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[CITE: 10USC504]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
                         CHAPTER 31--ENLISTMENTS
 
Sec. 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.

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

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 802 of this title.
