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10 U.S.C. § 279 — Assignment of Coast Guard personnel to naval vessels for law enforcement purposes
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**(a)** The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall provide that there be assigned on board every appropriate surface naval vessel at sea in a drug-interdiction area members of the Coast Guard who are trained in law enforcement and have powers of the Coast Guard under title 14, including the power to make arrests and to carry out searches and seizures.
**(b)** Members of the Coast Guard assigned to duty on board naval vessels under this section shall perform such law enforcement functions (including drug-interdiction functions)—
(1) as may be agreed upon by the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security; and
(2) as are otherwise within the jurisdiction of the Coast Guard.
**(c)** No fewer than 500 active duty personnel of the Coast Guard shall be assigned each fiscal year to duty under this section. However, if at any time the Secretary of Homeland Security, after consultation with the Secretary of Defense, determines that there are insufficient naval vessels available for purposes of this section, such personnel may be assigned other duty involving enforcement of laws listed in section 374(b)(4)(A) 11 See References in Text note below. of this title.
**(d)** In this section, the term “drug-interdiction area” means an area outside the land area of the United States (as defined in section 374(b)(4)(B) 1 of this title) in which the Secretary of Defense (in consultation with the Attorney General) determines that activities involving smuggling of drugs into the United States are ongoing.
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**(a)** The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall provide that there be assigned on board every appropriate surface naval vessel at sea in a drug-interdiction area members of the Coast Guard who are trained in law enforcement and have powers of the Coast Guard under title 14, including the power to make arrests and to carry out searches and seizures.
**(b)** Members of the Coast Guard assigned to duty on board naval vessels under this section shall perform such law enforcement functions (including drug-interdiction functions)—
(1) as may be agreed upon by the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security; and
(2) as are otherwise within the jurisdiction of the Coast Guard.
**(c)** No fewer than 500 active duty personnel of the Coast Guard shall be assigned each fiscal year to duty under this section. However, if at any time the Secretary of Homeland Security, after consultation with the Secretary of Defense, determines that there are insufficient naval vessels available for purposes of this section, such personnel may be assigned other duty involving enforcement of laws listed in section 374(b)(4)(A) 11 See References in Text note below. of this title.
**(d)** In this section, the term “drug-interdiction area” means an area outside the land area of the United States (as defined in section 374(b)(4)(B) 1 of this title) in which the Secretary of Defense (in consultation with the Attorney General) determines that activities involving smuggling of drugs into the United States are ongoing.
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**(a)** The Secretary of Defense may, in accordance with other applicable law, make Department of Defense personnel available for the maintenance of equipment for Federal, State, and local civilian law enforcement officials, including equipment made available under section 372 11 See References in Text note below. of this title.
**(b)**
(1) Subject to paragraph (2) and in accordance with other applicable law, the Secretary of Defense may, upon request from the head of a Federal law enforcement agency, make Department of Defense personnel available to operate equipment (including equipment made available under section 372 1 of this title) with respect to—
(A) a criminal violation of a provision of law specified in paragraph (4)(A);
(B) assistance that such agency is authorized to furnish to a State, local, or foreign government which is involved in the enforcement of similar laws;
(C) a foreign or domestic counter-terrorism operation; or
(D) a rendition of a suspected terrorist from a foreign country to the United States to stand trial.
(2) Department of Defense personnel made available to a civilian law enforcement agency under this subsection may operate equipment for the following purposes:
(A) Detection, monitoring, and communication of the movement of air and sea traffic.
(B) Detection, monitoring, and communication of the movement of surface traffic outside of the geographic boundary of the United States and within the United States not to exceed 25 miles of the boundary if the initial detection occurred outside of the boundary.
(C) Aerial reconnaissance.
(D) Interception of vessels or aircraft detected outside the land area of the United States for the purposes of communicating with such vessels and aircraft to direct such vessels and ai
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**(a)** Notwithstanding [section 1342 of title 31](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section1342&num=0&edition=prelim), the Secretary of Defense may accept the gratuitous services of an officer of a reserve component (other than an officer of the Army National Guard of the United States or the Air National Guard of the United States) in consultation upon matters relating to the armed forces.
**(b)** Notwithstanding [section 1342 of title 31](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section1342&num=0&edition=prelim), the Secretary of a military department may accept the gratuitous services of an officer of a reserve component under the Secretary’s jurisdiction (other than an officer of the Army National Guard of the United States or the Air National Guard of the United States)—
(1) in the furtherance of the enrollment, organization, and training of that officer’s reserve component or the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps; or
(2) in consultation upon matters relating to the armed forces.
