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10 U.S.C. § 136 — Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness

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10 U.S.C. § 136 — Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness

**(a)** There is an Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, appointed from civilian life by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. A person may not be appointed as Under Secretary within seven years after relief from active duty as a commissioned officer of a regular component of an armed force. **(b)** Subject to the authority, direction, and control of the Secretary of Defense, the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness shall perform such duties and exercise such powers as the Secretary of Defense may prescribe in the areas of military readiness, total force management, military and civilian personnel requirements, military and civilian personnel training, military and civilian family matters, exchange, commissary, and nonappropriated fund activities, personnel requirements for weapons support, National Guard and reserve components, and health affairs. **(c)** The Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness takes precedence in the Department of Defense after the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller). **(d)** The Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness is responsible, subject to the authority, direction, and control of the Secretary of Defense, for the monitoring of the operations tempo and personnel tempo of the armed forces. The Under Secretary shall establish, to the extent practicable, uniform standards within the Department of Defense for terminology and policies relating to deployment of units and personnel away from their assigned duty stations (including the length of time units or personnel may be away for such a deployment) and shall establish uniform reporting systems for tracking deployments.

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10 U.S.C. § 138 — Assistant Secretaries of Defense

**(a)** (1) There are 20 Assistant Secretaries of Defense. (2) The Assistant Secretaries of Defense shall be appointed from civilian life by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. **(b)** (1) The Assistant Secretaries shall perform such duties and exercise such powers as the Secretary of Defense may prescribe. (2) (A) One of the Assistant Secretaries is the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict. The principal duty of the Assistant Secretary shall be the overall supervision (including oversight of policy and resources) of special operations activities (as defined in [section 167(k) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section167/k&num=0&edition=prelim)) and low intensity conflict activities of the Department of Defense. The Assistant Secretary is the principal civilian adviser to the Secretary of Defense on special operations and low intensity conflict matters and (after the Secretary and Deputy Secretary) is the principal special operations and low intensity conflict official within the senior management of the Department of Defense. A person may not be appointed as Assistant Secretary within seven years after relief from active duty as a commissioned officer of a regular component of an armed force. Subject to the authority, direction, and control of the Secretary of Defense, the Assistant Secretary shall do the following: (i) Exercise authority, direction, and control of all special-operations peculiar administrative matters relating to the organization, training, and equipping of special operations forces through the administrative chain of command specified in [section 167(f) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid

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10 U.S.C. § 136 — Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel

Page 193 TITLE 10—ARMED FORCES § 136 2017—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 115–91, § 905(a)(1), designated existing provisions as par. (1) and added par. (2). Pub. L. 115–91, § 904(1), inserted at end ‘‘A person may not be appointed as Under Secretary within seven years after relief from active duty as a commissioned officer of a regular component of the armed forces.’’ Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 115–91, § 912(b), inserted ‘‘the du- ties assigned to the Under Secretary in section 2222 of this title and’’ after ‘‘shall perform’’. Subsecs. (d) to (f). Pub. L. 115–91, § 905(a)(2), added subsec. (d) and redesignated former subsecs. (d) and (e) as (e) and (f), respectively. 2011—Subsec. (c)(5). Pub. L. 111–383 substituted ‘‘para- graphs’’ for ‘‘clauses’’. 2003—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 108–136 struck out ‘‘(1)’’ be- fore ‘‘The Under Secretary’’, substituted ‘‘each of the congressional defense committees’’ for ‘‘each congres- sional committee specified in paragraph (2)’’, and struck out par. (2) which read as follows: ‘‘The commit- tees referred to in paragraph (1) are— ‘‘(A) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and ‘‘(B) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Rep- resentatives.’’ 1999—Subsec. (e)(2)(B). Pub. L. 106–65 substituted ‘‘Committee on Armed Services’’ for ‘‘Committee on National Security’’. 1996—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 104–106 designated existing provisions as par. (1), substituted ‘‘each congressional committee specified in paragraph (2) is’’ for ‘‘the Com- mittees on Armed Services and the Committees on Ap- propriations of the Senate and House of Representa- tives are each’’, and added par. (2). 1994—Pub. L. 103–337, § 903(a)(2), substituted ‘‘Under Secretary of Defense (Compt

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