. 877 — Quarters or other accommodations: to whom furnished 9 sections
Ch. 879 — Sales: members of the naval service and Coast Guard 6 sections
Ch. 881 — Admiralty claims against the United States 3 sections
Ch. 883 — Scope of chapter 31 sections
Ch. 885 — Scope of chapter 10 sections
Ch. 887 — Composition 4 sections
Ch. 889 — Custody of departmental records and property 3 sections
Ch. 891 — Unauthorized use of Marine Corps insignia 1 section
Ch. 893 — National Oceanographic Partnership Program 3 sections
Ch. 895 — Rifles and ammunition for target practice: educational insti 2 sections
Ch. 897 — Safety and effectiveness information 1 section
Ch. 903 — Organization 15 sections
Ch. 905 — The Air Staff: function 10 sections
Ch. 907 — Regulations 7 sections
Ch. 908 — The United States Space Force 3 sections
Ch. 911 — Regular Air Force: strength in grade 1 section
Ch. 913 — Definition 4 sections
Ch. 915 — Commissioned officer grades 2 sections
Ch. 919 — Retention on active duty 1 section
Ch. 921 — Non-regular officers: status 2 sections
Ch. 923 — Duties: chaplains 2 sections
Ch. 925 — Rank: commissioned officers serving under temporary appointm 5 sections
Ch. 929 — Enlisted members: officers not to use as servants 1 section
Ch. 933 — Presentation of United States flag upon retirement 3 sections
Ch. 935 — When Secretary may require 1 section
Ch. 937 — Medal of honor: award 15 sections
Ch. 939 — Aviation cadets: discharge 1 section
Ch. 941 — Twenty years or more: regular or reserve commissioned office 10 sections
Ch. 943 — General rule 6 sections
Ch. 945 — Computation of retired pay 2 sections
Ch. 947 — Air University: civilian faculty members 3 sections
Ch. 949 — Fatality reviews 1 section
Ch. 951 — Members of Air Force: detail as students 13 sections
Ch. 953 — Departments and professors: titles 28 sections
Ch. 957 — Operation 5 sections
Ch. 959 — Status as federally chartered corporation 8 sections
Ch. 961 — Civil Reserve Air Fleet contracts: payment rate 1 inactive 7 sections
Ch. 963 — Factories 4 inactive 3 sections
Ch. 965 — Rations 5 sections
Ch. 967 — Utilities: proceeds from overseas operations 4 sections
Ch. 969 — Subsistence and other supplies: members of armed forces 1 inactive 8 sections
Ch. 971 — Rifles and ammunition for target practice: educational insti 1 inactive 5 sections
Ch. 973 — Obsolete or excess material: sale to National Council of Boy 1 inactive 4 sections
Ch. 975 — Disposition of effects of deceased persons by summary court- 2 inactive 1 section
Ch. 977 5 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 979 — Acceptance of donations: land for mobilization 3 inactive 10 sections
Ch. 981 — Definition 1 inactive 5 sections
Ch. 983 — Custody of departmental records and property 4 inactive 7 sections
Ch. 1001 — Definition of State 1 section
Ch. 1003 — Reserve components named 15 sections
Ch. 1005 — Ready Reserve 14 sections
Ch. 1006 — United States Army Reserve Command 4 sections
Ch. 1007 — Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Reserve Affa 19 sections
Ch. 1009 — Reserve Forces Policy Board 5 sections
Ch. 1011 — National Guard Bureau 8 sections
Ch. 1013 — National Guard and reserve component equipment: annual repor 1 inactive 2 sections
Ch. 1201 — Authorized strengths: reserve components 12 sections
Ch. 1203 — Definition 8 sections
Ch. 1205 — Reserve officers: qualifications for appointment 15 sections
Ch. 1207 — Warrant officers: grades 4 sections
Ch. 1209 — Reserve components generally 25 sections
Ch. 1211 — Army and Air National Guard of the United States: status 8 sections
Ch. 1213 — Reserve components: detail of members of regular and reserve 1 inactive 3 sections
Ch. 1214 — Risk insured 13 sections
Ch. 1215 — Funeral honors functions at funerals for veterans 1 inactive 1 section
Ch. 1217 — Compensation: Reserve on active duty accepting from any pers 5 sections
Ch. 1219 — Standards and procedures: Secretary to prescribe 7 sections
Ch. 1221 — Reserves: discharge authority 7 sections
Ch. 1223 — Age and service requirements 13 sections
Ch. 1225 — Reserve officers: grade on transfer to Retired Reserve 4 sections
Ch. 1401 — Applicability of this part 6 sections
Ch. 1403 — Convening of selection boards 12 sections
Ch. 1405 — Eligibility for consideration for promotion: general rules 17 sections
Ch. 1407 — Failure of selection for promotion 19 sections
Ch. 1409 — Selection of officers for continuation on the reserve active 6 sections
Ch. 1411 — Separation of chaplains for loss of professional qualificati 7 sections
Ch. 1606 — Educational assistance program: establishment 1 inactive 8 sections
Ch. 1607 — Educational assistance program 9 sections
Ch. 1608 — Financial assistance: health-care professionals in reserve c 4 sections
Ch. 1609 — Education loan repayment program: members of Selected Reserv 3 sections
Ch. 1611 — Marine Corps Platoon Leaders Class: college tuition assistan 1 section
Ch. 1803 — Acquisition 12 sections
Ch. 1805 — Reserve components: personnel and logistic support by milita 1 inactive 3 sections