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**(a) In General.—** The following definitions apply in this title:
(1) The term “United States”, in a geographic sense, means the States and the District of Columbia.
(2) Repealed. Pub. L. 109–163, div. A, title X, § 1057(a)(1), Jan. 6, 2006, 119 Stat. 3440.]
(3) The term “possessions” includes the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Guano Islands, so long as they remain possessions, but does not include any Commonwealth.
(4) The term “armed forces” means the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, and Coast Guard.
(5) The term “uniformed services” means—
(A) the armed forces;
(B) the commissioned corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; and
(C) the commissioned corps of the Public Health Service.
(6) The term “department”, when used with respect to a military department, means the executive part of the department and all field headquarters, forces, reserve components, installations, activities, and functions under the control or supervision of the Secretary of the department. When used with respect to the Department of Defense, such term means the executive part of the department, including the executive parts of the military departments, and all field headquarters, forces, reserve components, installations, activities, and functions under the control or supervision of the Secretary of Defense, including those of the military departments.
(7) The term “executive part of the department” means the executive part of the Department of Defense, Department of the Army, Department of the Navy, or Department of the Air Force, as the case may be, at the seat of government.
(8) The term “military departments” means the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, and the Department of the Air Force.
(9) The term
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**(a)**
(1) Whenever any vessel liable to seizure or examination does not stop on being ordered to do so or on being pursued by an authorized vessel or authorized aircraft which has displayed the ensign, pennant, or other identifying insignia prescribed for an authorized vessel or authorized aircraft, the individual in command or in charge of the authorized vessel or authorized aircraft may, subject to paragraph (2), fire at or into the vessel which does not stop.
(2) Before firing at or into a vessel as authorized in paragraph (1), the individual in command or in charge of the authorized vessel or authorized aircraft shall fire a gun as a warning signal, except that the prior firing of a gun as a warning signal is not required if that individual determines that the firing of a warning signal would unreasonably endanger individuals or property in the vicinity of the vessel to be stopped.
**(b)** The individual in command of an authorized vessel or authorized aircraft and all individuals acting under that individual’s direction shall be indemnified from any penalties or actions for damages for firing at or into a vessel pursuant to subsection (a). If any individual is killed or wounded by the firing, and the individual in command of the authorized vessel or authorized aircraft or any individual acting pursuant to their orders is prosecuted or arrested therefor, they shall be forthwith admitted to bail.
**(c)** A vessel or aircraft is an authorized vessel or authorized aircraft for purposes of this section if—
(1) it is a Coast Guard vessel or aircraft;
(2) it is a surface naval vessel or military aircraft on which one or more members of the Coast Guard are assigned pursuant to [section 379 of title 10](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-ti
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TITLE 10—ARMED FORCES
§ 279
1 See References in Text note below.
(Added Pub. L. 97–86, title IX, § 905(a)(1), Dec. 1,
1981, 95 Stat. 1116, § 377; amended Pub. L. 100–456,
div. A, title XI, § 1104(a), Sept. 29, 1988, 102 Stat.
2045; Pub. L. 110–181, div. A, title X, § 1061, Jan.
28, 2008, 122 Stat. 319; renumbered § 277, Pub. L.
114–328, div. A, title XII, § 1241(a)(2), Dec. 23, 2016,
130 Stat. 2497.)
Editorial Notes
PRIOR PROVISIONS
A prior section 277, act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A
Stat. 14, prohibited discrimination in administering
laws applicable to both Regulars and Reserves, prior to
repeal
by
Pub.
L.
103–337,
div.
A,
title
XVI,
§§ 1661(a)(2)(A), 1691, Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2979, 3026, ef-
fective Dec. 1, 1994. See section 10209 of this title.
AMENDMENTS
2016—Pub. L. 114–328 renumbered section 377 of this
title as this section.
2008—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 110–181, § 1061(1), substituted
‘‘Subject to subsection (c), to the extent’’ for ‘‘To the
extent’’.
Subsecs. (b), (c). Pub. L. 110–181, § 1061(2), added sub-
secs. (b) and (c) and struck out former subsec. (b) which
read as follows: ‘‘An agency to which support is pro-
vided under this chapter is not required to reimburse
the Department of Defense for such support if such sup-
port—
‘‘(1) is provided in the normal course of military
training or operations; or
‘‘(2) results in a benefit to the element of the De-
partment of Defense providing the support that is
substantially equivalent to that which would other-
wise be obtained from military operations or train-
ing.’’
1988—Pub. L. 100–456 amended section generally. Prior
to amendment, section read as follows: ‘‘The Secretary
of Defense shall issue regulations providing that reim-
bursement may be a condition of assi
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