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10 U.S.C. § 655 — Designation of persons having interest in status of a missing member

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10 U.S.C. § 655 — Designation of persons having interest in status of a missing member

**(a)** The Secretary concerned shall, upon the enlistment or appointment of a person in the armed forces, require that the person specify in writing the person or persons, if any, other than that person’s primary next of kin or immediate family, to whom information on the whereabouts and status of the member shall be provided if such whereabouts and status are investigated under chapter 76 of this title. The Secretary shall periodically, and whenever the member is deployed as part of a contingency operation or in other circumstances specified by the Secretary, require that such designation be reconfirmed, or modified, by the member. **(b)** The Secretary concerned shall, upon the request of a member, permit the member to revise the person or persons specified by the member under subsection (a) at any time. Any such revision shall be in writing.

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10 U.S.C. § 1501 — System for accounting for missing persons

**(a) Responsibility for Missing Persons.—** (1) (A) The Secretary of Defense shall designate a single organization within the Department of Defense to have responsibility for Department matters relating to missing persons from past conflicts, including accounting for missing persons and persons whose remains have not been recovered from the conflict in which they were lost. (B) The organization designated under this paragraph shall be a Defense Agency or other entity of the Department of Defense outside the military departments and is referred to in this chapter as the “designated Defense Agency”. (C) The head of the organization designated under this paragraph is referred to in this chapter as the “designated Agency Director”. (2) Subject to the authority, direction, and control of the Secretary of Defense, the responsibilities of the designated Agency Director shall include the following: (A) Policy, control, and oversight of the program established under [section 1509 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section1509&num=0&edition=prelim). (B) Responsibility for accounting for missing persons from past conflicts, including locating, recovering, and identifying missing persons from past conflicts or their remains after hostilities have ceased. (C) Coordination for the Department of Defense with other departments and agencies of the United States on all matters concerning missing persons from past conflicts. (D) Dissemination of appropriate information on the status of missing persons from past conflicts to authorized family members. (E) Establishment of a means for communication between officials of the designated Defense Agency and family members of missing persons from past conflicts, veterans

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10 U.S.C. § 1513 — Definitions

In this chapter: (1) The term “missing person” means— (A) a member of the armed forces on active duty who is in a missing status; or (B) a civilian employee of the Department of Defense or an employee of a contractor of the Department of Defense who serves in direct support of, or accompanies, the armed forces in the field under orders and who is in a missing status. Such term includes an unaccounted for person described in subsection (a) of [section 1509 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section1509&num=0&edition=prelim) who is required by subsection (c) of such section to be considered a missing person. (2) The term “missing status” means the status of a missing person who is determined to be absent in a category of any of the following: (A) Missing. (B) Missing in action. (C) Interned in a foreign country. (D) Captured. (E) Beleaguered. (F) Besieged. (G) Detained in a foreign country against that person’s will. (3) The term “accounted for”, with respect to a person in a missing status, means that— (A) the person is returned to United States control alive; (B) the remains of the person are recovered to the extent practicable and, if not identifiable through visual means as those of the missing person, are identified as those of the missing person by a practitioner of an appropriate forensic science; or (C) credible evidence exists to support another determination of the person’s status. (4) The term “primary next of kin”, in the case of a missing person, means the individual authorized to direct disposition of the remains of the person under [section 1482(c) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section1482/c&num=0&edition=prelim).

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10 U.S.C. § 655 — Designation of persons having interest in

Page 641 TITLE 10—ARMED FORCES § 656 ‘‘(1) Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3), sec- tion 653 of title 10, United States Code, as added by sub- section (a)(1), shall apply to persons who begin under- graduate pilot training, undergraduate navigator train- ing, or undergraduate naval flight officer training, as the case may be, after September 30, 1990. ‘‘(2) Such section shall apply to persons who graduate from the United States Military Academy, the United States Naval Academy, the United States Air Force Academy, and the Coast Guard Academy after Decem- ber 31, 1991, and to persons who satisfactorily complete the academic and military requirements of the Senior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program (provided for in chapter 103 of title 10, United States Code) after De- cember 31, 1991. ‘‘(3) The minimum service requirements provided for such section shall not apply in the case of any person who entered into an agreement with the Secretary con- cerned before October 1, 1990, and who is obligated under the terms of such agreement to serve on active duty for a period less than the applicable period speci- fied in section 653 of such title. ‘‘(4) For purposes of this subsection, the term ‘Sec- retary concerned’ has the meaning given that term in section 101(8) of title 10, United States Code [now 10 U.S.C. 101(a)(9)].’’ [For transfer of authorities, functions, personnel, and assets of the Coast Guard, including the authorities and functions of the Secretary of Transportation relat- ing thereto, to the Department of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see sections 468(b), 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Secu- rity, and the Department of Homeland Security Reor- ganization Plan of November 25, 2002, as modi

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