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10 U.S.C. § 653 — Minimum service requirement for certain flight crew positions
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**(a) Pilots.—** The minimum service obligation of any member who successfully completes training in the armed forces as a pilot shall be 8 years, if the member is trained to fly fixed-wing jet aircraft, or 6 years, if the member is trained to fly any other type of aircraft.
**(b) Navigators and Naval Flight Officers.—** The minimum service obligation of any member who successfully completes training in the armed forces as a navigator or naval flight officer shall be 6 years.
**(c) Definition.—** In this section, the term “service obligation” means the period of active duty or, in the case of a member of a reserve component who completed flight training in an active duty for training status as a member of a reserve component, the period of service in an active status in the Selected Reserve required to be served after—
(1) completion of undergraduate pilot training, in the case of training as a pilot;
(2) completion of undergraduate navigator training, in the case of training as a navigator; or
(3) completion of undergraduate training as a naval flight officer, in the case of training as a naval flight officer.
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**(a) Pilots.—** The minimum service obligation of any member who successfully completes training in the armed forces as a pilot shall be 8 years, if the member is trained to fly fixed-wing jet aircraft, or 6 years, if the member is trained to fly any other type of aircraft.
**(b) Navigators and Naval Flight Officers.—** The minimum service obligation of any member who successfully completes training in the armed forces as a navigator or naval flight officer shall be 6 years.
**(c) Definition.—** In this section, the term “service obligation” means the period of active duty or, in the case of a member of a reserve component who completed flight training in an active duty for training status as a member of a reserve component, the period of service in an active status in the Selected Reserve required to be served after—
(1) completion of undergraduate pilot training, in the case of training as a pilot;
(2) completion of undergraduate navigator training, in the case of training as a navigator; or
(3) completion of undergraduate training as a naval flight officer, in the case of training as a naval flight officer.
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(1) **Sense of Congress** — It is the sense of Congress that the Federal air marshal program is critical to aviation security.
(2) **Limitation on statutory construction** — Nothing in this chapter, including any amendment made by this chapter, shall be construed as preventing the Under Secretary of Transportation for Security from implementing and training Federal air marshals.
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**(a) Bonus Authorized.—** An aviation officer described in subsection (b) who, during the period beginning on January 1, 1989, and ending on December 31, 2018, executes a written agreement to remain on active duty in aviation service for at least one year may, upon the acceptance of the agreement by the Secretary concerned, be paid a retention bonus as provided in this section.
**(b) Covered Officers.—** An aviation officer referred to in subsection (a) is an officer of a uniformed service who—
(1) is entitled to aviation career incentive pay under [section 301a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title37-section301a&num=0&edition=prelim);
(2) is in a pay grade below pay grade O–7;
(3) is qualified to perform operational flying duty; and
(4) has completed any active duty service commitment incurred for undergraduate aviator training or is within one year of completing such commitment.
**(c) Amount of Bonus.—** The amount of a retention bonus paid under this section may not be more than $25,000 for each year covered by the written agreement to remain on active duty.
**(d) Proration.—** The term of an agreement under subsection (a) and the amount of the bonus under subsection (c) may be prorated as long as such agreement does not extend beyond the date on which the officer making such agreement would complete 25 years of aviation service.
**(e) Payment of Bonus.—** Upon the acceptance of a written agreement under subsection (a) by the Secretary concerned, the total amount payable pursuant to the agreement becomes fixed and may be paid by the Secretary in either a lump sum or installments.
**(f) Additional Pay.—** A retention bonus paid under this section is in addition to any other pay and allowances to which an officer is
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TITLE 10—ARMED FORCES
§ 653
tional skill identifiers, and special qualifica-
tion identifiers.
(b) OTHER
PERSONNEL
POLICY
CHANGES.—(1)
Except in a case covered by section 8225 of this
title or by subsection (a), whenever the Sec-
retary of Defense proposes to make a change to
military personnel policies described in para-
graph (2), the Secretary shall, not less than 30
calendar days before such change is imple-
mented, submit to the Committee on Armed
Services of the Senate and the Committee on
Armed Services of the House of Representatives
notice, in writing, of the proposed change.
(2) Paragraph (1) applies to a proposed mili-
tary personnel policy change, other than a pol-
icy change covered by subsection (a), that would
make available to female members of the armed
forces assignment to any of the following that,
as of the date of the proposed change, is closed
to such assignment:
(A) Any type of unit not covered by sub-
section (a).
(B) Any class of combat vessel.
(C) Any type of combat platform.
(Added Pub. L. 109–163, div. A, title V, § 541(a)(1),
Jan. 6, 2006, 119 Stat. 3251; amended Pub. L.
114–92, div. A, title V, § 524, Nov. 25, 2015, 129
Stat. 813; Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII,
§ 809(a), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1840.)
Editorial Notes
REFERENCES IN TEXT
The Military Selective Service Act, referred to in
subsec. (a)(3)(B), is act June 24, 1948, ch. 625, 62 Stat.
604, which was classified principally to section 451 et
seq. of the former Appendix to Title 50, War and Na-
tional Defense, prior to editorial reclassification and
renumbering as chapter 49 (§ 3801 et seq.) of Title 50. For
complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Ta-
bles.
PRIOR PROVISIONS
A prior section 652, added Pub. L. 95–485, title IV,
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