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[CITE: 10USC671]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
                         CHAPTER 39--ACTIVE DUTY
 
Sec. 671. Members not to be assigned outside United States 
        before completing training
        
    (a) A member of the armed forces may not be assigned to active duty 
on land outside the United States and its territories and possessions 
until the member has completed the basic training requirements of the 
armed force of which he is a member.
    (b) In time of war or a national emergency declared by Congress or 
the President, the period of required basic training (or its equivalent) 
may not (except as provided in subsection (c)) be less than 12 weeks.
    (c)(1) A period of basic training (or equivalent training) shorter 
than 12 weeks may be established by the Secretary concerned for members 
of the armed forces who have been credentialed in a medical profession 
or occupation and are serving in a health-care occupational specialty, 
as determined under regulations prescribed under paragraph (2). Any such 
period shall be established under regulations prescribed under paragraph 
(2) and may be established notwithstanding section 4(a) of the Military 
Selective Service Act (50 U.S.C. App. 454(a)).
    (2) The Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Transportation 
with respect to the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in 
the Navy, shall prescribe regulations for the purposes of paragraph (1). 
The regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense shall apply 
uniformly to the military departments.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 27; Pub. L. 94-106, title VIII, 
Sec. 802(b), Oct. 7, 1975, 89 Stat. 537; Pub. L. 99-661, div. A, title 
V, Sec. 501, Nov. 14, 1986, 100 Stat. 3863; Pub. L. 103-160, div. A, 
title V, Sec. 511, Nov. 30, 1993, 107 Stat. 1648.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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671...................................  50 App.:454(a) (words between        Ju
ne 24, 1948, ch. 625, Sec.  4(a)
                                         semicolon and proviso of 6th         (
words between semicolon and
                                         par.).                               p
roviso of 6th par.); restated
                                                                              J
une 19, 1951, ch. 144, Sec.  1(d)
                                                                              (
words between semicolon and
                                                                              p
roviso of 6th par.), 65 Stat. 78.
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    The words ``four months of basic training or its equivalent'' are 
substituted for the words ``the equivalent of at least four months of 
basic training''. The words ``who is enlisted, inducted, appointed, or 
ordered to active duty after the date of enactment of the 1951 
Amendments to the Universal Military Training and Service Act [June 19, 
1951]'' and ``at any installation located'' are omitted as surplusage.


                               Amendments

    1993--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 103-160, Sec. 511(1), inserted ``(except 
as provided in subsection (c))'' after ``may not''.
    Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 103-160, Sec. 511(2), added subsec. (c).
    1986--Pub. L. 99-661 amended section generally. Prior to amendment, 
section read as follows: ``No member of an armed force may be assigned 
to active duty on land outside the United States and its Territories and 
possessions, until he has had twelve weeks of basic training or its 
equivalent.''
    1975--Pub. L. 94-106 reduced minimum period of basic training from 
four months to twelve weeks.
