§ 507. Extension of enlistment for members needing medical care or hospitalization

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1968

   Pub. L. 90–235 § 2(a)(1)(B) · 81 Stat. 753

   Enacted · 10 U.S.C. § 507

   (Added Pub. L. 90–235, § 2(a)(1)(B), Jan. 2, 1968, 81 Stat. 754.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (Added Pub. L. 90–235, § 2(a)(1)(B), Jan. 2, 1968, 81 Stat. 754.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (B) by inserting the following new sections: “§ 501. Definition “In this chapter ‘enlistment’ means original enlistment or reenlistment. “*      *      *      *      *      *      * “§ 503. Enlistments: recruiting campaigns “The Secretary concerned shall conduct intensive recruiting campaigns to obtain enlistments in the Regular Army, Regular Navy, Regular Air Force, Regular Marine Corps, and Regular Coast Guard. “§ 504. Persons not qualified “No person who is insane, intoxicated, or a deserter from an armed force, or who has been convicted of a felony, may be enlisted in any armed force. However, the Secretary concerned may authorize exceptions, in meritorious cases, for the enlistment of deserters and persons convicted of felonies. “§ 505. Regular components: qualifications, term, grade “(a) The Secretary concerned may accept original enlistments in the Regular Army, Regular Navy, Regular Air Force, Regular Marine Corps, or Regular Coast Guard, as the case may be, of qualified, effective, and able-bodied persons who are not less than seventeen years of age in the case of male persons and not less than eighteen years of age in the case of female persons, nor more than thirty-five years of age. However, no male person under eighteen years of age, or female person under twenty-one years of age, may be originally enlisted without the written consent of his parent or guardian, if he has a parent or guardian entitled to his custody and control. “(b) A person is enlisted in the Regular Army, Regular Navy, Regular Air Force, Regular Marine Corps, or Regular Coast Guard in the grade or rating prescribed by the Secretary concerned. “(c) The Secretary concerned may accept original enlistments in the Regular Army, Regular Navy, Regular Air Force, Regular Marine Corps, or Regular Coast Guard, as the case may be— “(1) of male persons for the duration of their minority or for a period of two, three, four, five, or six years; and “(2) of female persons for a period of two, three, four, five, or six years. “(d) In the Regular Army, female persons may be enlisted only in the Women’s Army Corps. “(e) The Secretary concerned may accept reenlistments in the Regular Army, Regular Navy, Regular Air Force, Regular Marine Corps, or Regular Coast Guard, as the case may be, for periods of two, three, four, five, or six years. No enlisted member is entitled to be reenlisted for a period that would expire before the end of his current enlistment. “§ 506. Regular components: extension of enlistments during war “An enlistment in the Regular Army, Regular Navy, Regular Air Force, Regular Marine Corps, or Regular Coast Guard in effect at the beginning of a war, or entered into during a war, unless sooner terminated by the President, continues in effect until six months after the termination of that war. “§ 507. Extension of enlistment for members needing medical care or hospitalization “(a) An enlisted member of an armed force on active duty whose term of enlistment expires while he is suffering from disease or injury incident to service and not due to his misconduct, and who needs medical care or hospitalization, may be retained on active duty, with his consent, until he recovers to the extent that he is able to meet the physi-cal requirements for reenlistment, or it is determined that recovery to that extent is impossible. “(b) This section does not prevent the retention in service, without his consent, of an enlisted member of an armed force under section 972 of this title. 72 Stat. 1443. “§ 508. Reenlistment: qualifications “(a) No person whose service during his last term of enlistment was not honest and faithful may be reenlisted in an armed force. However, the Secretary concerned may authorize the reenlistment in the armed force under his jurisdiction of such a person if his conduct after that service has been good. “(b) A person discharged from a Regular component may be reenlisted in the Regular Army, Regular Navy, Regular Air Force, Regular Marine Corps, or Regular Coast Guard, as the case may be, under such regulations as the Secretary concerned may prescribe. “(c) This section does not deprive a person of any right to be reenlisted in the Regular Army, Regular Navy, Regular Air Force, Regular Marine Corps, or Regular Coast Guard under any other provision of law. “§ 509. Voluntary extension of enlistments: periods and benefits “(a) Under such regulations as the Secretary concerned may prescribe, the term of enlistment of a member of an armed force may be extended or reextended with his written consent for any period. However, the total of all such extensions of an enlistment may not exceed four years. “(b) When a member is discharged from an enlistment that has been extended under this section, he has the same rights, privileges, and benefits that he would have if discharged at the same time from an enlistment not so extended. “*      *      *      *      *      *      * “§ 518. Temporary enlistments “Temporary enlistments may be made only in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard, as the case may be, without specification of component. “§ 519. Temporary enlistments: during war or emergency “Except as provided in section 505 of this title and except for enlistments Ante, p. 754. as Reserves of an armed force— “(1) temporary enlistments in an armed force entered into in time of war or of emergency declared by Congress shall be for the duration of the war or emergency plus six months; and “(2) only persons at least eighteen years of age and otherwise qualified under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary concerned are eligible for such enlistments.”; and

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision