Temporary enlistments

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Title 10—ARMED FORCES > Subtitle A—General Military Law > PART II—PERSONNEL > CHAPTER 31—ENLISTMENTS

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Temporary enlistments may be made only in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, or Coast Guard, as the case may be, without specification of component.

(Added Pub. L. 90–235, § 2(a)(1)(B) , Jan. 2, 1968 , 81 Stat. 755 ; amended Pub. L. 116–283, div. A, title IX, § 924(b)(2)(A)(iii) , Jan. 1, 2021 , 134 Stat. 3821 .)

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