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[CITE: 10USC509]

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

(Added Pub. L. 90-235, Sec. 2(a)(1)(B), Jan. 2, 1968, 81 Stat. 755.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 37 section 906.
