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CHAPTER 1209⁠—ACTIVE DUTY — Front Matter

Sec.
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, 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.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2013⁠—Pub. L. 112-239, div. A, title V, § 571(b), Jan. 2, 2013, 126 Stat. 1753, added item 12323.

2011⁠—Pub. L. 112-81, div. A, title V, §§ 515(a)(2), 516(a)(2), Dec. 31, 2011, 125 Stat. 1394, 1397, added items 12304a and 12304b.

1999⁠—Pub. L. 106-65, div. A, title VII, § 705(a)(2), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 683, added item 12322.

1997⁠—Pub. L. 105-85, div. A, title V, § 511(e)(2), Nov. 18, 1997, 111 Stat. 1729, inserted “and certain Individual Ready Reserve members” after “Selected Reserve” in item 12304.

1996⁠—Pub. L. 104-106, div. A, title XV, § 1501(b)(16), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 496, substituted a semicolon for a colon in item 12304 and struck out “on active duty” after “Retention” in item 12308.