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[CITE: 10USC2148]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                    PART III--TRAINING AND EDUCATION
 
  CHAPTER 107--EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FOR PERSONS ENLISTING FOR ACTIVE 
                                  DUTY
 
Sec. 2148. Duration of entitlement

    The entitlement of any person to educational assistance under this 
chapter expires at the end of the ten-year period beginning on the date 
of the retirement or discharge or other separation from active duty of 
the person upon whose service such entitlement is based. In the case of 
a member entitled to educational assistance under this chapter who dies 
while on active duty and whose entitlement is transferred to a spouse or 
dependent child, such entitlement expires at the end of the ten-year 
period beginning on the date of such member's death.

(Added Pub. L. 96-342, title IX, Sec. 901(a), Sept. 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 
1114.)
